Design Build Fly is a student competition sponsored by AIAA, Cessna, and the Office of Naval Research. Student teams will design, fabricate, and demonstrate the flight capabilities of an unmanned, electric powered, radio controlled aircraft to accomplish a certain mission. The location of the contest rotates between Kansas and Maryland. This year it’s in Maryland. One third of the team members must be freshmen, sophomores, or juniors.

UPDATES AND NEWS

1/25/04 - -Friday 3:30-5:30? 0006 Link; Manufacturing Carbon Fiber wing spars, No previous experience needed; anyone is welcome to come.
Sat 11:00 AM- 4:00 PM Making of full size wing. No previous experience needed; anyone is welcome to come.

Just so all of you know Aero team and Structures teams have joined in this last section of the project so aeros can help out with structures stuff since that’s all that’s left other than propulsions.

1/23/05 – Welcome to a new semester! This is the final push to get the Orange Knight up and flying. We will need everyone and anyone that is willing to help. Click here for the meeting minutes of the General Body meeting that occurred on December 12, 2004. More updates soon.

11/17/04 – Carlos finished the code and has done a preliminary report on it. Click here to view it in word format.

11/17/04 - Okay so Saturday we will go flying we'll meet at college place at 11:30 and leave at 11:50. There is a 30% chance of rain in random areas with a high of 44 degrees. WE NEED RIDES IF YOU CAN COAKS A FRIEND INTO GOING PLEASE DO AND LET ME KNOW!! YOU AND THE DRIVER WILL BE REWARDED WITH ALOT OF FLYING TIME!

We'll be doing the following things with the folowing planes if we can get enough transportation:

Big Mac Truck Glider (Venno's Plane)

Flight Data Recorder (measures speed altitude and servo positions)

Video Camera (we have a video camera in it for real time video)

Durabat (DBF's plane)

Stunt flying

DBF Trainer (DBF's Plane)

Training

Ferrari (Venno's Plane)

Trainer

Pat's Trainer (Pat's Plane)

Training

ME 109 Park Flier (Venno's Plane)

Park Flier

If you want to go please RSVP no later than Friday at 10:00PM and also check your e-mail before you leave just incase we need to last minute cancel

THanks

Venno

Call me if you have qs

201-233-8977

or im me

Venno1

11/17/04 – Major update…a little late but it’s been done

11/14/04 – First General meeting for DBF since new organizational format of group. Click here for the meeting minutes

11/11/04 - I have updated the page, however, I will be out of town from Friday to Sunday so I will not be able to update it before Sunday night. I apologize for the inconvenience but check late Sunday night and I should have everything up properly. Thanks

11/10/04 – Major updates on webpage. Changed the format to make it more user-friendly.

11/01/04 – There will be a meeting this Thursday November 4, 2004 at 7:30pm in Link 142. It will be mainly about wing placement figures of merit. Everyone is welcome but it is not mandatory. However, TEAM LEADERS must attend and be prepared for the discussion.

10/31/04 – Updates in Propulsions and Structures

10/28/04 – The votes have been counted and the new plane name is: The Orange Knight Thanks to all that voted. We’ll send registration information, along with the name, to the contest administrator and officially enter our plane into the competition.

10/28/04 – Ongoing updated: Propulsions meeting minutes, Structures team results on testing of wing.

10/27/04 – Structures meeting this Friday. Click here for more info.

10/26/04 – We need to come up with a name for the plane by the end of this week (10/29). Here are the suggestions that have been sent to me by email:

· The Orange Phoenix

· Titan

· The Wright Stuff

· The Orange Project

· Otto’s Barnstormer

· SU Skyrocket

· The Orange Knight

· Orange Oblivion

· Triple X

· The Orange Transformation

· Project X-SU

Send an email to vfburgos@syr.edu with your two choices for a name and we will announce the name by the end of this week. Also, please send me your IM names so that we can add those to the roster.

10/26/04 – Ongoing updated; Propulsions meeting on Wednesday @ 5pm. Click for more info.

10/21/04 – More Updates; roster up and video of release mechanism

10/18/04 - Site has been updated. I will be posting things more often here so check back for information on whats going on with the DBF. Furthermore, we plan to post meeting minutes, deadlines, rosters, and other DBF related stuff.