UG DBF '15/'16 Sponsorship Brochure
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Transcript of UG DBF '15/'16 Sponsorship Brochure
OUR TEAMEST 2014
Founded in 2014, with the aim to comepete in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ Design Build Fly competition, the University of Glasgow’s Design Build Fly team’s first competition was in Tucson, Arizona. Being our first competition there were a lot of unknowns, but our willingness to learn and expand is what helped the team achieve a report score of 92.5% ranking 12th out of 100 entrants and a final rank of 19th.
THECHALLENGEAIAA DBF 2016THE PLANE WITHIN THE PLANE
Organized anually by the American Insititute of Aeronautics and Astronuatics, the AIAA DBF is a prestigious competition that aims at
gathering students from all over the globe to give them a chance to test and showcase their engineering capabilities.
Held in Wichita, Kansas, this year’s competion is nothing like last year. The challenge lies in designing, building, testing and then flying two aircraft in
time for the competition.
One of the aircraft must be able to carry the other internally with the lowest possible weight and number of sub-assemblies. The internally carried aircraft must then be assembled and fly a payload of its own, a 32 oz.
bottle.
This will test the team’s management, technical abilities and resourcefullness to its maximum.
17 -19 AprilWichita,KS
Following last year’s success, expansion was one of the team’s main future goals. Deteremined to improve over last year’s performance the team is
now larger, with 23 members from across different engineering and non-engineering discpilines. It is also important to note that the members
range fromt undergraduate to postgraduate levels.
The team faces many challenges this year including the need to manufacture two aircraft instead of just one and having to do so in a short
period of 6 months.
Equipped with the technical knowledge and engineering skills, the team aim to achieve outstanding results by sharing this knowledge.
TIMELINESEP’15 TO APR’16
Sep Oct Nov Dec
recruitment
conceptual design
preliminary design
This project would fuction as it should
without a good team, and that’s why we look for self-motivated team
members who are willing to take intiative and learn
from the project
design proposal
Coming up with the opitmal design isn’t all about
engineering, it’s also about following the competition’s rules which makes design
even more challenging. Devising a strategy is also
part of it as the ultimate goal is to achieve the highest
possible score
After all the necessary planning and strategy is
set, the conceptual design must be refined to ensure
its suitability for the missions and confirm its
feasibilty. This is when the design starts taking shape,
taking one step closer towards being applied
The first qualifying stage is the design proposal which all teams have to submit to the competition’s oraganizers. It contains a summary of the team’s management and
design. Submitting a sucessful proposal qualifies the team for the next stage
SEP’15 TO APR’16
MarFebJanDec Apr
detailed design
prototype flyoffBecause no idea is perfect,
building prototypes is essential to put the
developed theory to the test. Building a prototype is
crucial as it helps team refine the design, enhancing its
preformance and improving and increasing the chances of acheiving higher scores
This is when the idea starts actually taking shape, every
element of the design is carefully considered to carry out the task as effeciently as
possible. The result is an elaborate design with a
manufacturing schedule that gives time to build, test then refine the design as needed.
designreport
The last milestone before the flyoff, the design report
which is detailed documentation of the design
proccess from the conception of the aircraft up
to its exection and manufacturing. It is crucial to score high on the report as it determines the team’s rank
in the flight queue in addition to being part of the final
score
Taking place between the 17th and 19th of April in
Wichita, Kansas , the flyoff is the real challenge and the
ultimate test for the design.
SCORES&NUMBERS
92.5%_Report Score 12/100 _Report Ranking
2000_man hours to build8000_kilometers travelled
19/85 _Final Ranking
14_battery packs used*4_servos
2.3_kilogram payload0.9_kilogram power system1.2_kilogram aircraft
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google.com/+ugdbfuk
flickr.com/ugdbf
SOCIALMEDIA
Documenting and sharing our project is very important to us. Our social media accounts are there to update our followers and let them know what’s happening. Our mission is not only to learn but to spread the knowledge and get people interested in aerospace.
SPONSORHSIPPACKAGES
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person
transonic£250
hyperson
logo on:aircraftbannerwebsitefacebooktwitterinstagramt-shirt
& product placement
rsonic £500transonic
£250
sonic £800+
bannerwebsitefacebooktwitter
bannerwebsitefacebooktwittert-shirt
we accept both financial and material support as our aim is to
produce the best possible aircraft and experience for our team
members.
University of Glasgow Design Build Fly
James Watt South BuildingUniversity of GlasgowGlasgow, UKG12 8QQ