Students today continued the process of Iterative Design, testing their prototypes and observing their flight paths in terms of pitch, roll, and yaw. Then, based on recorded data, students made inferences as to what could be causing their gliders to fly off-course, along with hypotheses about what modifications might remedy it.
Students altered the structural components of the airfoil, manipulated the weight distribution along the fuselage, and altered the configuration of the elevon and rudder flight controllers.
The ultimate objective was straight, steady, sustained flight. But next week, students will need to use their data to modify their crafts on-the-spot to perform "trick" maneuvers and "land" with the closest proximity to a target.
Students altered the structural components of the airfoil, manipulated the weight distribution along the fuselage, and altered the configuration of the elevon and rudder flight controllers.
The ultimate objective was straight, steady, sustained flight. But next week, students will need to use their data to modify their crafts on-the-spot to perform "trick" maneuvers and "land" with the closest proximity to a target.