Design Build Fly

Background

Design Build Fly is an annual international competition hosted by AIAA and Cessna/Raytheon. The goal is to design and build a plane that abides by the year's rules while also performing the best at the competition. The competition will take place in Wichita, Kansas in mid-April. This year the theme of the competition is to build an aerial advertising plane. Specific requirements include being able to deploy, carry, and release a large banner and carry passengers with their luggage.

Goal and Objectives

The team's goal is to place top 3 at the flight competition this April. The plane has been designed to meet the following competition criteria:

- Have a maximum wingspan of 5ft

- The aircraft must fly with the banner deployment, towing and release mechanism(s) installed for all missions 

- The deployable banner must have a minimum length of 10 inches and a maximum aspect ratio (length/height) of 5

- Have a takeoff length of 20 feet for two Missions

- Securely carry passengers and their luggage in an upright position

- Propulsion system to have a maximum capacity of 200 Watt-hours

2019-2020 Team Members

James Bechler, Chief Engineer (jbechler@uci.edu)

Andrew Reuter, Project Manager (arreuter@uci.edu)

Melody Emmanouilidi

Kelsey Cruz

Will Mrdjenovich

Robert Laviguer

Grant Tsuji

Max Floyd

Kendrick Barefield

Suleyman Varlibas

Ethan Kropp

Chad Tuley

Patrick Turpin

Heath Muskat

Project Advisers

Professor Robert Liebeck (rliebeck@uci.edu)

Colin Sledge (csledge@uci.edu)

Joseph Hsiegh

Paul Parcel

Nathan Yeung

Marlon Sevilla