Success of Warsaw students in the competition in the U.S.
Warsaw University of Technology students won three medals in the competition SAE Aero Design East in Atlanta in the U.S. state of Georgia. The aircraft they built won medals in each of the three competition categories.
The international SAE Aero Design competition, organised since 1986, attracts students of aeronautical engineering at technical universities around the world. The event is held annually in the U.S., and divided into two editions - East and West. The task of young engineers is to design, build and fly a remote-controlled cargo aircraft model. The winners are the team, whose aircraft lifts the heaviest payload - with a minimum own weight of the model. Aircrafts compete in three classes: Micro, Regular and Advanced.
In SAE Aero Design East, finished on 13 April in Marietta near Atlanta, Georgia, Poland was represented by students of Warsaw University of Technology, members of SAE Collegiate Club at the Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering.
Students from Warsaw had the greatest success in the Regular class, ranking first in the overall standings. Regular class is a competition in which the objective is to lift the heaviest payload, but it has to be loaded onto the plane in one minute.
Warsaw students won second place the in the Micro class, in which small aircrafts compete, usually powered by electric motors, by very small internal combustion engines. The team from Warsaw took the third place in the Advanced class. This is the competition of powerful flying machines, with a wingspan of over 3 meters, equipped with multiple engines. The plane lifts the payload and dumps it at a fixed location.
"Our work on the aircrafts begins in September and ends in late April. Over just eight months we build our unmanned aircrafts from scratch. During this time, we design all their aerodynamics, as it is done with professional designs, we create structural design, and then build a few aircrafts in each category" - said Vice President of SAE Collegiate Club Adam Tomaszewski.
Students from the Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering compete since 1991, and participated in the competition is the main aspect of SAE Collegiate Club activity. In last year\'s competition, they were the first team in the history of Aero Design West to take the three first places in the overall standings in all three aircraft classes.
In the West edition of the competition, which was held in March 2014 in the state of Texas, Poland was represented by students of Wrocław University of Technology. Polish aircraft "Drop" outclassed rivals in the Micro class.
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