NC State University Aerospace Senior Design 2008-2009
This video is a compilation of multiple launches and a few landings of Optikos, an unmanned surveillance aircraft. As a tailless vehicle flyin...
NC State University Aerospace Senior Design 2008-2009
This video is a compilation of multiple launches and a few landings of Optikos, an unmanned surveillance aircraft. As a tailless vehicle flying at low Reynolds numbers, it posed several unique challenges for the team. Students (in teams of 7-8) worked the fall semester to design and do computational analysis to predict performance, and have spent the spring semester building and testing critical components en route to a series of flight tests to determine stability, control, performance, and safety characteristics. The end goal is to obtain certification from the instructor that the aircraft is flyable in a public setting, building to an end flight at the Senior Design Picnic.
The launcher is a custom design which accelerates the aircraft to 39 fps in less than 6 feet.
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