AIAA University of Minnesota Chapter

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Student Level

● Networking● Tours● Paper Conferences● Outreaching Events● Host for Recruitment

Opportunities● Projects

RC Plane Project

Objectives● Become familiar with the components that make up

R.C. planes● Gain the piloting skills needed to successfully take

off/land solo● Apply material learned in class to R.C. planes

– Improving upon designs, observing stall characteristics, etc.

RC Plane Project

Methods● “Buddy Box” system ● Computer Simulator

RC Plane Project

Future Projects● Fly Larger Scale Planes● Competitions● FPV Streaming● Building Kit Planes

CanSat 2012CanSat is a Design Build Fly

Competition

that reflects a typical aerospace system.

Mission : The Mission is to Launch an autonomous CanSat that consists of large hen’s egg and should be deployed at an 470 to 650m altitude, once deployed you should have a decent system that could reduce the decent rate to 10m/s and 5m/s at 91meters eventually.

CanSat 2013

Midwest Paper Conference 2014

– Aerospace Midwest Paper conferecne– From : April 2nd – April 4th

– Location : University of Minnesota Twincities

– Deadlines for Abstracts Feb 2nd week– Excellent Opportunity to publish your

research, meet the aerospace companies, take tours in the aerospace department labs(National hypersonic labs, UAV labs, Control systems Labs, Wind tunnel and many more labs.