SPONSORSHIP BROCHURE15/16

OUR TEAMEST 2014

Founded in 2014, with the aim to comepete in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ Design Build Fly competition, the University of Glasgow’s Design Build Fly team’s first competition was in Tucson, Arizona. Being our first competition there were a lot of unknowns, but our willingness to learn and expand is what helped the team achieve a report score of 92.5% ranking 12th out of 100 entrants and a final rank of 19th.

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ENGINEERINGAERODYNAMICSMECHATRONICSPROPULSIONSTRUCTURES

THECHALLENGEAIAA DBF 2016THE PLANE WITHIN THE PLANE

Organized anually by the American Insititute of Aeronautics and Astronuatics, the AIAA DBF is a prestigious competition that aims at

gathering students from all over the globe to give them a chance to test and showcase their engineering capabilities.

Held in Wichita, Kansas, this year’s competion is nothing like last year. The challenge lies in designing, building, testing and then flying two aircraft in

time for the competition.

One of the aircraft must be able to carry the other internally with the lowest possible weight and number of sub-assemblies. The internally carried aircraft must then be assembled and fly a payload of its own, a 32 oz.

bottle.

This will test the team’s management, technical abilities and resourcefullness to its maximum.

17 -19 AprilWichita,KS

Following last year’s success, expansion was one of the team’s main future goals. Deteremined to improve over last year’s performance the team is

now larger, with 23 members from across different engineering and non-engineering discpilines. It is also important to note that the members

range fromt undergraduate to postgraduate levels.

The team faces many challenges this year including the need to manufacture two aircraft instead of just one and having to do so in a short

period of 6 months.

Equipped with the technical knowledge and engineering skills, the team aim to achieve outstanding results by sharing this knowledge.

TIMELINESEP’15 TO APR’16

Sep Oct Nov Dec

recruitment

conceptual design

preliminary design

This project would fuction as it should

without a good team, and that’s why we look for self-motivated team

members who are willing to take intiative and learn

from the project

design proposal

Coming up with the opitmal design isn’t all about

engineering, it’s also about following the competition’s rules which makes design

even more challenging. Devising a strategy is also

part of it as the ultimate goal is to achieve the highest

possible score

After all the necessary planning and strategy is

set, the conceptual design must be refined to ensure

its suitability for the missions and confirm its

feasibilty. This is when the design starts taking shape,

taking one step closer towards being applied

The first qualifying stage is the design proposal which all teams have to submit to the competition’s oraganizers. It contains a summary of the team’s management and

design. Submitting a sucessful proposal qualifies the team for the next stage

SEP’15 TO APR’16

MarFebJanDec Apr

detailed design

prototype flyoffBecause no idea is perfect,

building prototypes is essential to put the

developed theory to the test. Building a prototype is

crucial as it helps team refine the design, enhancing its

preformance and improving and increasing the chances of acheiving higher scores

This is when the idea starts actually taking shape, every

element of the design is carefully considered to carry out the task as effeciently as

possible. The result is an elaborate design with a

manufacturing schedule that gives time to build, test then refine the design as needed.

designreport

The last milestone before the flyoff, the design report

which is detailed documentation of the design

proccess from the conception of the aircraft up

to its exection and manufacturing. It is crucial to score high on the report as it determines the team’s rank

in the flight queue in addition to being part of the final

score

Taking place between the 17th and 19th of April in

Wichita, Kansas , the flyoff is the real challenge and the

ultimate test for the design.

PAST AND CURRENT SPONSORS

SPONSORS&EXPENSES

49%flights26%

accomodation

15%material

10%tools

15/16 BUDGET

SCORES&NUMBERS

92.5%_Report Score 12/100 _Report Ranking

2000_man hours to build8000_kilometers travelled

19/85 _Final Ranking

14_battery packs used*4_servos

2.3_kilogram payload0.9_kilogram power system1.2_kilogram aircraft

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SOCIALMEDIA

Documenting and sharing our project is very important to us. Our social media accounts are there to update our followers and let them know what’s happening. Our mission is not only to learn but to spread the knowledge and get people interested in aerospace.

SPONSORHSIPPACKAGES

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person

transonic£250

hyperson

logo on:aircraftbannerwebsitefacebooktwitterinstagramt-shirt

& product placement

rsonic £500transonic

£250

sonic £800+

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we accept both financial and material support as our aim is to

produce the best possible aircraft and experience for our team

members.

University of Glasgow Design Build Fly

James Watt South BuildingUniversity of GlasgowGlasgow, UKG12 8QQ

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