Heavy Lift Cargo Plane 2009

Group 6

The Group with the Final  Plane

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Senior Design is a two (2) semester course taken by seniors with the intent of giving students the opportunity to gain experience with real-life engineering projects. In ME 423, the students focused on the design and technical analyses of their projects. The main focus of ME 424 is on the building and testing of the students’ prototypes. As in ME 423, the following students: Summer Hamilton, Bethany Rankie, Melissa Rhode, and Samantha Strimpler, have formed a team to design and construct a heavy lift cargo plane.

The main objective of the Heavy Lift Cargo Plane project was to design, build and fly a modular, radio-controlled aircraft that is capable of carrying an optimized payload while keeping the entire weight under fifty-five (55) pounds; in addition, the vehicle was developed to meet dimensional and flight constraints.  In order to accomplish this task, the team established a set of requirements by which completion of the project would adhere, the requirements chosen by the team matched those set forth by the SAE Aero Design Competition held in Marietta, Georgia in April 2009. The team had planned on competing in the Regular Class Competition, but due to an overbooking of the competition, the team was unable to attend. The designs, calculation, and analyses contained within this document however support the SAE requirements for the Regular Class; in addition, the included information is laid out in a way that demonstrates the processes and steps taken to complete the vehicle, from start to finish.