February Additional Blog Post

This month I haven't done too much revolving around my senior project. I did start the construction of the rest of my airplane. It is what I am doing for the second component. The rest of the aircraft is basically just more complex forms of how you constructed the wings. There is lots if aesthetics that also need to be installed like the cockpit and decals. This plane is also designed to be adapted into an rc aircraft I recently discovered. So I am trying to find a way to get ahold of the necessary components to get it powered and flyable. I would post pictures but I am in the middle of the desert right now riding motorcycles and I barely have enough reception to post this.

Blog 16: Answer 2

1. What is your EQ?

What is the best way to decrease drag and increase fuel economy in aircraft?

2. What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

By implementing a blended wing body design, an aircraft can produce lift at all points decreasing the effect of drag.

3. What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

By using the box tail design of the Synergy aircraft, the structure of a plane can have reduced vortex drag allowing for more distance on less fuel.

4. List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

1. Vortex drag forms at the wingtips, the box tail alters the wingtips. Commercial aircraft.

2. Allows for efficient and fast flight, because the double box tail would reduce the drag greatly at high speeds. The Synergy Aircraft itself. 

3. It takes the basic idea of a biplane, but instead of the negative penalties that result from that design, by shaping it how it is, it forces those drags to be reduced causing them to benefit the aircraft. This can be used in small personal aircraft.

5. What printed source best supports your answer?

Jahanmiri, Mohsen. "Aircraft Drag Reduction" Chalmers University of Technology. Print. 

6. What other source supports your answer?

The Synergy Aircraft website, synergyaircraft.com 

7. Tie this together with a concluding thought.

There is a high probability that a red dwarf star passed through our solar system's Oort cloud a long time ago meaning another star pit stopped in our system. That is pretty cool, space is cool. 

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

1. For my 30 hours, I plan to finish the construction of my RC plane. Since for the first time I was able to get the wings done on the plane, this time I will finish constructing the body and add the motor and propellers to try and get it to fly.

2. To meet the 30 hours of work I will have to manually construct the whole body of the plane, if it is anything like the wings, it will take a lot of precision and time to finish the body. Another big part of it will be figuring out how I can convert it into a flyable RC craft. This will require a lot of research and effort to get it done. 

3. This will help me explore my topic more in depth because I will start learning actual applications of the aerodynamics I have been learning. This will also help me understand more the concept of thrust and how motors and engine give the forward motion that allows the airplanes to produce lift and fly.

Independent Component 1

LITERAL

(a)  “I, Kade Peich, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 31 hours of work.”

(b) Well, my first interviewee recommended I look into RC planes and such to get a better understanding of aerospace engineering. This led me to watch lots of YouTube videos, especially from a channel called Jason Anderson, but I ultimately did not have one particular book or source that I followed. If I had to choose it would be the YouTube channel Jason Anderson, however.

(d) I completed the acquisition of the P51 Mustang prelasercut balsa wood kit, despite my original plans to build from scratch which proved near impossible for the style I wanted to achieve. After acquiring it and researching all about airfoils and their aerodynamic importance, I began to piece together the wings of the craft. This allowed me to visually understand the structure of aircraft wings, which are the most important part of the craft and how they fly. This gave me a much better understanding of how the airfoil's affect wing shape and how that affects the aircraft. 

INTERPRETIVE 

My work was very related to my senior project because many of the few engineers I have talked to noted that RC is a very good way to get introduced to the basic mechanics of engineering. By creating this wing I have began to understand just how important the wing shape is and how it is manipulated at the structural level before becoming a full structure. I have also learned that they are often hollow and this allows for a reduction in other aerodynamic forces, like weight. Ultimately, this project was very tedious because of all the set backs I had, and the wing is not one solid piece it is hundreds of little wood pieces connected together then covered (you can kinda see it in one of the pictures) and requires a lot of precision gluing. It also has given me a glimpse of what to expect in an aeronautical industry.

        (This is actually my cousins hand, too hard a picture to take one handed but it looks cool)

(The glue I came to love)

(My workstation)

APPLIED

This helped me understand the foundation of my topic better because, as I have said earlier, it showed me the basic structure of wings. It led me to understand how important the wing's are in creating a solid aircraft that can be used commercially or privately. Like for example, I have been reading a lot about Bernoulli's principle and how the shape of an airfoil affects this, but with this I got to actually see small scale airfoils and how they are used to shape a wing to produce lift. Basically, all of the things I have been learning about wings I got to apply by creating a small scale one.