COSMOS RC Plane

Background:
This post will be pretty brief, since I didn’t take any photos of the building process for the plane, and also am too lazy to write much after spending a month at COSMOS. The plane is built out of foam, and my group and I designed it completely from scratch, choosing the fuselage shape, the wing shapes, as well as the airfoils used. We were trying to imitate the agile f-18 hornet, and you can probably tell from the layout of the wings. As a whole, this was a super fun project to build, but the 6 hours spent doing wing-loading calculations at 1am were not…

Flight test of our plane! We were actually pretty surprised at how well it flew…