CLIPPER SPIRIT WING CLASSIFICATION
Aerospace Engineering
TEAM 1465 PROJECT SUMMARY
Class AME 420A/422A
Sponsor New Nose Company (NNC)
Sponsor Mentor/Advisor Charles Simpson Edward Kerschen
Project Mentor Charles Simpson
Team Members Daniel Gorin Gabrielle Debbins Daniel Lusher Ben Silvertooth Henrique Muniz Alves AE = Aerospace Engineering
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The goal of this project was to analyze and test the wing of New Nose Company's seaplane, the Clipper Spirit. Testing included assessing the viability of an aileron droop on the wing design. The aileron droop was tested at multiple angles of attack to gather a wide data set. The wing was scaled down to a model that would fit in a wind tunnel. The model was tested in the AME subsonic student wind tunnel and analyzed to find the engineering constants of the wing. The model was tested under conditions and circumstances that matched as closely as possible the actual flight conditions experienced by the full-scale wing. The team built the model using rough material and applied boundary layer trips to induce turbulent flow around the airfoil. The turbulent flow was induced to artificially create the conditions of the high Reynolds number expected during flight conditions. The Reynolds number was simulated because the wind tunnel does not achieve actual flight speeds and a constant air density. This allowed the team to gather and analyze data that represented an actual flight of the wing, and to determine the engineering constants of the wing, such as the coefficients of drag, lift, and pitching moment.
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