Description
With our project, we aim to design, build and fly a fixed-wing tilt-rotor VTOL aircraft. But what does this mean, in simple terms?
VTOL
Fixed-wing
Tilt-rotor
Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft are aircraft that can take-off, hover and land verticallly.
Fixed wing aircraft are aircraft that have a rigid wing for horizintal flight.
Tilt-rotor aircraft have motors or engines mounted on rotating shafts at the end of a fixed wing.
Vision
What is the goal of your project?
We aim to fulfil a number of goals progressively:
- Design of the aircraft and subsystems
- Run simulation on the aircraft and subsystem models
- Construction & testing of subsystems
- Construction, assembly & testing of aircraft
- Achieve stable vertical flight
- Achieve stable horizontal flight
- Achieve successful transition from vertical to horizontal flight