ERPL General Meeting Minutes

(02/01/11)

Bunnell Blast:

 Feb 12, 2011

ERPL/ERFEDS Club Activity:

Planed to be on the 26^th of February

Outside McKay Courts

L3CompanyTour:

                The tour is planned to take place on March 8th

Team Updates:

                Flight hybrids:

Will be working on the airbrake soon

                Exp. Hybrids:

 Split up into two teams to design motor and will compare designs on thursda

                Liquids:

               

    Plasma:

Switching direction to a new design for the engine

                Solids:

 Aerospike: Trying to get aerospike points plotted into CATIA

                                Strand Burner:

 

Notes:

Presentation: Propulsion used on ICBMs by Alex

ULA launching test vehicle on march 4^th: ATLAS V

Upcoming Shuttle/Delta Launches

 

ERPL General Meeting Minutes

(01/18/11)

 

Urgent News:  Volunteers needed for club fair 01/25/11 8am-3pm

ERPL/ERFSEDS Club Activity:

                Do we have enough money to afford food for a BBQ?

                Dodgeball and Frisbee

                The BBQ will be outside McKay courts

L3 Company Tour:

                The original tour plans fell through, but Jon is working to get ERPL in for a different tour at a different date.

                New Sign up sheet for L3 Company tour Speak to jon C.

Team Updates:

Hyrbids:

 -Hybrids will be splitting up into two teams: Flight Hybrids and Experimental Hybrids.

 -Experimental Hybrid Motor Design will be taking place this semester.

- Hyrbid competition is around April 20^th

             -Hybrids meeting: Thursday january 20^th, LB 182-B (Student Projects Lab) 6:00 pm

Solids:

-Members will have the opportunity to mix chemicals together to make your own fuel grains and igniters

-Working on airspike nossel ( More fuel efficient nossel ) that will keep constant thrust at all altitudes

            -Working on a Strand burner

-Solids meeting: Wednesday 5:30pm, LB 182B

Liquids:

Sr. Design Test Work:

                                Possible plans to launch EV-1

                                Looking for help to set up tests for EV-1 doing “grunt work”

             LB 273 Aquila design team 10:30AM M, W, F   

 

Plasma: 

-Plasma meeting: Thursdays 5:00pm LB 170

Breakthrough: 

-Breakthrough meetings: Friday 6:00pm LB 170

 

Other News:

Kris Gaffey has been elected to become to new treasurer.

            Kris Gaffey demonstrated his prototype airbrake for Black Mamba

            Would club members be interested in having guest speakers come to the meetings?