About the Competition

Every year, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) arranges a Design, Build, Fly (DBF) competition where students are allowed to use their conceptual knowledge in aircraft design and gain real-world experience in designing and flying their designed aircraft.

This year, the objective is to design, build, and test an airplane to demonstrate Urban Air Mobility (UAM) missions. Flight missions will include delivery of the airplane, medical transport, and urban taxi.

For more details, visit the website: AIAA Design/Build/Fly | AIAA 

Rules and Regulations

Major Accomplishments

• We are the only team representing Bangladesh in this International Competition.
  
  

• Our team secured 2nd Position among the teams participated from South Asia and 4th among the Asian Teams.
  
  

• The report prepared the team secured them 58th position among the 110 teams participating in the competition.
  
  

• Among the 107 teams participating in the Fly-off, our team secured 71st Position. 
  
  

• The unique design features of our designed aircraft AKASHTORI specially the concept of the mechanism of wing folding piqued the interest of many international teams and the officials in the competition.
  
  

• Following the tradition of participating in this competition, our team is the 3rd team from our university to attend the fly-off and attend the competition physically in the United States.
  
  

• Our achievement has been shared by many international newspapers including The Daily Star, The Prothom Alo and Protidiner Bangladesh.