We were tasked with developing, building and testing balsa wood gliders in order to understand the role the parts on the glider. We used the Aery design software in order to tweak the different dimensions of parts on the glider including but not limited to: the fuselage, wing, stabilizers and nose mass. We were tasked with building a glider to fly long distances in a stable manner that is easily replicable.

In the airfoil project we were tasked with using the NASA Foil Sim software in order to deign an airfoil. After designing our airfoil in the software, we would use the measurements to create wooden profiles of the airfoil(depicted in the picture on the left). After laser-cutting the profiles, we used them to design a foam airfoil(see attached report for pictures). We then tested the airfoils in the wind tunnel and recorded the coefficients of lift and drag. After gathering our data, we compared it against the data the NASA Foil Sim software gave us in the beginning.