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AE441 Aerospace Systems Design
This is the capstone desing course in the undergraduate Aerospace Engineering curriculum.
This course material is for the Spring 1996 offering of the course. Additional details on this course, design proposals and video records of the flight tests are available by contacting Stephen M. Batill. This page was last updated May 28, 1996.
Design Teams:
Three student design teams participated in this course in the Spring 1996.
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The Plaid Team (a.k.a. They Might be Aeros)
A picture their aircraft, An Airplane formerly known as Hintz.
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The Blue Team (a.k.a. Macho Grande Production)
A picture their aircraft, The Spaero.
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The Gold Team (a.k.a. Flying Time, Ltd.)
A picture their aircraft, The Wormburner.
Some other pictures:
The following illustrate the assembly process for these aircraft. If you review
the schedule for the course you will see that each group had only one week to completely assemble and prepare their aircraft for flight testing.
The preassembly layout for the Wormburner illustrating their "one-piece" fuselage side construction.
The parts and wing assembly for the Spaero.
Parts and assembly of the Airplane formerly known as Hintz .
A "big" picture of the Wormburner during assembly.
Course Personnel
- Instructor:
Stephen M. Batill, Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Rm. 101 Hessert Center, 631-5591, batill.1@nd.edu
- Graduate Teaching Assistants:
- Mr. Richard Sellar, 631-4337,Richard.S.Sellar.1@nd.edu
- Mr. Brett Wujek, 631-9052, Brett.A.Wujek.1@nd.edu
- Mr. Ken Cheung, 631-4338, Ken.C.Cheung.2@nd.edu
- Mr. Marc Stelmack, 631-4329, Marc.A.Stelmack.1@nd.edu
