senior desgin

Hello another School post. the senior aero design project for AA at the UW is possibly one of the best funded in the country. things being a little tight this year we have a total of only 40 to 50 thousand dollars to spend on it. oh by the way this is only half of the 40 or so students that make up the senior class the other half are in space design. that's around two thousand dollars a student. and that is just for hard ware and some services. a lot more time and services get donated. this year the class has been tasked with building a quite, modern version of the concord. a super sonic passenger jet that sits 100 people and will not have landing restrictions like the concord did because it was so loud. we build a scale model of course not the real plane. the model should weigh 20 lbs or so when done be about 8 feet long and have a 5 to 6 foot wing span. It will be powered by a model turbo jet engine sucking real A1 Jet fuel. producing about 18 lbs of thrust.
I am the CAD (computer aided drafting) team leader we get/have to learn Unigraphics and produce multiple virtual models for the aero group to test. they run the model through CFD (computational fluid dynamics)program once the aero group is happy with the model it gets sent to the pros and they make a wind tunnel test model per our drawing to be tested in the big wind tunnel on campus. big is about 8 by 12 by 15 feet test section wind speed of up to 200 miles an hour. The whole tunnel is housed in its own building its pretty cool. oh did I mention that the final drawings need to be sent out in about 5 weeks. I will be so busy but it is kind of cool at the same time. I will try and post a short vid of the 2006 plane in flight.