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Explore the builds, experiments and research recorded by the club.
Aircraft design
Designing the club's next aircraft from first sketch to flight: a mini glider and UAV, a more efficient wing developed with CAD and CFD, and a VTOL airframe.
Flight control & stability
Making aircraft fly steadily on their own: sensor-based auto-stabilisation, fly-by-wire and fly-by-light control links, an AI-assisted autopilot, and flight-dynamics simulation in MATLAB/Simulink.
Propulsion systems
What makes aircraft go, and how to make it better: electric and hybrid propulsion for drones and planes, micro jet engine study and testing, efficiency measurements on small engines, and quieter propellers.
Materials & structures
Lighter, stronger airframes: composites such as carbon and glass fibre, wing load testing with sensors, smart materials like shape-memory alloys, and structural health monitoring with fibre optics.
Avionics & communication
The electronics on board and the link to the ground: an augmented-reality cockpit display, RF and satellite air-to-ground communication, air traffic control simulation, and a flight data recorder prototype.
Unmanned aerial vehicles
Drones that fly themselves: autonomous path planning, swarm communication between drones, a delivery drone with vertical lift and wing-borne cruise, and obstacle avoidance with LiDAR or stereo cameras.
Green aviation
Flying cleaner: a solar-powered UAV, fuel-cell propulsion, tracking the carbon footprint of flights, and lightweight airframe materials that save energy.
Aerodynamics
How air flows over wings, and how to make it work for us: wind tunnel tests of new airfoils, CFD studies of lift and drag, boundary-layer control, and supersonic flow analysis.