Fixed-Wing Glider Performance Modeling & Flight Validation

My team and I were tasked with fabricating and designing a Glider for our Aerospace Vehicles lab. The glider had to contain a device that would take pictures and record data of the flight. We had to make a program which would predict how far our glider would go and allow us to make design changes in order to optimize our flight path, giving us the best distance. Using our program, I designed the glider in CAD and we used our lab laser to cut out stencils which we used to aid us in our accuracy.