Aircraft

Ultra Stick 25e

  • Wing Span: 1.27 m
  • Wing Area: 0.31 m^2
  • Mass: 1.96 kg
  • General purpose research vehicle, easy to launch and land, adaptable airframe, well studied aerodynamic properties.

Ultra Stick 120

  • Wing Span: 1.92 m
  • Wing Area: 0.77 m^2
  • Mass: 7.41 kg
  • General purpose research vehicle suitable for larger payloads and faster airspeeds. Well studied aerodynamic properties.

mAEWing 1

  • Wing Span: 3.048 m (10 feet)
  • Wing Area: 1.05 m^2
  • Mass: 6.38 kg
  • Purpose built airframe for studying body freedom flutter and flutter suppression strategies.

mAEWing2

  • Wing Span: 4.27 m (14 feet)
  • Wing Area: (?) m^2
  • Mass: 16.5 kg
  • Phase 2 purpose built airframe for studying body freedom flutter and flutter suppression strategies. This is a 1/2 scale X-56 built to exact scale outlines.

X-UAV Talon

  • Wing Span: 2 m
  • Wing Area: 0.7 m^2
  • Mass: 3.0 kg
  • Not just another talon. Built as a dusk-time fully-autonomous flying-insect interceptor (with night lighting and retractable insect traps) for a cooperative project with the Department of Entomology.

Sentera Vireo

  • Wing Span: 0.97 m
  • Wing Area: 0.21 m^2
  • Mass: 1.28 kg
  • Originally this was a prototype for Sentera's hand launchable precision ag survey platform. It was donated to the university by Sentera. This aircraft served as the flight test platform for our 2nd generation flight controller, Goldy II, as well as supporting research into robust flight control algorithms that can handle failed control surfaces.