Design, Build, Fly Club Places 23rd in International Competition

Design, Build, Fly team members at the competition are (front) Zachary Fisher, Nathan Guterry; (middle)Priya Narang, Megan Cheney, Victoria Zenker, Taylor Kieffer; (back) Caleb Saathoff, Matt Butler, Tyler Szczezniak, Christian Worst. Not Pictured- Corinne Hutchinson, Marc Volpe.

Published April 21, 2014 This content is archived.

UB’s team placed 23 overall out of 80 teams at the AIAA/Cessna/Raytheon Missile Systems Student Design/Build/Fly international competition.

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The event attracted approximately 700 students, faculty, and guests, and was held in Wichita, Kansas on April 11-13, 2014.

The teams designed, fabricated and then demonstrated the flight capabilities of an unmanned, electric powered, radio controlled aircraft. The aircraft had to be able to carry two payloads of differing size and weight, and complete a set of four missions: one ground taxi mission and three flight missions.

More details can be found at the competition website.