Glider challenges
Challenge 1
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Plans
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Glider Dimensions
Conclusion Questions
- None of them were difficult to understand
- Trying to cut out the diagonal lines present in both the stabilizer and the vertical tail, other than that i hope they would have no troubles, as it is a pretty non-complex construction
- The main problem was getting a specific value because the sliders were inaccurate, I overcame the problem by figuring out that right-clicking on the sliders allowed me to enter values into the sliders.
Challenge 2
Information Report
Glider Dimensions
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Design Challenge report
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Conclusion questions
- It was a lot harder because the directions to remedy the problems with my glider were often contradicting, for example one time it wanted me to add and take off weight at the same time. Also it regularly asked me to increase the area of the vertical stabilizer, when it had already reached the constrained values; it was just harder in general.
- These constraints made the attempts to get the canard aircraft to be able to fly, as it limited the size of the vertical stabilizer to a point that even when the plane could fly, and the stabilizer constraints were at a max, the program still recommended me to make it bigger, which in turn resulted in me having to decrease the sizes of all of the other surfaces, and the nose weight.