Design, Build, Fly
The 2009 UW A&A DBF Team
Each year UW A&A students participate in the Cessna/Raytheon Missile Systems student Design/Build/Fly competition. The contest provides a real-world aircraft design experience for engineering students by giving them the opportunity to validate their analytic studies. Student teams design, fabricate, and demonstrate the flight capabilities of an unmanned, electric powered, radio controlled aircraft that can best meet the specified mission profile. To encourage innovation and maintain a fresh challenge, the design requirements and performance objective will be updated for each new contest year. The changes will provide new learning opportunities, while allowing for the application of technology developed by the teams from prior years.
2009 DBF Photo Gallery >>
2009 Competition Results
Faculty Advisor: Bob Breidenthal
Team Leader: Emmett Lalish, PhD student
The A&A DBF team made it to the top 10 out of 54 teams in this year's competition in Tucson, AZ. and won an AIAA aircraft design book. The airplane flew well and everyone who came to the contest did a great job making it all happen.
Thanks to this year's sponsors:
The 2009 Design Build Fly Project "Montlake Marauder"
The 2007 DBF Project "Purple Haze"