[Unified-mailman] NEXT LECTURE IN JOHNSON!

[Charles P Coleman]

Students-
Tomorrow we will do our best to run the competition with the baseline
Dragonfly. Prof Drela will pilot. Some of you will time and score. Some of
you will form a pit crew and figure out a procedure for loading the eggs.
I'll bring the eggs and paper towels! This should be fun. We'll use this
performance, operational, and experiential data to inform your redesign to
better meet the functional requirements of the competition. The functional
requirements for the baseline dragonfly are to be a slow, stable training
flyer. Quite different from the functional requirements demanded by the
competition. At the end of the semester, the data from the competition
should allow us to objectively assess how well we have been able to
re-engineer the original system (PPP) to meet the new set of requirements.
There may be some interesting surprises...
Best-
Charles