[Unified-mailman] Fwd: NEXT LECTURE IN JOHNSON!

[Carl Dietrich]

Just to be clear because there was some question/panic: you are NOT expected to complete your Dragonfly by tomorrow.  This is a demonstration of already built models only.

-Carl

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>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
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Carl Dietrich				
MIT Rocket Team 			
Unified Engineering Graduate TA		
MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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