[Unified-mailman] Today's SP Lecture Data

[Charles P Coleman]

      Trial Eggs Empty Pit Time Endurance Score
          Flight (sec) (sec) Flight (sec) (points)
      1 1 30 31 133 132
      2 3 32 56 67 108
      3 3 26 49 crash DNF


The table above contains data from today's lecture trials. The one egg
baseline dragonfly won the day! The greater pit crew time put the three egg
baseline in second place. However, even with the same empty and pit times
are the one egg baseline the three egg baseline dragonfly with would have
only scored 133 points, barely edging out the the one egg baseline
dragonfly's scores.

For comparison, 2003 competition data is shown below. Empty flight times are
not greatly improved over today's data. Pit times, however, are greatly
improved. And there is evidence that endurance can be significantly improved
through redesign.  However, please note that today's team using the baseline
dragonfly, little training, one egg and duct tape could have beaten the last
four of five teams in last year's competition!


Good luck! Let's see what can be done in 2004!

Charles
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