Project 1.2.

10 Glider Design Challenge One

Introduction
Have you ever tried to fly a glider? Have you made something with balsa wood
before? In this project you will learn to do both. This design challenge provides glider
constraints to create a glider design using the AERY software package.

Equipment
Computer with AERY software
Engineering notebook

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Procedure
1. Use the Challenge One glider constraints shown below.

Main: Stabilizer:
Fuselage Length (cm) 30 Span (cm) 25

Wing Location (cm) 13 Root Chord (cm) 8

Stabilizer Location (cm) 22 Taper Ratio 0.6

Vertical Location (cm) 22 Leading Edge Sweep Angle 15

Nose Mass (g) 8

Wing: Vertical Tail:

Span (cm) 50 Height (cm) 10

Root Chord (cm) 10 Root Chord (cm) 8

Taper Ratio 1.0 Taper Ratio 0.7

Leading Edge Sweep Angle 0 Leading Edge Sweep Angle 15

Launch Velocity (km/hr) 20

2. Start the AERY glider design software.

3. Click File then New Design.
4. Create a glider design that meets the constraints provided.
5. Modify the design as necessary to achieve stability. Confirm the aircraft stability
by clicking Analysis then Will It Fly?

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6. When your design is stable, print out two copies of the design.

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 7. Save the design to the location indicated by the teacher.
8. Enter one design print in your engineering notebook for use with the Challenge
Two. The second print will be for your final design report.

Conclusion
1. Explain which glider or aircraft term were difficult to understand and the correct
definition.
Root Chord: chord refers to the imaginary straight line joining the leading
and trailing edges of an aerofoil. The chord length is the distance between
the trailing edge and the point on the leading edge where the chord
intersects the leading edge.
Taper Ratio: Wing Span divided by the average chord (b/ cav) Ratio of the
Chord at the tip to the chord at the root (C t /C r) Angle between the line of
25% chord points and the longitudinal axis. Ratio of Lift to Drag.
2. Explain any challenges if someone else were to construct your design using the
AERY print.
Some constants are not available through the 2D schematic; like the thickness of
the wood.
3. Explain any challenges faced using the AERY software and how you overcame
those challenges.
Some of the constraints that were given, limited the changes that could have
been made.
The program gives you probable solutions for the aircraft, if it doesnt fly- but the
constraints would not allow some of those changes.
All this meant that I had to go back and start my design again, so that it would be
able to fly.
Just by going back and changing other areas, I was able to make my aircraft fly
without over-looking any of the constraints.

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