UMass Lowell - Design Build Fly (DBF)

Showing off the plane at the Collins Foundation last weekend with the AIAA New England chapter and Northeastern's AIAA and Rocket team

Another great year has come to an end, UML DBF came in 19th place overall, a new best from the team! Good luck to everyone graduating, and can't wait to see what next year's competition brings!

Congrats to our UML team who had a Top 20 finish at the AIAA Design-Build-Fly competition in Arizona!

Excited to announce UML DBF had the #9 report this year, getting a very early placement in the flight queue! New best from the school!

Officially one of the 104 teams continuing in the 2016-2017 Competition!

Proposal submitted and received, will be notified by Nov 18 about acceptance to continue in the competition!

UML DBF giving presentations at 10/23 and 10/30 Open Houses

This Friday we will be showing how we constructed wings for our planes out of balsa in the Makerspace, letting new students get hands on early in DBF!

Rules went up last week, and the 2016-17 team is beginning to be assembled!
http://www.aiaadbf.org/Missions/

Mission & Vehicle Design : The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics The objective for this year is to design a tube-launched UAV. The UAV must fit complete inside the launch tube, which also acts as the UAV handling and storage container. The launch tube must protect the UAV from damage during normal handling and storage. Upon removal of the UAV from the launch t...

We had an awesome weekend out in Wichita despite the weather! We had four flights during competition and then went to a local RC club to have a little after hours fun with the production aircraft. (Be sure to watch 1:36 for the worlds lowest loop) More videos and updates to come!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmtaU4inAtw&feature=youtu.be

UML DBF 2016: Post competition fun After competition, we figured we'd let Jason have some fun.

Here's a quick flight of the production plane in high wind conditions yesterday. Fly-off next weekend!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQZzFFzEoAc

UML DBF 2016 Test Flight: Production Plane 4/6/2016 300ft. from the Atlantic ocean and about 20 mph winds UML DBF 2016 Production Plane

Officially one of the 93 teams whose proposals were accepted to continue in the 2015-2016 DBF competition! Congrats to all the other teams who were also qualified, hope to see you all in Wichita!

Congratulations to all the senior capstone students who graduated last weekend! Hard to believe Arizona was only last month, but here are some awesome pictures from one of the on-site photographers
http://davidsreynolds.weebly.com/aiaa-dbf.html

AIAA DBF Pictures from the 2015 AIAA DBF competition in Tucson, AZ. Images are free for teams to download and distribute, just be sure to let people know where they came from!