Aero Design East 2012

WARRENDALE, Pa., April 30, 2012 - Aero Design East 2012

April 27-29, 2012

Cummings, Georgia

The 2012 Aero Design East competition held in Cummings, Georgia was held this year at the GMA Airfield with presentations and technical inspections being held at the Lanier Forsyth Conference Center. The event began Friday with team registration, technical inspections, and design presentations held at the Lanier Forsyth Conference Center. Friday culminated with an all team meeting where the written design and presentation scores were announced. Finishing in the top three design report awards;

Regular Class: Ecole De Technologie Superieure, Univresidade Federal de Minas Gerais, and Michigan Tech University

Advanced Class: University of Akron, Inst Tech De Aeronautica, and Missouri University of Science and Technology

Micro Class: University of Cincinnati, University of Akron, and Saint Louis University

Finishing in the top presentation awards;

Regular Class: University of Puerto Rico, University of Manitoba, and University of Central Florida

Advanced Class: Warsaw University of Technology, Missouri University of Science and Tech, and University of California – Davis

Micro Class: Instituto Federal de Sao Paulo, Saint Louis University, and North Carolina State University - Raleigh

Saturday morning began the flying. With sixty eight teams on site, the volunteers and organizers kept them moving right along throughout the day. The weather held steady at a pleasant eighty degrees with minimal winds to allow for easier flying for the teams. The GMA Airfield allowed teams a wide open space with tree lines a thousand feet away from the planes reach. The GMA runway was equipped to handle teams a takeoff in either direction depending on the wind. With three rounds in on Saturday all teams were already calculating what they would have to lift to be number one on Sunday.

Sunday brought the teams to a calculated two rounds where the top ones knew what they had to lift to be the overall winners of the day.  We saw some resurrections in the crashes from Saturday and the competition continued for the final rounds. The tensions and stakes of the competition placing grew as the top teams began doing calculations and determining their standings and what it would take to win. The day concluded with the awards ceremony crowning #028 Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais as the winner in the regular class and #328 Georgia Institute of Technology as the micro class winner and #215 Beijing University of Aeronautics  as the advanced class winner.

SAE would like to take this opportunity to recognize and thank our organizer Lonnie Dong, Lockheed Martin, the GMA Airfield as well as the following people that helped make this event run smoothly for all of their hard work and dedication to the program has made this event a success:

·         David Roberts

·         Peter Hodgell

·         Matt Greer

·         Angel Figueroa

·         Tech Inspectors

·         Presentation Judges,

·         Registration Volunteers

·         Setup Volunteers

·         Head Judges

·         Line Judges

·         Flight Stewarts

·         Fuel Technicians

·         Weight Technicians

·         Pit Boss

·         GMA Airfield

·         Sam Gengo

·         Gene Holloway

SAE would like to make a special thank you to David Roberts, of the GMA Airfield for providing the public with spectacular announcing for the entire event.

SAE would also like to thank our sponsors it is with your continued support that we are able to provide such a successful competition to our students, and we thank you for your contributions as well as the volunteers that you provide for us onsite.

·         Lockheed Martin

·         PointWise

·         NASA

·         Solid Works

·         Byron Fuel

·         PTC

·         ANSYS