Enampuluh satu mahasiswa dari 14 universitas di seluruh dunia sudah membayangkan generasi masa datang pesawat penumpang dan cargo. Empat belas regu dan dua peserta individual telah menyampaikan proposal rancangan disain mereka untuk mengikuti kompetisi tahunan yang disponsori oleh program Pokok ilmu penerbangan NASA, bagian Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate.
Kelompok yang membuat angka yang paling tinggi adalah dari Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Tim mahasiswa yang belum bergelar ini pergi ke Virginia Teknik di (dalam) Blacksburg, Va. Disain yang masuk dalam pemenang yang lain : July 18, 2008—A trio of energy-efficient planes designed by students at Georgia Institute of Technology soars through calm skies in an artist's conception. NASA announced last week that this futuristic vision for commercial aircraft won top honors in the graduate student division of the agency's 2008 Fundamental Aeronautics Student Competition.
Entrants were asked to create "the next generation, 21st-century, 'DC-3'-type aircraft." Reduced noise and environmental impacts, daily operation on short runways, and the ability to carry payloads of up to 50,000 pounds (22,680 kilograms) all had to be part of the package. Passengers on the winning Georgia Tech plane wouldn't even hear an engine roar until they reached the end of the runway, because the plane would taxi on battery power. Electric propellers used for an initial boost would fold into the plane after takeoff to reduce drag. Team member Kemp Kernstine, a graduate student in aeronautical engineering, said aviation needs a revolution. "With fuel cost increasing on a daily basis and our supply quickly dwindling, if we don't do something fast, we may lose this wonderful means of transportation," Kernstine said. Other team members were Bryan Boiling, Alexis Brugere, Steve Gatto, Kevin Johnson, Mathieu Lanusse, Andrew Masse, and Keith Turner. _____________________ STINGRAE, or Short-Takeoff Integrated Nacelleless Geometry for Reduction of Acoustics and Emissions, is the creation of a six-member team from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
The commercial plane design won first place among the undergraduate entries in the 2008 Fundamental Aeronautics Student Competition, NASA announced on July 7. STINGRAE blends the body, wings, and engines into a single aerodynamic shape to cut drag and noise. Team spokesperson Stephen Pace said the approach uses "radically simple engineering innovations" that would cut emissions by 30 percent over today's planes. Other team members were Bakar Bey, Mike Fifer, Jon Frankenfield, Mike Lurie, and Cabin Samuels. ____________________ A team from the University of Miami in Florida created the Quiet Ultra-Efficient Integrated Aircraft (QUEIA), which took second place among undergraduate entries in the 2008 Fundamental Aeronautics Student Competition hosted by NASA. Winners were announced on July 7.
QUEIA is a tailless plane in which steering is controlled solely by the wings. A jet system and a highly aerodynamic wing shape eliminate some types of drag that slow down conventional airplanes. The plane also takes off and lands in short distances and requires less fuel. The University of Miami team included Joseph Dussling, Sebastian Aspe, Nicholas Heinz, and Daniel Martinez. ______________________________ The X-TS Advanced Multirole Aircraft, designed by Alexander LePage and Christopher Richards at the University of Central Florida, carries its engines atop its wings. The unusual design won an honorable mention in the 2008 Fundamental Aeronautics Student Competition, NASA announced on July 7.
Putting the engines on top deflects noise away from the ground and helps the aircraft take off on a shorter runway. In addition, the engines were designed to accommodate current and future fuel technologies, including "the integration of hydrogen fuel-cell engines, when the technology becomes available," LePage and Richards said. _____________________ Gary Redman, an undergraduate at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia, won the international division of NASA's 2008 Fundamental Aeronautics Student Competition with his design called Oionos 43 33. Winners were announced on July 7.
Redman's 24-seat commuter plane saves cargo space by having passengers store their luggage in their seat bases. The flight-attendant service area is accessed through a rear door. Student designs featured in the annual competition could fuel NASA's flight innovations, said Fay Collier, principal investigator of the agency's Subsonic Fixed Wing Project and contest administrator. Collier hopes students will be inspired in turn to pursue engineering careers and take issues such as fuel efficiency into account. "We're probably suffering right now in terms of a shortage of engineers in this area," Collier said. "We're on the cusp of an energy crisis. These kinds of things may be able to help us."
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