I'm in my first of uni studying aeronautical engingeering. One of our modules, engineering skills consists of2 comppnents, Matlab and design and build. The post concerns the latter. In design and build we have groups of 5 people. We have to build and design a glider which will be compared to all the other teams. We have built and tested 2 gilders. One of which achieves failr straight/level flight and descends smoothly to the ground. The distance of the corridor in whic we test is about 25m and our best glider gets just under that. Any boffins/engingeers out there have tips to make our glider better?
We have an elipptical wing/horizontal stablizer, the fuselage is thin balsa wood with gaps for the wing and HS to slot into....main wing i lower down so little less stable due to C of G being above the wing but the HS is higher up. The main wing has a slight di-hedral shape.
