{"id":84623,"date":"2020-06-18T19:28:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T16:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/blog\/3d-printed-aircraft\/"},"modified":"2020-06-18T19:28:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T16:28:40","slug":"3d-printed-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/3d-printed-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"3D Printed Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"

The unmanned vehicle was produced using advanced technologies to serve as a cost-effective experimental platform for design aspects pertaining to flexible aircraft and green aviation<\/b><\/p>\n

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Prof. Daniella Raveh with the students. Credit : Assaf Hober<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Students from the Technion Faculty of Aerospace Engineering conducted the successful maiden test flight of the A3TB (Active Aeroelastic Aircraft Testbed), an experimental platform for studying phenomena related to wing flexibility and future flexible aircraft design. The flight took place on May 15, two months after the project won the Student Project Competition in memory of Dr. Shlomit Gali, during the 60th\u00a0Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Designing modern aircraft includes numerous challenges, including the economic-environmental challenge of reducing fuel consumption and decreasing pollution. One of the solutions is designing lightweight aircraft structures with a large wingspan, thus reducing the drag forces. Lengthening the wings inevitably leads to increased flexibility, which spurs structural tremors and sometimes even a loss of stability. Engineering solutions, such as control mechanisms, require complex multidisciplinary R&D that combine mathematical and numeric models with simulations in the lab, as well as test flights essential for verifying performance. During these flights, one must also take into account the risk of crashing.<\/span><\/p>\n


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