{"425881":{"#nid":"425881","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Three AE teams dominate 2014 AHS Student Design Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe American Helicopter Society (AHS) this week announced that three teams from Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Aerospace Engineering have taken several top awards in the 2014 undergraduate and graduate Student Design Competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGT-AE\u0027s XV-58 Manta\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPlacing first among the graduate-level design submissions was GT-AE\u2019s XV-58 Manta, a manned fan-in-wing design, shaped like a manta ray, with two fixed pusher props in the rear. Two members of this team, Celia Leveland Frank Patterson, are the invited guests of the AHS International\u2019s 71st Annual Forum and Technology Display \u2013 to be held next May \u2013 where they will present the details of their design.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the undergraduate category, Georgia Tech\u2019s Hammerhead and Project Raven took home the second and third prizes respectively. Designs for both the graduate and undergraduate competitions were submitted June 1.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGT-AE\u0027s Hammerhead\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGT-AE\u0027s Project Raven\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBoth the undergraduate and graduate teams did an excellent job and continued Georgia Tech\u2019s legacy in winning the AHS Student Design Competitions - almost 75 percent since 1984,\u201d said AE Professor Daniel Schrage, who heads up Georgia Tech\u2019s Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cInteresting, too, that the Raven Team finished first among the 21 School of Aerospace Engineering designs submitted in Georgia Tech\u2019s Capstone Design competition this spring, but they finished third -- behind the Hammerhead Team --- in the American Helicopter Society Student Design Competition.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/2014%20AHS%20International%20Student%20Design%20Competition%20Winners.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESee the full list of AHS winners.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe 2014 Student Design Competition challenged college-level engineering students from around the world to design an experimental Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft \u2013 an X-VTOL. Teams were tasked with establishing key performance attributes - including efficient sustained hover, long-range cruise, high useful loads and sustained flight at airspeeds are about three times the speed of today\u2019s helicopters.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022150\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProf. Daniel\u0026nbsp;Schrage\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDirector of the GT Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs the 2014 Student Design Competition sponsor, AgustaWestland increased the prize amount --from $3,500 to $10,000 -- to encourage the next generation of engineers to pursue rotorcraft careers. Sponsorship of the AHS design competition rotates between AgustaWestland, Airbus Helicopters, The Boeing Company, Bell Helicopter Textron, and Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe U.S. Army recently joined this rotation, and will be the sponsor of the 32nd Annual AHS International Student Design Competition in 2015.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlso supporting the 2014 competition was Advanced Rotorcraft Technology (ART) which sponsored the use of its FLIGHTLAB software for this year\u2019s graduate competition so that students could simulate the flight characteristics of their designs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe American Helicopter Society (AHS) International is the world\u0027s premier vertical flight technical society. Since its inception in 1943, AHS has been a major force in the advancement of vertical flight. The Society is the global resource for information on vertical flight technology. It provides global leadership for scientific, technical, educational and legislative initiatives that advance the state of the art of vertical flight.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The American Helicopter Society (AHS) this week announced that three teams from Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Aerospace Engineering have taken several top awards in the 2014 undergraduate and graduate Student Design Competition."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-16 14:23:29","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:08","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-08-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-08-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"129781","name":"AHS"},{"id":"132511","name":"Daniel Schrage"},{"id":"135571","name":"Hammerhead"},{"id":"135561","name":"Project Raven"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["communications@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}