The objective of the 1999 Request for Proposal (RFP) for the 16th Annual AHS Student Design Competition was the preliminary design of a new high-speed 4-6 place VTOL aircraft. According to Bell Helicopter Textron, sponsor of this year's competition, "Market studies have shown that in order ...
By allowing manipulation of the 2D and 3D parameters on the aircraft's wings, tail surfaces, or fuselage, a variety of possibilities have arisen. Two primary schools of thought have emerged in the field of morphing wing applications: the mechanisms school and the smart surfaces approach that ...