This is related to my previous post regarding basic aero textbooks, but it is a different request for assistance.
The young student engineer I'm trying to assist is going to school in the Upper Peninsula region of Michigan, at the Michigan Technical University in Houghton.
Her team is supposed to build an R/C model, within a rather stringent set of rules, to carry out a simulated flight test engineering mission. There's plenty of brain cells there, but nobody on her team has any hands-on R/C model building or flying experience. Learning how to build and fly on your first try in a national competition is a pretty tall order, so the AIAA contest rules allow the teams to have volunteer R/C pilots and mentors.
So I really don't want to tell her "just go to the local R/C club, find Gray Hair Geezer #13, and he'll give you really good guidance."
Are there any HBA members in that area that have model airplane experience, and want to do something to make a huge difference to this engineering team?
The young student engineer I'm trying to assist is going to school in the Upper Peninsula region of Michigan, at the Michigan Technical University in Houghton.
Her team is supposed to build an R/C model, within a rather stringent set of rules, to carry out a simulated flight test engineering mission. There's plenty of brain cells there, but nobody on her team has any hands-on R/C model building or flying experience. Learning how to build and fly on your first try in a national competition is a pretty tall order, so the AIAA contest rules allow the teams to have volunteer R/C pilots and mentors.
So I really don't want to tell her "just go to the local R/C club, find Gray Hair Geezer #13, and he'll give you really good guidance."
Are there any HBA members in that area that have model airplane experience, and want to do something to make a huge difference to this engineering team?
