Students from the Academic Aviation Club took second place in the SAE Aero Design East 2020 competition, which ended last Sunday in Florida. Their unmanned aircraft received very high marks for project presentation, technical report, and mission execution.

For many months, the designers from WUST had been preparing for this competition and designing aircraft that entered it in two classes - Advanced and Micro. It was in the Advanced class that they achieved the greatest success.

It is a category where planes with a wingspan of 3.35 m have to lift the heaviest possible static cargo, locate a point on the ground, and drop as many pieces of cargo weighing 1 kg from a height of 30 m. Tracking is carried out employing a system that consists of a camera and transmitters, which send a real-time video image and flight telemetry data to the ground control station. The competition committee evaluates not only the execution of the mission itself but also the presentation of the project and technical report concerning the aircraft.

The JetStream team from Wrocław University of Science and Technology won a silver medal in the competition’s general classification. The competition jury gave high marks to our students recognising their very good preparation for the competition.

- We’re proud because the second place for the presentation and third place for the technical report, i.e. the categories that are extremely difficult, are testimony to our professionalism and considerable knowledge - say the students.

The SAE Aero Design East 2020 competition was held on March 6-8 in Lakeland, Florida. The WUST team competed against over 60 teams from around the world. Our students also had to face completely different weather conditions than what they are accustomed to in Poland. As for the Advanced class, they were second only to the team from the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA).