SAE Aero Design West 2023!

Wow, what a week! It was another very successful event at the Fort Worth Thunderbird field. Thanks to SAE International for allowing us to host this amazing event that was filled with fun, food, excitement, and funnel cakes. All of the event details can be found on their website www.saeaerodesign.com.

[@lcfflc3887]

what and embarrassment to the world of engineering and the RC world 🙄LOL do this people have any idea of how airplanes work, how alerons work, how flaps work, rudder ect and what do they do, how does engine thrust and aircrafts weight ratio works, Also before maiden flight, nooooh testing what so ever, main goald: crashing 👈 🙄😄 who ever lands loses.

[@ThomasDoubting5]

tough day to fly on especially with experimental designs, good job .

[@FlyRC]

They were great under the circumstances.

[@dmitrymaslov4458]

These are the ugliest large model planes I have ever seen. There is no regard for aerodynamic efficiency. Cmon guys, you can do better!

[@gamingnation77minecraft]

The planes look odd due to the rules of the challenge. They are designed with an insane amount of aerodynamics taken into consideration. Most of the planes are built to lift weight not look nice. Students calculate every detail of these planes, and most test them as well. They are tested for lift, drag, staling, wakes, etc in wind tunnels or on the back of a truck if you are a small school like us. We can always do better because that is engineering but looks or efficiency were not part of the goal. Not the goal for a KC-46 to go supersonic if you catch my drift

[@alexbuss3377]

Shout out to all of the people supporting these teams!! Most of these teams are a small group of students 10-20 who design and build the plane from the ground up. They’re only allowed one academic year to work on the plane. And they have to work on the plane outside of school. They do this in addition to school. Most of the schools attending don’t have aerospace degrees. Most of these teams are made up of rc enthusiasts.

[@adamhale6672]

In my experience with these competitions it is usually the opposite. Most of the students are engineering enthusiasts with little to no experience with RC aircraft and a handful of RC enthusiasts thrown into the mix.

[@gamingnation77minecraft]

​@Adam Hale I would disagree, when the competition ends the team busts out there personal planes and go flying at the feild. From the teams I know about half of the students are passionate RC hobbyist.

[@airtoair5711]

Mostly plane is a under power

[@gamingnation77minecraft]

The airplanes are watt limited per the rules 750 watts for example for the big ones

[@alexbuss3377]

@@gamingnation77minecraft correct.

[@aabumble9954]

r/Englrish.

[@kevinsellsit5584]

So many of these designs would have been more impressive had the conditions been so harsh. Like flying a Cessna into a tornado harsh. Conventional designs like Texas A&M shine bright as did some of the high tail wing designs, while narrow landing gear and or flying wing designs were caught off guard by the high winds. In my book everyone there was a winner under those conditions.

[@ThomasPCGuruENGINES]

Should have been postponed or shifted to indoor stadium!

[@lohikarhu734]

It would be great if you could show the design rules in the Description, or, at least, a link to the rules...it's harder to appreciate what is going on, without knowing the 'ground rules' ;-)

[@FlyRC]

All the details are on their website......www.saeaerodesign.com/

[@julesdomes6064]

@@FlyRC Gave up finding it there. Please give a short summary of the challenge in the description. Otherwise we have no idea what we are watching.

[@scrumpyenglish]

From what I can gather: Rules - entrants must be mechanically inept, only use materials unsuitable for model aircraft and no test flights. Points based on how intact it stays after one circuit?! Fun watching all the same and at least the hobby is being kept alive ✌️

[@lohikarhu734]

@@julesdomes6064 from the rules pages... SAE Aero Design features three classes of competition-Regular, Advanced, and Micro. 1. The Regular Class is an all-electric class intended to develop a fundamental understanding of aircraft design. 2. The Advanced Class is an all-electric class designed to inspire future engineers to take a systems approach to problem solving, at the same time, exposing them to explore the possibilities of autonomous flights. 3. The Micro Class is an all-electric class designed to help students balance trades studies between multiple conflicting requirements. e.g. carrying the highest payload fraction possible, while simultaneously pursuing the lowest empty weight possible. ... The students may use any literature or knowledge related to R/C aircraft design and construction and information from professionals or from professors, as long as the information is given as discussion of alternatives with their pros and cons and is acknowledged in the references in the design report. ...

[@julesdomes6064]

@@lohikarhu734 Still nothing about the rules for this particular event, so to 99.9% of us it just looks like a bunch of inept guys building poorly designed models and flying them very poorly.

[@brucegaskill1236]

Reminded me of the old days at the park. All the newbies with foamies . Nobody told me I needed to worry about CG.

[@dwightschrute4750]

There are a lot of restrictions like a 750W power limiter, maximum wingspan, weight limit, etc. And since the scoring formula considers things like weight these models are pushing the boundaries of weight-to-thrust. Hence, they look so slow and barely able to fly.

[@FlyRC]

Correct.

[@fredherfst8148]

Any restrictions on dihedral?

[@dwightschrute4750]

@@fredherfst8148 Not really

[@ThomasPCGuruENGINES]

I was pretty gutted for those kids with those big slow designs facing such wind and big objects like trees nearby. If flyday couldn't be postponed then it should have been in an indoor stadium. WELL DONE ALL

[@jlqtraceur]

Its a design competition, the whole point of it is to design a plane that will fly in extreme conditions

[@raztaz826]

Looks like fun! Some of them remind me of a university project I did. Emphasis was engineering design process and not about actually getting a plane that flies, nobody had experience designing or building a plane and so we made some iffy calculations for a wordy report, passed it in and all the planes flew maybe 2 feet.

[@miguelsuarez8010]

It looks like a contest about who builds the ugliest and most difficult model to fly.

[@jetsetretro]

Yes…because it makes a lot of sense to choose a super windy day to test really large, draggy and inefficient underpowered experimental plane designs lol. 😂 I really hope these aren’t engineering students because if they are, holy shit the world is gonna be in some serious trouble lol 😳😳😳 awesome laughs tho 👍👌

[@w8stral]

You fly the day no matter what. Yes, those are your typical engineering students... utterly clueless and not engineers, just as most doctors aren't worth a shit either or lawyers or teachers or ... Vast majority of humanity are lazy drones who do the bare minimum to get certified and get "paid"...

[@chrisberardi2304]

These are young people, all learning to design, build and fly. Actually, there is quite a lot of impressive engineering going on, but like any new project, there are lots of downfalls. It's a great experience for everyone.

[@jetsetretro]

I wouldn’t call it engineering just yet. The designs didn’t even take into account the amount of thrust or power needed to fly such horribly draggy monstrosities. Like, one afternoon of research into measuring kv, thrust, escs batteries and power systems would have done them a lot better. Instead they ignored the most important variables like power systems and the amount of wing area needed to fly an aircraft with stability. Glad they’re interested and at least trying but it seems they didn’t do much research into the vital components of flight like center of gravity, power, wing areas to even remotely call themselves engineering students yet. Like I was building gliders that flew better as a little kid because I had a real interest in what makes planes fly vs just building something that looks cool. Long ways to go. But at least they’re showing interest even if efforts are misplaced due to a gross lack of real research and making design decisions based on assumptions vs fact or data. Bad engineering. Good engineering takes science into account over aesthetics.

[@w8stral]

@@jetsetretro Well, you clearly never watched the whole vid. All the real teams went last. You saw those going first who had the LOWEST scores who ... have no clue and are doing it for S&G's.

[@jetsetretro]

Nope watched the entire vid (twice in fact) entertaining, but absolutely nothing there was remotely impressive at all really. Any 12 year old kid can watch a flite test video and build a plane that flies much better inside of a weekend. Again you guys didn’t pay attention to the physics and science behind what was needed. Which resulted in the piss poor performance of everything that flew. If you call any of it impressive you simply don’t know anything of rc or flight dynamics at all. Get over yourselves kids you have a pretty long way to go before you even suck at flying. Just because you got it off the ground doesn’t mean it flew well lol 😅 But keep at it, good spirit. over time you’ll learn. 👍

[@coriscotupi]

Fun event. It seems that the prerequisite to qualify for entering the competition was to have never, ever designed an RC model airplane before.

[@933pilgrim]

No really advanced and talent models - all looks so-so. Pilots much better then models...

[@tiporari]

Well done students. My favorite rule of aircraft design is this. " If it looks good, it will fly good." - Bill Lear of Learjet fame. My second favorite is this: Nose heavy planes fly poorly. Tail heavy planes fly once.😂

[@brianvaughn2096]

Just think, the men back in the 60’s designed and built the SR71 black bird with a slide rule.

[@demaciu88]

There must be some strict rules guiding these builds because these are all built horribly.

[@FlyRC]

The contest rules and all of the details can be found on their site. www.saeaerodesign.com/cdsweb/gen/DocumentResources.aspx

[@garyjames2148]

Thanks Phil! We appreciate your great videos! Great Job!

[@capnpete1154]

Is this Thunderbird Field at Benbrook Lake? I used to go there, literally, 50 yrs. ago as a teen drooling over RC planes. I couldn't afford it then. I fly at WSRC in N. Carolina now. Next time I visit family in FW, I'll drop by!

[@FlyRC]

Thanks, and yes it's Thunderbird Field at Benbrook lake. www.fwthunderbirds.org.

[@andrewmagro7703]

That was absolutely Amazing thank you so much for putting together such a video it almost felt like i was in the crowd , Kudos to your work and that of all whom participated , Thank you 🙂

[@FlyRC]

My pleasure and what a pleasure to have been there to capture it. Thanks.

[@divyajnana]

Foooooking wind. The right competition in the WRONG place. You wouldn't fly a full size Piper Cub in this wind much less models.

[@jouhannaudjeanfrancois891]

i am very worried about the gen7 fighters

[@gamingnation77minecraft]

Well the gen7 fighters have a very different mission from the incredibly difficult one of this competition

[@breeder1705]

This is so cool can you send me the building plans of a wet towel, I guess I’m going to slap a motor on it flies about the same way. Instead of wasting all your time with this go to church and pray a little bit. It is very important.

[@FlyRC]

Thanks for the visit. The contest rules and all of the details can be found on their site. www.saeaerodesign.com/cdsweb/gen/DocumentResources.aspx

[@Shadismic]

Is this the “Why do right if you can do wrong” competition? In this case it is very educational 👍👏👏👏

[@lord_scrubington]

its a contest to lift the maximum payload, with an emphasis on heavy wing loading and low power motors

[@Shadismic]

@@lord_scrubington You see, that’s what I mean. This seems like the wrong thing to do. And I take the crashes as my reference.

[@lord_scrubington]

@@Shadismic tbh, I'm surprised there were no biplane designs. And the lifting bodies all seemed to fair quite badly in the weather conditions

[@cratecruncher6687]

At least the Aggies stuck their landing. So much crosswind that day. But it certainly tested the stability of each design. I'm a old school rc pilot and I'd have packed it in for the day. Planes take a long time to build!

[@icin4d]

Many of them looked like the CG was just back a little too far.

[@KenKnotts1]

Great video Phil, thank you so much for sharing.

[@MrHelidude]

Incredible. A joy to watch. Absolutely amazing designs ..... ☆☆☆☆☆

[@frankienv3906]

great job, but I think lots of these planes didn't have a fair chance with that gusty Wind. Are they allowed to have a 3 axis gyro stabilizer onboard..? That would have helped a lot.

[@lcfflc3887]

Gyros or no gyros, poor weather conditions on purpose i guess and bad horrible designs with very little thrust from the motors compared to the size of the airplanes, it's also why in spite of all of this the much smaller aircrafts did better, less heavy and less drag.

[@patrickradcliffe3837]

Were the students not allowed to use principals like dihedral and forward CoG to have more stable aircraft?

[@ThomasPCGuruENGINES]

Yeah I was wondering this. Remembering free-flight designs from the pre-rc days

[@SoaringSimulator]

In short, what is this unstable event about?

[@FlyRC]

All of the event details can be found on the SAE website www.saeaerodesign.com.

[@acptelford1307]

@@FlyRCIt would be more helpful if you answered the questions instead giving a standard reply pointing to a website.

[@joseenriquetomasperez3912]

LONG LIVE THE WOMEN AEROMODELS

[@chrisberardi2304]

Isn't Thunderbird field beautiful? - What a great show by the club, Lockheed Martin, SAE and the students.

[@FlyRC]

Yes! very impressive.

[@bitemykrank1970]

What is the point of this? I see some heavy lift design idea's, some long range design idea's and some simply don't have an idea ideas, but most seem to be just designs from people who have NO IDEA how or why aircraft fly. It's like a kindergarten class was given a casual design brief and this was the result. Very odd.

[@stevec7596]

It has been this way as long as I can remember, though they seem to be getting worse. Looks like they may be running a poorly set up gyro.

[@FlyRC]

All the details are on their website...www.saeaerodesign.com/

[@waveydaveyav8r442]

@@FlyRC I've been to that website, and I'm sorry, I'm just as confused. I can't find the design rules, the mission statement, nothing!

[@Paiadakine]

@@waveydaveyav8r442 their website is not intuitive to find the rules but the reason these aircraft look so bad is this one. DESIGN AND FABRICATION The aircraft must be designed and built by the SAE International student members without direct involvement from professional engineers, radio control model experts, pilots, machinists, or related professionals. The students may use any literature or knowledge related to R/C aircraft design and construction and information from professionals or from professors, as long as the information is given as discussion of alternatives with their pros and cons and is acknowledged in the references in the design report. Professionals may not make design decisions, nor contribute to the drawings, the report, or the construction of the aircraft. The Faculty Advisor must sign the Statement of Compliance given in the Appendix.

[@alexbuss3377]

@@waveydaveyav8r442 click the 3 bars on the top right. Then look in series resources. Rule set should be in there for the 3 classes.

[@rusty383]

I Love the Texas A&M plane .Beautiful Design

[@herryrachmad6597]

Will somsone let me know the stand for SAE ?

[@johnmajane3731]

Society of automotive engineers

[@herryrachmad6597]

@@johnmajane3731 thanks a lot John, and why the design looks very unique

[@Paiadakine]

@@johnmajane3731 which is one reason some aircraft fly not so well

[@28th_St_Air]

Too bad the wind was so horribly gusty and full of rotors from trees etc near the site. Even for skilled rc pilots it would have been challenging so it was sad to see a lot of work ruined by the less than ideal conditions.

[@jirihamersky6152]

This is one of the best videos I've seen. Incredibly interesting. This is classic modeling work. Such beauty. Thanks for the link.

[@FlyRC]

My pleasure and what a pleasure to have been there to capture it. Thanks.

[@damircvijetic8567]

Very bad.

[@gamingnation77minecraft]

Video is bad or is the design bad? because I would argue neither of those are the case

[@rusty383]

The big yellow one has no lift to hold the air! Like holding a Card board box. Even with 100 motors it can't fly .Not without lift.

[@sunshineviking9933]

Was the contest for "Worst Design that Still Manages Flight (barely)"?

[@gamingnation77minecraft]

The rules of the competition require the teams to push the limits of aerodynamics, most of the planes are very heavily loaded and have watt limits, making them appear to barely fly, but most of these planes can fly acrobatics empty and without the limiters

[@tiporari]

I read the rules, no "Ringers" is why you're seeing what you see. These people are starting from scratch and first principles, with little to no experience in practical aircraft design, and likely very little piloting experience. Having designed, built and flown commercial and original designs for 30 years, it would be easy to criticize. Knowing these are beginners and have tough design restrictions, hats off to them. It's not as easy as it looks.

[@lirodex234]

You should try going outside first before commenting on videos

[@sunshineviking9933]

@@lirodex234 Your troll kung fu is weak. Bring it Snowflake.

[@Blueberry954]

@Sunshine Viking Precisely.

[@pietia771]

Has anyone flown these models before the competition?

[@gamingnation77minecraft]

Alot of the teams have members that are very passionate members of the RC community, the rules make the teams think outside the box

[@rusty383]

A lot of lift body Designs. Hard to control. I have made a few with vertical Lift by putting two motors in the widest part of the wing then pull with the nose motor.

[@fukairen9601]

I took part in this competition for 2 times, 2017-18, in micro class, interesting memory.

[@sleeplessstu]

I think those who criticize are missing the WHOLE point. This endeavor is for FUN by non-aviation students. If you can get an airplane to fly with little knowledge or expert input, it’s an awesome experience. They’re using an iterative process very much like Space-Ex used to perfect their rocket. People in the USA aren’t AFRAID to fail like in many other authoritarian countries. We learn by DOING stuff not by stealing other’s technological secrets ! 😏

[@deangiacopassi1951]

Would be nice to know what the competition was about.

[@FlyRC]

All of the event details can be found on the SAE website www.saeaerodesign.com.

[@rusty383]

PSU very old School and just a Tiny bit tail heavy. Just a little more Motor would cure

[@Cre8tvMG]

I'm sorry, but 12:59 was one of the most beautiful things I've seen this week! 😀

[@77Avadon77]

Same here.. Just golden. I honestly expected more from these students. I can only imagine that the design restrictions/limitations must be bizarre because the aircraft performance is horrendous.

[@Blueberry954]

@@77Avadon77 so did I!! Our team was supposed to be there, but we built a manhole cover of a drone that wouldn’t fly in a million years. The only big restrictions to the micro class was that the wingspan couldn’t be more than 36 inches and the power output 750W.

[@rusty383]

I read some of the comments I understand. This is a arrow dynamics computation. Kool

[@rusty383]

Very Strange looking Aircraft! Nothing what I am use too seeing.

[@EJ-74]

44:06 Dang that thing did a death roll and let out a death squel then did the death twitch Suckers 💀 lol

[@umvhu]

Are there parameters to this event that inhibit innovation?

[@FlyRC]

Thanks, all of the event details can be found on the SAE website www.saeaerodesign.com.

[@mattwyborski5366]

Great video! What camera and lens are you using to record this?

[@dougturner2036]

Elevator falls off... Guy from the crowd: c'mon hang on to it, you got it. 😅

[@FlyRC]

Keeping hope alive :-)

[@Tyler.i.81]

Not good enough people

[@gamingnation77minecraft]

What do you mean?

[@adityaganesh6804]

Thx for the video!! We usually don't get such a long video of all the fights. And we don't get to see other planes fly as we focus on our own plane. So this was really helpful thx!!!

[@FlyRC]

Great, glad you like it :-)

[@tomedward8652]

Can someone please explain why these planes were so badly designed? They obviously spent much time and money but no time spent understanding basic aerodynamics/structures.

[@FlyRC]

The students took part in the www.saeaerodesign.com contest. Read all about it on their website.

[@w8stral]

Rules: since vid host is too damned lazy: Regular class: 100ft takeoff distance 400ft landing, thus the horrible wind gust problems(low speed) Scoring from 3 flights(weight lifted and how close to predicted bonus(5 pts) on each flight) + wingspan score (no part can fall off for a valid flight) Flight score = Weight lifted lbs/2 Wing MINIMUM 120 inches(8pts) span Maximum 216(24pts)(longer span gives higher score in an equation) No part can be over 48inches long... on a long span wing... yea... yikes 750W power limiter(electric only) AKA ~1Hp Standard commercially available battery packs must be used NO FRP is allowed making stiffness a MASSIVE problem for a monoplane Cannot exceed 55lbs with payload(with 100ft runway... yea that is never going to happen) Report score is 45 pts and Presentation score is another 50pts? Everyone with an engineering/aeronautical brain Should have made a biplane with silkspan or some other ultra light plastic covering a balsa rib, spruce stringer, but I digress... The lifting wing body guys were micro class and did not read those rules. Guess I am being lazy, but honestly do not care about them. Nor did I list the open class with multiple motors which are essentially same as regular with addition of payload fraction in scoring equation and they do have unlimited runway, but still limited to 55lbs max I believe. Yea, I have competed before and won. Its been a while though.

[@FlyRC]

Awesome!

[@abundantharmony]

Seriously. I was like 'I'm not downloading no freakin rules."

[@w8stral]

@@abundantharmony Don't have to. just click and it shows in your browser...

[@roberttperez1153]

I've subscribed because i have been intrigued by the hobby of rc planes. I've been designing my own planes from scrap pieces drone/rc car parts and know how challenging it is produce a plane that actually flies. I think its what de drives me to the hobby. So congrats to all who have had success in this video, and off this video as well of course. Thank you for sharing this event. I'd like to attend one of your events so I hope you can inform me of future events. Have fun. The sky is the limit.

[@FlyRC]

Excellent, and welcome.

[@shadowmaster9780]

Get a real Rc airplane modeller/pilot, in their group, watch them succeed. I seen their design first hand, they waste lots of hard to find materials, and $$$, without any success. If these are the engineers of tomorrow, OMG!

[@gamingnation77minecraft]

A lot of these teams are made of engineering students whose passions were ignited by flying RC. The competition is designed to make students break away from the knowledge of RC and just use RC as a platform for a challenge. For example, most RC airplanes have crazy low wing loading or crazy high power-to-weight figures compared to full scale. These are both controlled in the competition to make the design a lot more difficult and a lot more like the full scale. I could bring out my Showtime 50 and fly 3D for the competition but where is the challenge in that. Most teams have very skilled RC pilots on the team (these are usually the ones flying the planes) but the skills don't translate well

[@flymachine]

At first glance I honestlly thought this class was a challenge to make a flying model using only your mother's linen closet contents - on closer inspection I still think that, I really don't get everyone's appreciation and amazement here, what are the constraints? Why do these things look like they were designed by toddlers using scraps for construction? In this day and age where even someone with no aeronautical insight can construct a scale looking craft from quality materials in a day and then fly it successfully with almost no skill, it is strange to see people applauding these community oddities - not one was well constructe3ed or flew inherently stable

[@FlyRC]

These are students participating in this event and the contest rules can be located here www.saeaerodesign.com/cdsweb/gen/DocumentResources.aspx

[@Eugensdiet]

I guess there has to be the guy you will call a troll, so as not to disappoint here are my comments. !. where is the narration that explains what the objectives were for these unconventional designs. 2. I was surprised that most of the aircraft failed to demonstrate stability or were on the hairy edge of flight. Perhaps I knew what the objectives were it would make sense. My take away is that these groups don't seem to have the basics of flight down and this is a result of people who really should be in some other field besides engineering. I'm sure there were some capable people involved but their ideas were drowned out by the incompetent. It might also help if various clubs competed in a separate class which would allow the uninitiated to see what is really capable..

[@FlyRC]

Thanks for the visit. The contest rules and all of the details can be found on their site. www.saeaerodesign.com/cdsweb/gen/DocumentResources.aspx

[@haroldanderson6021]

Great job on the video! I don't know how much time it took to edit and build this video but I know it would take me two days or so at least.....

[@FlyRC]

Thanks, it took approximately 8hrs to capture the "B" roll footage, and an additional 5hrs to create the 1hr 7min video for all to enjoy :-)

[@arildolsen7351]

I dont understand, Is this a design from "houeswifes" or a joke? None of these planes are design very good.. But very funny to look at!😂😂

[@gamingnation77minecraft]

The deign is very difficult, and make the teams push the limits of aerospace engineering. They are all very well designed to goals of the competition

[@MasboyRC]

Great video, it's so entertaining 👍

[@FlyRC]

Thanks, it was an exciting, and interesting event.

[@MasboyRC]

@@FlyRC yeahhh.. sure, greetings from indonesia 🇮🇩

[@khfoust1]

Impressive performance against those winds!

[@FlyRC]

No doubt!

[@nocknock4832]

@@FlyRC how fast were they?

[@FlyRC]

@@nocknock4832 Very, very slow. Possibly 15-30 mph on average.

[@kosmokatinperson8835]

Saw some fascinating problem-solving by many of these teams. “Great job!” to everyone! Wish the wx could have been more favorable. Stellar video!

[@kosmokatinperson8835]

…and, Gig ‘em, Aggies!!

[@fredherfst8148]

Today's lesson. Flat board bad. Flat boards with dihedral worse. Camber good. Camber and dihedral 👌

[@FlyRC]

Thanks, very true.

[@iceman952fl]

Terrible rc flying conditions

[@michaelschindele5484]

These young people don`t seem to learn much from their previous experiences with the same planes . Just like the first time I saw these planes fly , almost every plane was seriously tail-heavy . Someone should explain to them how important proper CG is . For some reason they just don`t get it . I understood it at ten years old . Not all planes were like that , but most of them were .

[@randytucker3083]

Loads of fun. Great work!!!

[@christopherleveck6835]

They never Should have made you guys fly in that kind of wind. Also a bunch of those planes would have flown really well if they weren't tail heavy.

[@marcellebaudry5786]

bravo

[@jprules2578]

You know....shouting, screaming and whistling while a pilot is getting a "new" design into the air is probably not the easiest thing to manage while keeping it in the air and attempting to trim it. Just saying...😐

[@deanedeane4318]

Great filming Man ... Awsum job....😎

[@FlyRC]

Thanks, it was my pleasure and a pleasure to be there to capture it.

[@GarryRife]

EXCELLENT !!! Wish I had been there. Great show !

[@FlyRC]

It was spectacular...Kept me recording it waaaay past the time I intended.

[@johnalbu2319]

My exact initial thought.

[@serg_svm5398]

Very cool!

[@rusty383]

I noticed a lot of designs simple needed more Power! The wide in a lot of ways was a make or break situation. If you could fly in that you could Fly anywhere.

[@rusty383]

What a shame a lot of crashes.

[@nonoyorbusness]

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. LOL I was building flying models when I was 14! And my own RC.

[@cubgsan]

Good day to you! I am a grandpa rider on HONDA motorcycle from Japan. Enjoying camping ,touring and upload video. Your event video is so nice! Awesome! Full supported ! Have a nice day my friend!

[@FlyRC]

Thanks, glad you like it. Enjoy your travels.

[@fseznomoor8947]

accounting department builds planes - oh wait that's Boeing

[@collinmccallum]

amazing!

[@rusty383]

Were these all experimental designs? Looks like the wind was really tough.

[@vulturedroid9804]

No wonder the World is moving away from the US dollar. No biplanes or triplanes and no cobra moves lol

[@saraheart8527]

I couldn't bring myself to watch the whole thing. Was this a "Who can have WAY too much wing area" and still have it fly contest?

[@FlyRC]

Thanks for the visit. The contest rules and all of the details can be found on their site. www.saeaerodesign.com/cdsweb/gen/DocumentResources.aspx

[@saraheart8527]

@@FlyRC Thank you for that! Very nice of you.

[@rusty383]

Too much lift is just as bad as not enough. Control is the Masterpiece!

[@rusty383]

Where was this at.We would Love to attend a event like this. Is there any in Virginia.

[@rusty383]

Such a Head Wind some designs could almost stand still with just the amount of power.

[@Cre8tvMG]

So what are the design limitations/requirements of the competition aircraft?

[@rusty383]

Wow ! After the Beautiful Jet Some Real Flying. Awesome!

[@elijahf111]

what is this event? some kind of design challenge?

[@FlyRC]

Thanks for the visit. The contest rules and all of the details can be found on their site. www.saeaerodesign.com/cdsweb/gen/DocumentResources.aspx

[@johnhess351]

Well, I have mixed feelings about this, but I guess it is pretty great even if a bit silly.

[@billkraemer4710]

Texas AM needs a bit more rudder authority, at least cope with the wind. Very nice.

[@shadowmaster9780]

This is more like rc flugtag😅😅😅!

[@rusty383]

Points the wind almost dead looking at the tree's

[@BonerMaroner]

Dammed wind must be gusting to 30 mph

[@FlyRC]

Close enough on that day...it was approximately 15-25.

[@michaelnorris4629]

what constituted a win. how did someones win?

[@FlyRC]

Thanks for asking and here are the contest rules www.saeaerodesign.com/cdsweb/gen/DocumentResources.aspx

[@gmivisualsjason3729]

Looking forward to seeing more from this drone.........