Sailplane Lab
The Sailplane Lab is used primarily by undergraduate students who are enrolled in the Flight Vehicle Design and Fabrication class (AERSP 204H/404H). In this workshop, students fabricate sailplanes, human-powered aircraft, and model airplanes, as well as composite parts for other vehicles being fabricated by students in the major.
Along with the tools and materials required for manufacturing composite structures, the lab is equipped with a ventilation system, a high-pressure air systems, and a mobile vacuum pump. In addition, a variety of carbon and aramid fibers are available in different weaves, along with a number of epoxy resin systems.
Key Faculty: Mark Maughmer
Facilities and Labs
- Adverse Environment Rotor Test Stand
- Aeroacoustics Facilities
- Air Vehicle Intelligence and Autonomy Lab
- Control and Analysis of Stochastic Systems Lab
- High-performance Computing Cluster Facility
- Indoor Flight Research Lab
- Robot Ethics and Aerial Vehicles Lab
- Rotorcraft Flight Simulator Facilities
- Sailplane Lab
- Space Propulsion Lab
- Structures Labs
- Student Space Programs Lab
- Turbomachinery Aero-Heat Transfer Lab
- Water Channel/Water Tunnel
- Wind Tunnels
- Wind Turbine Field Test Facility