Virginia Tech Human Powered Airplane, Morphing, Design/Build/Fly, and other movies
Human Powered Airplane Project
The Spring 2006 Flight Test of the first 1/4 scale model of Iron Butterfly
Morphing Airplane Project Movies
The Spring 2003 flights (April 13 and 19, 2003):
- The baseline plane: the Delta Vortex Takeoff (a 22 sec, 5.8M Quicktime movie)
- The baseline plane: the Delta Vortex Loop and Roll (a 30 sec, 3.6M Quicktime movie)
- The baseline plane: the Delta Vortex Landing (a 17 sec, 4M Quicktime movie)
- The morphing plane: symmetric wing extension (a 18 sec, 2.9M Quicktime movie)
- The morphing plane: initial takeoff attempt (a 13 sec, 3.4M Quicktime movie)
- The morphing plane: Kevin falls on the airplane (a 21 sec, 4M Quicktime movie)
- The morphing plane: successful takeoff (a 34 sec, 5.3M Quicktime movie)
- The morphing plane: loop, roll and extend wings (a 1 min., 24 sec, 9M Quicktime movie)
The Fall 2003 flights (Nov. 20, 2003)
- The modified morphing plane ground demo:
- The modified morphing plane in flight:
The Spring 2004 effort (May 4, 2004):
The Fall 2005 effort (Nov., 2005):
Design/Build/Fly
This is the video of the 2nd flight of the 2004 Virginia Tech DBF airplane, March 27, 2004.
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