Human Powered Airplane Project

The Spring 2006 Flight Test of the first 1/4 scale model of Iron Butterfly

• April 30, 2006, The Iron Butterfly Premier a 23.6M Windows Media Player file

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:
  • asymmetric wing extension demonstration (a 18 sec, 4.4M Quicktime movie)
• The modified morphing plane in flight:
  • right roll with asymmetric deflection (a 28 sec, 7.5M Quicktime movie)

The Spring 2004 effort (May 4, 2004):

• Web quality taxi tests and flight attempts (a 2+ min, 4.5M QuickTime movie)
• CD quality taxi tests and flight attempts (a 2+ min, 14.3M QuickTime movie)

The Fall 2005 effort (Nov., 2005):
• video by James Pembridge (a 27 sec, 2.6M QuickTime movie)
• video by Prof. Robertshaw (a 7 min, 14.7M QuickTime movie)

Design/Build/Fly

This is the video of the 2nd flight of the 2004 Virginia Tech DBF airplane, March 27, 2004.

• Web quality 2nd flight, Mar. 27, 2004 (a 2 minute, 1.6M QuickTime movie file)
  
• CD quality 2nd flight, Mar. 27, 2004 (a 2 minute, 7.8M QuickTime file)
• Chase brings back the plane - in one piece! (a few seconds 712K QuickTime file)

• Race and aerobatic clips Caution These clips all load at the same time - slowly.

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