AEOLUS PolyU

We are PolyU's RC Aircraft Manufacturing Team and represent PolyU at American Insititute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) in a Design-Build and Fly Competition every year. This contest lets engineering students taste the real-world design experience by providing an opportunity to apply their knowledge practically. The teams are expected to design an unmanned, electric-powered, radio-controlled aircraft that can best achieve the ‘missions’ assigned. Every year there is an updated set of rules with new missions to encourage innovation and maintain a fresh design challenge for the novel participants. Such a measure ensures implementation of critical thinking on the design made by the teams from prior years and application of knowledge to optimize the design according to the new missions. Growing up in the modern world era, we have been exposed to the impact of technology in our daily lives, including how the lack has therefore devastated our economy to a large degree. As a team who enjoys evaluating practical aspects of mechanical theories and the laws of physics to understand their real-world applicability, we are strongly attracted to the opportunities provided by the AIAA DBF Competition. Our team has extended knowledge in aircraft technologies especially in Aerodynamics, Flight Mechanics, and Structural Stability and we see this competition as a perfect platform for us to test our own ideas in manufacturing an RC aircraft in order to make palpable progression in our subject area. Our long-term goal is to create sustainable solutions for the problems we face as we believe that the real value of education lies in applying it to the real world in order to benefit mankind for generations.