{"id":6711,"date":"2022-05-30T08:43:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T07:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uosdesign.org\/designshow2026\/?page_id=6711"},"modified":"2026-06-04T07:10:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:10:37","slug":"fixed-wing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uosdesign.org\/designshow2026\/fixed-wing\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixed Wing UAV"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='fotorama--wp' data-ids='18504,18584,18507,18496,18521,18519,18518,18583,18517,18516,18515,18514,18513,18512,18511,18510,18523,18582,18509,18508,18506,18505,18503,18501,18499,18498,18497'data-link='file'data-itemtag='dl'data-icontag='dt'data-captiontag='dd'data-columns='0'data-size='large'data-width='1050'data-auto='false'data-max-width='100%'data-ratio='1.640625'>\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 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href='https:\/\/uosdesign.org\/designshow2026\/files\/2026\/05\/fixed_wing_003-1050x634.jpg' data-full='https:\/\/uosdesign.org\/designshow2026\/files\/2026\/05\/fixed_wing_003.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/uosdesign.org\/designshow2026\/files\/2026\/05\/fixed_wing_003-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/uosdesign.org\/designshow2026\/files\/2026\/05\/fixed_wing_002-1050x408.jpg' data-full='https:\/\/uosdesign.org\/designshow2026\/files\/2026\/05\/fixed_wing_002.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/uosdesign.org\/designshow2026\/files\/2026\/05\/fixed_wing_002-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Module Lead<\/h2>\n<h3>Dr David Angland<\/h3>\n<h2>Teaching Team<\/h2>\n<h3>Dr Bob Entwistle<br \/>\nDr Mehmet Erbil<br \/>\nOliver Westcott<br \/>\nCameron Boyd<br \/>\nProf Tim Waters<br \/>\nDr Daniil Yurchenko<\/h3>\n<p>The Fixed-Wing Uncrewed Air Vehicle (UAV) Project is a second-year activity where students, working in groups of six, employ their knowledge of aerodynamics, flight mechanics, systems design, structural design, and computer programming to design, build, and test a wing and gimbal for a small aircraft weighing less than 2.1kg.<\/p>\n<p>Each team is provided with an identical fuselage, tail, and propulsion system to which their wing and gimbal must attach. A series of experiments including flight tests are then used to assess each team\u2019s wing and gimbal for innovation, build quality, structural efficiency, flight performance, and stabilisation capabilities. The results of these tests are displayed as radar-plots next to the wing and gimbals.<\/p>\n<p><b>This project was generously supported by:<\/b><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-18454\" src=\"http:\/\/uosdesign.org\/designshow2026\/files\/2026\/05\/DS11-101.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"97\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uosdesign.org\/designshow2026\/files\/2026\/05\/DS11-101.png 540w, https:\/\/uosdesign.org\/designshow2026\/files\/2026\/05\/DS11-101-300x94.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Module Lead Dr David Angland Teaching Team Dr Bob Entwistle Dr Mehmet Erbil Oliver Westcott Cameron Boyd Prof Tim Waters Dr Daniil Yurchenko The Fixed-Wing Uncrewed Air Vehicle (UAV) Project is a second-year activity where students, working in groups of six, employ their knowledge of aerodynamics, flight mechanics, systems design, structural design, and computer programming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uosdesign.org\/designshow2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uosdesign.org\/designshow2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uosdesign.org\/designshow2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uosdesign.org\/designshow2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uosdesign.org\/designshow2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6711"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"https:\/\/uosdesign.org\/designshow2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18586,"href":"https:\/\/uosdesign.org\/designshow2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6711\/revisions\/18586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uosdesign.org\/designshow2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}