Sept.28 Meeting with Discover Magasine reporter, Fenella Saunders
Sept.27,'99 Meeting of AIAA, presentation of microLTA.
Sept.28'99 Visit by Hans Mark
Oct.1,'99 Meeting with Stratospheric Balloon Experts (Winzen)
Oct..16,'99 Shop tour by Texas high school minority honor students.
Resolve dynamic loads from propulsion, control input, and collision
abhopale@mail.utexas.edu, msk@mail.utexas.edu, kbforest@mail.utexas.edu, charis@mail.utexas.edu, jj.marichalar@mail.utexas.edu, travisfitz@mail.utexas.edu, BAJ6000@aol.com, csbarbee@mail.utexas.edu, jthalbert@mail.utexas.edu, raustin@mail.utexas.edu, jaming@mail.utexas.edu, lagomorph@mail.utexas.edu wile.e.coyote@mail.utexas.edu
http://www.ae.utexas.edu/~aiaa/noframes.html, iguerra@mail.utexas.edu, aiaa@www.ae.utexas.edu
Apoorva Bhopale abhopale@mail.utexas.edu AIAA President
Karoly Burgyan kbforest@mail.utexas.edu 389-3353 propulsion
Marcus Kruger msk@mail.utexas.edu 441-1103 structure
Iliana Guerra iguerra@mail.utexas.edu 495-5903 design
Charis Hall charis@mail.utexas.edu 452-0632 design
Jeremiah Marichalar jj.marichalar@mail.utexas.edu 495-3707 structure
Travis Fitzgerald travisfitz@mail.utexas.edu 495-5100 structure
Brandon Jones BAJ6000@aol.com 453-7609 design
Scott Barbee csbarbee@mail.utexas.edu 474-2107 design/propulsion
J.T. Halbert jthalbert@mail.utexas.edu 440-8065 structure/propulsion
R. Austin raustin@mail.utexas.edu 478-8902 aero/design
Jamin Greenbaum jaming@mail.utexas.edu 457-8261 general
Nick Bender lagomorph@mail.utexas.edu 495-2625 design
Safety- lanyard to every component, impact padding or drogue for safer freefall.
Drafting (system circuit drawing, plans), part inventory, weight budgeting, web documentation,
Missing parts- stringers, new envelope (stretched, w/ outer envelope)
Docking beak needs- servo install, full stringer/film shroud
Tail surfaces
Wiring (aluminum lighter per current capacity)
Site Visit
Proximity flight by shuttle craft
Solar/Thermal- photosensor and single control axis
Corporate and private sponsorship
Larger robust outer envelope w/ inner gas bag (we need Bartlet Sails)
Better MicroVideo
Microcontoller
Bold UT markings less than 7 grams
Better Motors (lighter brushless at same performance, lower power)
DBF- Design/Build/Fly Contest
StratoSnake- a long helium tube (say 900 x 30 ft.), one side clear, the other black inside, metallized outside. It presents its clear side to sun to swell and rise at a gentle angle at several hundred feet a minute. At max. altitude the tube rolls over and presents metallized side to sun, rapidly cools, shrinks, and dives at a shallow angle. Thus, by large vertical undulations of many thousands of feet the snake makes progress through the air, purely by solar thermal power.