Week 14 (17 & 18 February 2024) :: DiscoverSTEM Sessions

ILM Year 2+

Aerospace :: Team Wright Brothers

Innovation:

Team Wright Brothers, focused on addressing the challenge of space debris and collisions, beginning the session by revisiting their innovative ideas. Engaging in discussions aimed at refining existing concepts and evaluating the feasibility of additional proposals, the team worked towards enhancing their approach to tackling the issue.

Research Lab:

In the Aerospace Lab, the Wright Brothers team continued with the previous week’s module, which provided insights into various aspects of aerospace technology. The module covered landing aids such as Precision Approach Path Indicator (PAPI) and Visual Approach Slope Indicator (VASI), different aircraft license classifications, and the pivotal
role of Air Traffic Control in the aerospace and flight industry, including its operational methodologies.

Research Assignment:

Innovate a method to determine a plane’s attitude given materials found on a commercial airplane mid-flight. Students will need to mar 2 degrees and 3 degrees of attitude.

Team:

1. Ashaz Haque
2. Manan Sethi
3. Joseph Jacob Kurian
4. Ariv Kiran
5. Eashaan Dispenza
6. Advik Kothari
7. Deen Adil Khan
8. Francis Paul Kurian
9. Akansh Kartik
10. Dhruv Alamuri
11. Prishaa Jain
12. Temitope Oluwaji
13. Tomisin Oluwaji
14. Siddharth Rao
15. Arini Kiran