IITB aerospace engineering festival comes to an end

Mumbai: Zephyr-2007, a festival organised by the aerospace engineering department of IIT, Bombay culminated on Sunday with a host of interesting and innovative competitions.
The three-day long festival saw a variety of events including workshops, competitions, paper presentations, debates and guest lectures by eminent personalities. Participants of some competitions were asked to come up with specifications based on provided guidelines. Their designs were then presented in front of a panel of judges who then questioned the participants.
One such competition was MACHinfinity which could be likened to aerial F1 where the judges had to pick out the fastest electric power glider that could fly two laps between two poles that were 200 metres apart and four metres high. Five teams were selected to actually make the planes and demonstrate their models’ capabilities in the final event which will be held in December.
In the SansPOWER competition, budding aerospace engineers made designs that could enable their planes to safely land in the areas marked as landing zones.
The Water Rocketry competition — where water is used as fuel, saw aviation enthusiasts built rockets with two litre plastic bottles.
At the Balsa Glider competition, participants built aircraft using balsa wood.
FlightSim tested the maneuvering skills of the participants using the software Flight Gear Flight Simulator. Later in the day, budding aviation scientists battled out in an aerotainment quiz.
08/10/07 Mumbai Newsline

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Categories: General Aviation Oct 2007