Boeing Flight Competition

The Boeing Flight contest is a technical competition in which contestants design airplanes/airborne structures made of balsa wood. The entries are judged on:

1) longest time flown
2) longest distance flown
3) best design
4) best team participation and
5) best documentation of project.

The competition will be held at the NSBE National Convention.

ELIGIBILITY: 

The Boeing Flight Competition is open to all Undergraduate students who are current, paid NSBE members.

GUIDELINES:

Participants must build a glider according to guidelines and demonstrate its airworthiness in a series of flight tests. To ensure uniformity of results and fairness, each glider shall be launched by means of a simple rubber band catapult (a string of rubber bands linked together can also be used).

The requirements for launching are as follows:

• The glider must be launched horizontally from the top of a typical table, approximately 30” above the floor, with sufficient initial speed to allow it to glide as it departs from the edge of the launch platform.
•  It must be a team effort (greater than one person, but no more than four members per team will be allowed). A person cannot be a member of more than one team.

This information was taken from the NSBE website.  Go here if you would like to read more about the Boeing Flight Competition.