2023
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Summary
Speedfest XII featured two aircraft competition classes:
Alpha Class: Collegiate-level Class where teams designed a
high-speed rocket - electric powered airplane capable of high top speed as well as efficiency.
India Class: Middle
/ high school level Class where teams start with a "Speed Deamon"
electric-powered pylon racer kit, and may modify the designs for
top speed in pylon racing.
In
addition to the flight competition, Speedfest included an Aero Expo that
features interesting static displays and flight demonstrations. The displays and demonstrations included:
- Static
displays hosted by the Alpha Class teams: where industry judges and the
public could learn more about the technology in their aircraft.
- OSU
High-Altitude Rocket Design Team: The
team displayed their large rockets and associated launch equipment, and did a
demonstration launch during Speedfest.
- OSU Micro-Gravity Team: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering capstone design team that participates in the NASA Microgravity program.
- Autonomous Firefighting Vehicle: Capstone design team of CEAT students that demonstrated an electric powered vehicle that could put out a fire.
- Swarm UAV Launcher: Mechanical
and Aerospace Engineering capstone design team demonstrated a pneumatic
launcher capably of launching multiple small aircraft.
- Stillwater
RC Fliers:
The local RC club had aircraft on static display.
- Sponsor
Tents: Tents were available for
industry and organization sponsors including Boeing, Pratt and Whitney, and DoDSTEM
- RC
Jet Aerobatics and jet-powered go-kart demonstrations
The
Speedfest main event was held on April 28-29, 2023. Friday was early technical inspection,
flight test, registration, and a "cookout" for the teams. Weather was rainy, but several teams were
able to get in some practice flights. Saturday was competition day, and the weather
was perfect for competition.
Participation and Attendance
Speedfest
XII set a record for overall number of teams and students involved:
In addition to the two Alpha Class teams and the 4 different
collegiate capstone design teams, 31 India-class teams competed with
their aircraft and achieved a record of over 1660 pylon flags during
the event.
Results
Final
Standings for Alpha Class:
Competition between the collegiate teams was back and forth all
day and was very close with Black team winning the pylon mission, and
Orange team winning the top-speed mission. Scores were so close
that the final winning team came down to the industry judges selection
points which favored the OSU Black team. A consolation for
Orange team was establishing an official all-time high speed for any
OSU designed UAV of 240 mph.
- Oklahoma State University Black "Vulcan"
- Oklahoma State University Orange "Phoenix"
Final
Standings for
India Class:
Speedfest Cup (Winner of head-to-head final race of top scoring teams)
Meridian Technology Center, Yellow Jackets
Speedfest Flag Awards (Highest number of flags for a single heat)
1st Place: Meridian Technology Center, Yellow Jackets
2nd Place: OSU CEAT DoD STELLAR #2 (Educator team)
3rd Place: Union City Purple Cobras
India teams could also compete for additional awards.
Judges
consisted of aerospace engineering students from the OSU student
chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Pictures and videos of the teams and planes can be found in the
"Pictures"
and "Video" sections below. The following are the results:
Best Airplane Build:
Best Airplane Graphics:
Mid-Del Tech Stars
Best Helmet:
Mustang Aero RC Flyers
Team Spirit:
Kiamichi Tech
Speedfest Educator of the Year: Chrystal Reis
Pictures
Link to pictures courtesy of Dr. Thomas Hays
Link to pictures courtesy of Dakota Keith
Video
Speedfest XII featured a required competition category for 2 minute
promotional videos. People from around the world voted
for their favorite. Awards were based on industry judges choice
for Alpha Class, and the highest number of "Likes" for India
Class. The two winning videos are here:
OSU Orange "Phoenix" (Winner, best video Alpha Class)
Mid-Del Tech Stars (Winner, best video India Class)
Thank
You
Speedfest XII was
a great success thanks to all of the hard work of the students, pilots,
organizations, and dozens of volunteers. In addition to the
sponsors recognized in the logo block, the Speedfest
organizers
would like to thank the
following organizations for thier assistance:
Stillwater RC Flyers
Student chapter of AIAA
