2024
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Summary
Speedfest XIII featured two aircraft competition classes:
Alpha Class: Collegiate-level Class where teams designed a low observable high speed jet target drone.
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.
- 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
The
Speedfest main event was held on April 26-27, 2024. Friday was early technical inspection,
flight test, registration, and a "cookout" for the teams. Due
to threat of weather on Saturday, the flight line was opened for Alpha
teams to perform scoring runs. Both teams had 4 opportunities to
fly friday, and 4 more on Saturday. Severe
weather was building to the SW in the afternoon, so Speedfest was
called early. Even so, Alpha and India teams had plenty of
flight opportunities for competition.
Participation and Attendance
Results
Final
Standings for Alpha Class:
Competition between the two teams was close on Friday with the Black
Team finishing the day in first place. On Saturday, the
Orange Team was able to pull ahead with a final score of 61.4 to 50.9
- Oklahoma State University Orange"Spectre"
- Oklahoma State University Orange "Crecendo"
Final
Standings for
India Class:
Speedfest Flag Awards (Highest number of flags for a single heat)
1st Place: Norman High Lead Balloons
2nd Place: OSGC STELLAR #2 (Educator team)
3rd Place: Mustang High Jets
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:
Mustang Wild Flowers
Best Airplane Graphics: Mustang Wild Flowers
Best Helmet: Mustang High Jets
Team Spirit: Putnam City Green Garrisson (Ninja Turtles)
Speedfest Educator of the Year: Gary Knowles, Mustang High.
Video
Speedfest XIII 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 Black "Crecendo" (Winner, best video Alpha Class)
OCS Saints Squadron Alpha (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
