2006 OSU Team Black "Black Lightening" Part 2

"Black Lightening" was designed to compete in the 2005/2006 AIAA/Cessna/ONR Design/Build/Fly contest, held in Wichita, KS in April of 2006. The aircraft was optimized to perform a combination of Cargo Flexibility, and Minimum RAC missions. In the cargo flexibility mission, aircraft are alternately loaded with 48 tennis balls, 4 Liters of water, and a 4inx4inx24in wood block as fast as possible. The minimum RAC mission required the aircraft to fly 96 tennis balls around a prescribed course. Flight score for this mission was entirely based on having the lowest empty weight possible. Black Lightening was named in recognition of the extreme measures taken by the Black team in lightening the airplane since score was strongly related to having a light airplane. Black Lightening was the lightest plane at the contest and also finished in first place overall.

Web Video | December 16, 2006

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