Project SkyFlow

Overview

In aviation, safety has always been paramount, with airfoils (essentially the wings of the plane) at the center of discussion, as they have led to numerous crashes/threats to safety in the past. The solution was to create a platform where airfoils can be accurately tested and analyzed, and to see when the airflow separates (or in other words, the air doesn’t hug the wing anymore), as that is the indicator of a crash. To accomplish this, wood was mapped, cut, and secured together to create a structure, and then painted. A honeycomb made of cut up, glued together, city electoral signs was installed in the straight section which has a window made of acrylic panel to view into the test section. Holes were drilled- one to stick incense sticks in (for air flow visualization) and the other was drilled in the center of a protractor pasted in the back of the test section. The second hole contains a dowel with an airfoil on it that can be rotated to different angles of attack. Consistently, the more symmetrical airfoils had lower angles of stall, and as the camber went up, so did the angle of stall. The solution of the testing was validated, as it provided results in accordance with other research work, where more camber indicated greater angle of stall.

Competition history

• CSEF 2026 Applied Mechanics (Junior Division) · Entry J-02-07

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