WRIGHT BROTHERS MEMORIAL VISIT

Another entertaining trip was made by a large group of students (16) to North Carolina on May 13th.   Students had fun at Wright Brothers Memorial, and at Currituck Beach Lighthouse. During the visit to the memorial, information about the first flight has been listened from the tour guides and also a documentary was watched. After the memorial visit, group has had lunch together. Following lunch, a historic lighthouse, 'Currituck Lighthouse', was visited. Students watched the environment and took several nice photos from the lighthouse. Group has also enjoyed the ride to the museum and the lighthouse. Some students stopped by farms to buy fresh fruits and some others enjoyed the beach close by the lighthouse. Trip Pictures>>

			SCHEDULE: Depart from ECSB at 9:00 AM. Reach the memorial site at 11:00 AM. At the site: Tour the first flight trail area Tour the reconstructed camp buildings(where the brother’s had their hangar buildings and living quarters) Visit the museum where there are exhibits from the first flight era and a reproduction of a 1902 glider and 1903 flyer A climb up the Kill Devil hill which oversees the whole first flight area and memorial site. Approximately 2 hours here and some time for lunch.       Optional: Visit the Cape Hatteras National Seashore which is on the Atlantic coast and is famous for shipwrecks and lighthouses. We would have the chance to climb up a light house for $6.00. Optional: Go to Nags Head beach. *Do not forget to bring your beach wear! Return to ECSB around 4:00 PM or 6:00PM *Please carry $3.00 to pay to enter the Wright Brothers Memorial Park.
For more info please contact: Hari (hgopa001@odu.edu), Ilteris (ikoc@odu.edu), Kursat (kkara@odu.edu)
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Langle Air Show May 5-7 2006

AIAA Club recently visited Langley Air Show.

Langley Air Force Base hosted the “Air Power Over Hampton Roads” air show May 5-7 giving spectators a hands-on look at the U.S. armed forces and its fighter aircrafts through aerial performance and static displays. more >>

Pictures & Movies

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ODU Aces "Shock" AIAA Regional Competition

An unusually large team from ODU (13 students + 1 faculty) traveled to Penn State University April 7-8th for the annual AIAA regional student paper competition. Of 13 entries in the graduate division, 6 were from ODU and we came away with 1st place (Isik Ozcer) and 3rd place (Jimmy Leahy), thoroughly embarrassing Penn State, Maryland, Virginia Tech, UVA, and even NIA. Isik will now compete in the national competition to be held in January 2007 at the AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting in Reno. The winning paper was entitled “Sonic Boom Prediction Using Euler / Full Potential Methodology”. The 3rd place paper was entitled “An Update on Progress towards a Working Five Degree of Freedom Magnetic Suspension and Balance System”

This picture above shows most of the happy band, from L-R, back row: Nitin Khasdeo, Ashish Tamhane (Presenter), Ilteris Koc (AIAA Chapter Vice President), Colin Britcher (Faculty Advisor), Haraharan Gopalakrishnan, George Davailus, Omar San (Presenter), Ersin Ancel, and Jimmy Leahy (Presenter, 3rd place, and AIAA Chapter President). L-R front row: Sriharsha Valiveti, Ali Isik Ozcer (Presenter, 1st place!), Brianne Williams (Presenter, AIAA Chapter Secretary, and Treasurer) and Ahmet Demirsoz. Also presented but not pictured was Kursat KARA (Presenter, AIAA Chapter Secretary, and Web Master) more pictures >>

ODU AIAA Group

ODU AIAA group with Dr. John D. Anderson, Jr.

ODU AIAA Group After the Ceremony

Having breakfast after a long drive to Penn State

NASA Langley Aircraft Landing Dynamics Facility (ALDF)

AIAA Club visited this public demonstration to commemorate the facility 50th anniversary.

The ALDF is a high pressure air-water “gun” that propels a 54-ton carriage down a test track, reaching speeds of up to 250 mph in less than two seconds <movie> . This carriage contains landing gear components. Tests conducted at this facility have helped engineers to design safer tires and landing gear systems for all aircraft, including the space shuttle. Research has also led to improvements in runway design that have even affected highway design.

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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

AIAA Club recently took a day trip to the
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, adjacent to the Dulles International Airport on December 3rd.

You can see the pictures of this trip here.

This extension of the Smithsonian Institute’s Air and Space Museum houses some of the largest air and spacecraft you’ll find anywhere. We saw some great aircraft and learned a lot about aerospace history.

Aircraft we saw included:
Concord Supersonic transport, SR-71 Blackbird, P-51 Mustang, X-35 JSF prototype, the B-29 “Enola Gay', Boeing 367-80 (or “Dash 80”, the prototype to the 707), Bell XV-15 tiltrotor, flying wing designs, several German and Soviet aircraft, and many other aircraft from almost every era and branch of human flight.

Along with aircraft, the center has many space artifacts, including: Space Shuttle Enterprise, military and communication satellites, pieces from the Spacelab space station, rocket engines and missiles from space and military programs around the world, a Mercury mission capsule, and much more.

Virginia Air and Science Center

AIAA's Old Dominion student branch visited Virginia Air and Space Center on August 11th.

You can see the pictures of this trip here.

About Virginia Air and Space Center:
Located in Hampton, Virginia, the birthplace of America’s space program, the Virginia Air & Space Center features dozens of hands-on air and space exhibits, a premiere interactive aviation gallery that spans 100 years of flight, more than 30 historic aircraft, unique space flight artifacts and more! Your imagination will soar as you launch a rocket, pilot a space shuttle, become an air traffic controller, fly an airplane, and climb aboard a WWII bomber! Come face to face with the Apollo 12 Command Module that went to the moon, a Mars meteorite, a DC-9 passenger jet, a replica 1903 Wright Flyer and more!