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Subject: 1999/00 DBF Final Scores and Summary
The Fly-Off for the 1999/00 Cessna/ONR Student Design/Build/Fly
competition was held the weekend of April 15-16 at Cessna Aircraft Field in
Wichita, Kansas. Teams from 28 universities had aircraft in attendance.
All of the teams who submitted the required written reports attended the fly-off
with aircraft, a "first" for this year and a 100% increase in the number of
teams flying over last year.
I'd like to extend a special welcome to our
foreign entrants, two teams from Middle East Technical University in Turkey, one
team from Universita’ degli Studi,La
Sapienza,di Roma Italy, and two teams from Queen's University in Canada.
All of the teams had to contend with "typical" (ie. windy) Kansas spring
weather, and even a light shower on Saturday morning. Even with the changing
weather conditions the flight line was never empty for more than a few minutes,
as most teams made several flight attempts during the weekend.
Utah State
University became our first repeat winner in the contest history, by combining
their "best written-report" score of 93.88 with a moderate cost of 6.14 and
exemplary flights of 15, 15 and 14 liters for a final net score of 672.72, and a
check for $2500.
Second place and $1500 went to the Oklahoma State
University #2, the Ditch Witch, who combined a written score of 84.84, a
cost of 6.37 and flights of 14, 14 and 16 liters (the highest single flight
score) for a net score of 586.09.
Third place and $1000 went to the
University of Illinois with a written score of 89.50, a cost of 6.34 and flights
of 12, 12 and 13 liters totaling 522.32.
The Utah State University
"Best Written Report" will be placed on the contest web site for all teams to
view.
Detailed scoring for the written reports, best 3 sorties flown, and
final results are contained in the attached Excel file. (Note that a
"flight" score of .01 was assigned to teams who did not achieve a scoring flight
simply to get Excel to rank them according to their written scores and
costs. No flights "scored" at less than 1 liter flown.)
The contest
would not have been the resounding success it was without the help of many
people too numerous to list here. I do want to especially thank Cessna Aircraft
Company and the Office of Naval Research for their financial support and the
AIAA Foundation and the Academy of Model Aeronautics for their sponsorship.
Special thanks go to our hosts at Cessna for volunteering their weekend time to
officiate at the contest
.
I'd like to once more congratulate all of this
years participants and thank you for making this another successful and fun
competition. Draft rules for the 2000/01 DBF competition should be up on the
contest web site in about a month, so keep checking in. All of the DBF judges
and sponsors thank you for your participation and look forward to seeing you
again next year.
Greg Page
Gregory S. Page
Formula 402
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