We are a team of undergraduate and graduate students at MIT that develop aircraft for the annual AIAA Design/Build/Fly competition. Our students gain experience in conceptual design, multidisciplinary optimization, aerodynamic, structural and propulsive analysis, composite layups, CAD software, UAV fabrication and RC flight. DBF provides a means for our members to develop their technical, collaborative and communication skills while exploring their interest in aeronautics. If you have any questions, feel free to email us at dbf-exec@mit.edu. For MIT students who are interested in joining us and would like to be on our mailing list for further information on new member trainings and meetings, please fill out this form tinyurl.com/dbfinterest.
The objective for this year competition is to design, build, and test an aircraft capable of staging and delivering vaccination syringes and vaccine vial packages.
We spend September training new members and beginning the design process. We build, prototype, and flight test from October through March, and compete with our final plane in April.
President | Class of 2023
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: Additive Manufacturing
Hobbies: crochet, being outside
Favorite Aircraft: Concorde
Chief Engineer | Class of 2022
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Research Interest: Computational Aircraft Design
Hobbies: D&D, music composition, woodworking
Favorite Aircraft: LAE Ion Wind
Vice President and Treasurer | Class of 2024
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Hobbies: Reading, hiking, rowing, stargazing
Favorite aircraft: Wight quadruplane
Mechanism Lead | Class of 2024
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Hobbies: baking, going on walks, playing badminton
Favorite aircraft: Airbus A380
Aero Lead | Class of 2023
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Research Interest: Conceptual Aircraft Design, Computational Mathematics
Hobbies: rc aircraft, music, digital art
Favorite Aircraft: Stratolaunch
Propulsion Lead | Class of 2024
Major: Computer Science
Hobbies: drawing, playing video games
Favorite Aircraft: Flexrotor
Social Chair| Class of 2024
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Hobbies: playing soccer
Favorite Aircraft: Wright flyer
Graduate Student
Major: Aeronautics and Astronautics
Research: Aircraft Design, Optimization, Aerodynamics
Hobbies: Making music, sailing, skateboarding
Favorite Aircraft: T-38 Talon
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