User:Sali6089/FanWing

Write problem/project Goal
The goal of the fanwing project is to build a model aircraft using the fanwing concept

My First Task
Mostly brainstorming and looking at various videos on youtube.I don't know really know much about fanwings.Understanding the concept of FanWing This video though has helped me a lot and has given a better understanding of how fanwing works.

Summary of actual work over first weekend
This week was mostly done according to plan. I was basically trying to understand the concept of the FanWing on how it works and what's it used for. I basically brainstormed literally for 2 hrs on how to make this project into a success. I watched various Youtube videos, but the one video which really made understand the concept was this one Understanding the concept of FanWing and how it works. I'm hoping that this project is finished within the 3 week frame that we have.

Week1 Narrative
Before I started off on this project, My aunt threw a party in her house, and I had to attend (I know that this is completely irrelevant). So, while I was at her house, I saw a heater which had a roller spinning around. That roller made me think that kind of a roller could be used for our project. The structure of the roller was kind of like this How the roller looked like. Since I didn't know the product's name I was sort of unfortunate in finding out which company made those rollers. But the roller really did look like the design above. I discussed about this with my team mates over the week and they said that it is not going to work, since the rollers of the heater are pretty heavy and large and won't be able to lift the plane, since the plane is going to be made out off wood. After that I started looking for other materials that would look like the roller as it was shown in the video. I did find a printer which had a roller inside, but it was way to small for our project and other printers did not have a roller in them. I tried to search it for hrs, but I couldn't find any. After that I just gave up, and started looking for generators, because we needed a generator that hooked up to a battery and the 'generator would help in rolling the roller. We did find a black DC generator, but unfortunately there wasn't any more of them, also it didn't produce any current or voltage. The next day, I had to present the progress of our project to a panel of audience. One person in the audience gave us the idea of using a long hamster cage, the thing on which the hamster runs, and basically use that for our roller. That idea is actually pretty great since it is light weight and will help the plane with greater upthrust, so I am looking forward to talk about this with my team leader. My client also said that we don't need a generator for this project since that we will be using a 11 volt battery. But I don't think that will work, since the battery will be connected to the generator and the generator will produce power in order for the roller cage to move. I still have to discuss about that with my team leader.

My Second Task
My 2nd task is to basically decide with my team leader whether to use the hamster cage or not also whether to use a generator for this project or not. After me and my team have to start working on the design stage because a lot of work still needs to be done. Next week will be all about designing it.

Summary of actual work over second weekend
This week as I mentioned before was basically buying a hamster cage that was supposedly 1.5 meters in length, also this week I was really interested in finally designing the roller blades, so after the spring break we could finally start working on the body of the plane, but unfortunately neither of the 2 were possible. Hopefully over the spring break I will finish designing the roller blades.

Week2 Narrative
This week I was given the task of buying a hamster wheel that was supposedly 1.5 meters in length, so I went to petsco with one of my friends to look for it, they did have an hamster wheel that was 20 cm in length and had the same diameter as the CD but that was still way to small for our project. Several of those would have been great since they weren't as heavy and would have worked perfect on our project. The only thing was that it was expensive, one of those costed around $10,so it would have been worthless if almost $40 were spent on it and our project didn't work and my team leader also discouraged me from buying it since it is still going to be heavy.

My Third task
My next task, actually is to start building the rollers. Over the spring break me and one of my team mate will work on making the roller. If not then during week 3 the roller will be made, that week we also try to make the wings of the plane.

Week3 Activities
No Engineering work was done on week 3. I intended to do something over the spring break but wasn't able to because my team mate had to go to WWII study abroad trip and I had to go to Virginia due to an emergency.I, however, did do some brain storming and decided not to put the thin wood pieces on the center of the CD instead make holes on it and put the thin piece of wood in the holes and stick smaller pieces of window blinds on it.Putting the small thin pieces of wood through the middle hole of the cd would have damaged our entire project.

Summary of actual work over fourth weekend
Well over the break I originally intended to work on the roller or the squirrel cage but wasn't able to because of the reasons stated in week 3. However, after the break I did manage to gather all the materials that we needed for the project and I and my team mate finally made one part of the roller that was approximately 25 cm in length. Our goal is to make the roller that at least 75 cm and embed it on the body of the aircraft. Hopefully in the next 2 weeks or so of project 3 the project would be finished.

Week4 Narrative
After coming back from the break, I started working on the cross flow fan. We were really behind on our project. I bought several thin pieces of wood that were 48 cm in length and were approximately less than a cm in diameter they were very thin and putting them through the center of the cd's would have damaged our entire effort on the project. So my team mate came up with the idea of using those thin pieces of wood and drilling small holes around the cd's and putting them through the small holes of the CD and then cutting smaller pieces of window blinds and sticking it to the thin piece of wood with the wood connected to the CD. This idea actually came to me before during the spring break but I sill wanted to confirm it whether it would work or not. So, I started cutting the 48 cm thin piece of wood using a see saw, and i cut it in half, after that I and my team mate took several CD's each and made lines through them, lines had to be parallel to each other, and then I made a small dot on the CD in order to make holes through the CD, I was really nervous while I was drilling holes through the CD's because I thought I might crack the CD. Once the holes were made and the thin pieces of wood cut in half I just had to place them through the CD's, once they were placed through the CD, we just measured the distance between one CD and the next and result came out to be 5.5 cm in length. So, then I measured the length of the window blinds, the length was approximately 22 cm,I measured 5.5 cm of the window blinds and got at least 4 small pieces of the wind blinds, after that my team mate and I started gluing it on the thin piece of wood. We made one part roller that is approximately 25 cm, our goal is to make a 50 cm to 75cm roller.

Complete Team Page
Team pg filling out completed.