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  • Designing the Future of Air Taxis in the Bay Area

    Designing the Future of Air Taxis in the Bay Area

    I’m incredibly excited to share that our research paper, “Operational Air Taxi Flight Routes in a Metropolitan Region,” has been officially published by AIAA ahead of the 2025 Aviation Forum in Las Vegas! The study… Read more

  • NASA’s giant wind tunnel at Moffett Field

    NASA’s giant wind tunnel at Moffett Field

    Last week I got to do something I never imagined when I was hot-gluing coffee straws together in my garage: I walked inside NASA’s giant wind tunnel at Moffett Field. My mentor from UC Berkeley,… Read more

  • Presenting at an AIAA Conference!

    Presenting at an AIAA Conference!

    Over the past year, I’ve been fortunate to conduct research in collaboration with Professor Alexandre Bayen at UC Berkeley, exploring the future of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and unmanned aircraft systems. This journey culminated in… Read more

LEARNING TO FLY

Aerodynamics and Wind tunnel

  • NASA’s giant wind tunnel at Moffett Field

    NASA’s giant wind tunnel at Moffett Field

    Last week I got to do something I never imagined when I was hot-gluing coffee straws together in my garage: I walked inside NASA’s giant wind tunnel at Moffett Field. My mentor from UC Berkeley,… Read more

  • Kennedy Space Center

    Kennedy Space Center

    Kennedy Space Center: A Journey Through NASA Aerospace History Spending December 26th at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida was one of the most memorable experiences I’ve ever had. What truly captivated me was… Read more

  • Wing Icing on a Boeing 757

    Wing Icing on a Boeing 757

    On a recent flight back to the Bay Area, I had a memorable experience that caught my attention as an aspiring aerospace engineer. The weather was grim—low visibility, frigid air, and the kind of chill… Read more

  • Wind Tunnel Fine Tuning and Experiments

    Wind Tunnel Fine Tuning and Experiments

    Launching into my wind tunnel adventures, the inaugural experiment demanded a meticulously crafted airfoil. For this, I utilized wing profiles I had previously 3D printed, destined for a model plane project. These profiles were joined… Read more

  • Wind Tunnel Part 6: First Experiments and Improvements

    Wind Tunnel Part 6: First Experiments and Improvements

    Initially after testing lift and drag through my first iteration of the wind tunnel, the data proved to be unusable as a couple of critical flaws, caused false readings, including friction, excessive weight, and airfoil… Read more

  • Wind Tunnel Part 5: Setting up Arduino

    Wind Tunnel Part 5: Setting up Arduino

    Here I am providing my wiring and source code for measuring the lift and displaying in in realtime. This setup is simplified since we are not measure drag, just lift. Notice that the measuring station… Read more

EVTOL and Drones

  • Presenting at an AIAA Conference!

    Presenting at an AIAA Conference!

    Over the past year, I’ve been fortunate to conduct research in collaboration with Professor Alexandre Bayen at UC Berkeley, exploring the future of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and unmanned aircraft systems. This journey culminated in… Read more

  • Mapping eVTOL Flight Between NASA Ames and UC Berkeley

    Mapping eVTOL Flight Between NASA Ames and UC Berkeley

    A few months ago, we kicked off a project to explore what it would take to create an air corridor between NASA Ames and UC Berkeley using electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, or eVTOLs.… Read more

  • Connecting NASA Ames→ Berkeley

    Connecting NASA Ames→ Berkeley

    Jordan Kam and I are kicking off a new project that explores the possibility of creating an aerial corridor between NASA Ames Research Center and UC Berkeley, using next-generation electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL)… Read more

  • Building a new drone

    Building a new drone

    Today I started building a new drone. My goal is to use it to attach sensors to it and gather atmospheric data. This is going to be a large drone with significant payload. I am… Read more

COOL Planes

  • Wing Icing on a Boeing 757

    Wing Icing on a Boeing 757

    On a recent flight back to the Bay Area, I had a memorable experience that caught my attention as an aspiring aerospace engineer. The weather was grim—low visibility, frigid air, and the kind of chill… Read more

  • US Coast Guard C-27J Spartan

    US Coast Guard C-27J Spartan

    After a short flight to Monterey Regional Airport (KMRY), I saw a dazzling US Coast Guard Aircraft… the C-27J Spartan. In the dynamic realm of maritime security and search-and-rescue operations, the US Coast Guard relies… Read more

  • Castle Air Museum

    Castle Air Museum

    Recently, I visited the Castle Air Museum in Atwater, California—home to over 80 restored military aircraft. Among its impressive collection, three stood out to me: the Boeing B-52D Stratofortress, the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle, and… Read more

  • Canadair CL-215 – Plane and Cockpit videos

    Canadair CL-215 – Plane and Cockpit videos

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  • The Piper Apache 150

    The Piper Apache 150

    Spotlight on the Skies: The 1954 Piper Apache 150 Today, I want to tell you about a gem of a plane I stumbled upon at the Santa Ynez airport – the 1954 Piper Apache 150.… Read more

  • The Epic E1000

    The Epic E1000

    Today, I saw an Epic aircraft up close and personal, a sight that left me in awe of its advanced design and superior performance. To appreciate this marvel of aviation technology, let’s dive deep into… Read more