technology
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NASA’s Giant Wind Tunnel at Moffett Field: The National Full-Scale Complex
Last week I got to do something I never imagined when I was hot-gluing coffee straws together in my garage:…
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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…
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Visiting Kennedy Space Center: Atlantis, Apollo 11, and NASA History
Kennedy Space Center: A Journey Through NASA Aerospace History Spending December 26th at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida…
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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…
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Wing Icing on a Boeing 757: How Ice Affects Flight
On a recent flight back to the Bay Area, I had a memorable experience that caught my attention as an…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Wind Tunnel Part 4: The Measuring Station
Building the measuring station by far is the most challenging task when building a wind tunnel – one that I…
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Wind Tunnel Part 3: The Concentrator
The concentrator is a specially designed section of the wind tunnel that narrows down or ‘concentrates’ the airflow as it…
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Wind Tunnel Part 2: The Diffuser
In a wind tunnel, the diffuser serves an essential function by managing the airflow as it exits the test chamber,…
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Wind Tunnel Part 1: The Test Chamber
The test chamber is where the experiments are taking place. It’s a central part of the design as it is…
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Building a Low-Speed Wind Tunnel
Today, I embark on an exciting journey to bring a piece of the aerospace world into my very own garage…
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Building a DIY Drone for Atmospheric Data Collection
Today I started building a new drone. My goal is to use it to attach sensors to it and gather…
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UCLA E96A Week Three Recap – The Final Test
Test Results In the morning, prior to visiting the airfield at Van Nuys, I tested the landing gear, as I…
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UCLA E96A Week Three Recap – Building The Final Plane
This week marked the final chance to build a successful aircraft. However, this time I chose a different strategy to…
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UCLA E96A Week Two Recap – Aerodynamics
Students started the week by designing their aircraft on Onshape, a CAD (Computer-Aided Design) software. This important step allows them…
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UCLA E96A Week One Recap – Gliders, Part Two
During the last three days of the week, students worked on new gliders and prepared for their next big project,…
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UCLA E96A Week One Recap – Gliders, Part One
Students started the second day by being assigned teams. This allowed students to collaborate throughout the week through the various…
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UCLA E96A Plane Engineering: The Start of an Adventure
Today marks the beginning of a 3-week plane designing journey at UCLA better known as “E96A Introduction to Engineering Design:…
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Welcome, aviator!
I have always been fascinated by planes. The sleek design, powerful engines, and the feeling of flying high in the…
