In Berkeley's American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), where the goal is to design and bring to life an unmanned, electric powered, radio controlled aircraft for entry into a competition against other teams.
 
Wing.
Airfoil design of the wing.
One of the rules of the competition is that rockets of variable sizes have to be mounted below the wings on both sides. The size of the rocket at any point of the competition is decided by the competition heads. In order to hold these rockets, I had to design this apparatus. It consists of 3 pieces of tough wire. The irregular bracket shaped wire is glued onto the bottom of the wings after being fitted with two loops of tied wire. As the wires are tied into loops, the sizes of the loops can be adjusted to fit the sizes of various rockets upon tightening and untightening. The bottom part of the irregular bracket shaped wire is meant to be housed by small empty cylinders mounted on each rocket.
The fuselage.
At least four of the smallest rockets in the competition must be housed in the fuselage. It gets trickier. No rocket is allowed to make physical contact with another rocket, and hence must be fully secured. It must be shown that rockets can be loaded and unloaded from the door at the bottom of the fuselage. The ideal solution was this Stafford product.

However, after much browsing through the Stafford website, it was found that the product was taken off the shelves. Ordering a product no longer offered would either have been impossible or very expensive. In terms of practicality, the nature of the product being metal also doesn't help with the weight of the plane. Due to this setback, this specific project has been set on a temporary hold. 

Instead, a new project, centered around teaching new members of the club was started. This project includes the design and building of a small scale B2 bomber.
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