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4 Small ammunition
7 Tranquil
8 Melancholy
10 Enjoy thoroughly
11 Depended (on)
13 Excellent condition
16 Tarzan's son
17 Cavorts
18 Midafternoon, on a sundial
19 Scoop holder
20 Padlocked fastener
21 Frightening
23 Sacred song
25 Any minute now
26 Reactions to fireworks
27 Dog's hand
28 Barbershop tool
30 Expert
33 Toady
36 Tar
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38 Blue hue
39 Hollywood clashers
40 Superlative suffix
41 Remiss
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2 Hebrew month
3 Napoleon or Nero
4 Censor, in a way
5 Big knives
6 Evening in Paris
7 Maffia kingpin
8 Dirt
9 Central
10 Science workplace
12 Religious belief of a sort
14 Small steed
15 Wardrobe malfunction
19 Sardines holder
20 Owns
21 Some daytime TV fare
22 Black-eyed legume
23 Combine
24 Get all wrinkly
25 Hot tub
26 Ultraviolet filter
28 Romulus' brother
29 In two places at once?
30 Oma mental flower
31 Guns the engine
32 Raw rock
34 Lounge
35 Long story
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KU graduates take top places in global jet design competition
RYAN MILLER
@Ryanmiller_UKD
Earlier this year, The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics hosted its 2013-14 Individual Undergraduate Aircraft Design Competition. Competitors were tasked with designing their own jet trainer that would train pilots. The designs had to meet many different regulations and requirements, and the competitors were tasked with designing the entire trainer, start to finish, individually.
The winners were announced in September and two of the three were University students. Eleazar Lachino, a former student from East Moline, Ill., who graduated in August, placed third with his "Pegasus Jet Trainer Design." Alejandra Escalera, a May 2014 graduate from La Paz, Bolivia, took second place with her "SPICA NOX JET" design. The Kansan had an interview with each competitor about their experiences with the jet design competition.
KANSAN: What was the hardest part for you about the competition?
KANSAN: What made you decide to enter the competition?
ALEJANDRA ESCALERA:
Everybody has to enter at least some competition.
You decide to take your concentration, so I decided to go into aircraft. I could have decided to go to only the undergraduate group competition, which I did too, but I had started working on this airplane in the fall, and I really liked my design. Eventually your design becomes your baby, like it's your own work, and I thought I could continue into the individual competition, and it would be fun.
ELEAZAR LACHINO. In the fall, we have different design electives to take, such as aircraft design, turbine design or spacecraft design, and I picked aircraft design. We were informed there would be a competition, and I decided to join the competition because I enjoyed it so much. It was awesome.
LACHING: The hardest part was the fact that we were told it would be judged by industry people; engineers from different firms or companies, so we were given requirements we were supposed to meet on top of that industry requirement. Also we were designing an aircraft not only better than the T-38, but [also] meeting all the industry rules and stuff. So I had to meet all those regulations which was the hardest part.
ESCALERA: I was about to start senior year and I thought, "How on earth am I going to design an aircraft?" I was anxious, but also a bit scared, but when you start working with the professor and get working on some of these things, it just keeps happening. One of the hardest parts was just balancing everything, like all your tasks, managing everything between your classes and the design competition, which takes extra time. Also, I thought, "How can I make this aircraft more unique, and actually make it work?" I think just managing time was the hardest part.
KANSAN: What part was your favorite, or the most fun, aspect of the competition?
funnest part of it all was being able to come up with different aircraft configurations.
LACHING I have to say it was early on in the process. There was a point Dr. [Ron] Barrett advised me to come up with different aircraft configurations. That part was the most fun because any idea that came to my head I wrote down. The
KANSAN: Where do you plan on taking your designs next?
ESCALERA: It's really nice to be able to graduate with such an award. It's really nice because these are international competitions and when you're second in the world, it sounds nice. I was really happy, but I was also really happy about not only myself, but Eleazar for example, because he had placed too, and actually my entire class ended up with international awards, so finding that out was great.
ESCALERA: My favorite part of the design itself was just to be able to go from different calculations and things like that into a model that you can actually see. Translating all the work into an actual thing is something that I really, really enjoy. Also, working with professor Dr. Barrett was very useful and very nice too. He was a great professor, and he supported us.
KANSAN: How did you feel when you found out how you did?
LACHING: I ended up placing third. I was pretty happy.I'm not sure about total number of competitors, but there were three of us from KU. It was an international competition; just being in the top three made me really happy.
LACHING: If you ask any undergrad what their final goal is, it's to be working at a big company like Boeing or Cessna and just be able to design a small part of an aircraft, one that you can identify. For me, it's not just aircraft. I love to design for just about anything, cars, appliances, anything. Designing things people haven't come up with before is what I would like to do.
ESCALERA: Well, now I am working in Austin, Texas, and working for a company called Wetzel Engineering, and what we actually do is design the wind turbine blades. I am planning on going back to grad school next year. I also really like the aero elasticity, and this is something that we applied a lot in our competition designs and in my design as well, and it's something I want to really keep studying, so that's probably the next step.
RANSAN: Is there anything I haven't asked about with the competition or your experiences with it that you would like to share?
ESCALERA: Well I think it's something that every student could do as long as they have the right support, which we definitely did from the entire faculty. You have to handle your time well, so you're not affecting your other classes. Design overall is really something that I found to be passionate about, and being able to design something, and see it fly, or see you win a competition, then it means that you have designed something that can be feasible, so it's great. I really do enjoy it.
Edited by Logan Schlossberg
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