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Students design prize-winning aircraft
Engineering teams take top honors with fighter plane
By Sandra Moran
Kansan staff writer
While most KU students spent last semester earning academic credit, several graduate students in the School of Engineering earned extra money and gained practical experience by designing fighter planes.
Two University of Kansas aerospace engineering teams took first and second place in last semester's AIAA-General Dynamics Team Aircraft Design Competition. The first place team won $500. The second place team won $500. All the wins will be divided among respective team members.
The teams were presented with the awards at the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics meeting on Jan. 8 in Reno, Nev.
Chris Hardin
We generally design civil planes. This was a whole new bag of tricks.'
Lawrence graduate student
A KU aeronautics team has won first competition every year since the competition began in 1984, said Brian Cox, one of the seven members of the first-place team.
Chris Hardin of Lawrence, also a member of the first-place team, said the objective of the competition was to design a low-cost fighter aircraft that could be exported to foreign countries.
KU was chosen by AIAA to compete last semester, Hardin to said.
"they sent out a request-for-pro-
spectives" and "they came up with solu-
tions." All 30 come up with solu-
that met the specifications and design requests."
The first-place design, the Ares, is an 18,000-pound, single-engine fighter plane with an innovative forward-swept wing design. The team estimates it will cost $11.1 million a plane for production of 500 planes.
Hardin said the team had not designed fighter aircrafts before the competition.
"We generally design civil
walls with this." This was a whole
pile of barge. It was big.
Some of the problems the team encountered while designing the plane included weapons storage, reliability, easy maintenance, responsiveness and maneuverability.
In the design process, the team had to decide on what types of components to use.
One of those decisions was the wing type. The team chose a forward-swept wing tip because it had better handling and performance tech-
He said the type of wing chosen, a canard wing, often could cause problems for the pilot because of the lift of the wing.
niues. Hardin said.
"This can send you into a tip stall," Hardin said. "You lose stability of the aircraft."
Hardin said the team solved the problem by developing a new way of manufacturing the wing tip so that it was stiffened and stabilized.
He said that although the design was feasible, the plans were only for competition and would not be used.
Cox said the KU design was innovative because the team used a metal wing, which was cheaper to make because it requires less time and manpower.
Hardin said the design would be used to formulate plans for next year's AIAA competition.
Streetside owner purchases Pennylane chain
Management says stores will keep their individuality
By Chris Siron Kansan staff writer
Music lovers in Lawrence need not fear a shrinking supply of recorded material, despite the buy out of Pennylane Records and Tapes by one of its former competitors.
In September, Sound Disc-tributors, St. Louis-based owner of Streetside Records stores, announced its acquisition of the Pennylane chain from Hal Brody, Kansas City, Mo., businessman and publisher of the K.C. Pitch newspaper.
Although some minor alterations have been made since the merger, no substantial changes are planned in Lawrence for either Pennline, 844 Massachusetts St. or Streetside, 1403 W. 23rd St. and managers of both stores said.
Mike Tolin, manager of Streetside, said that both stores would stay open and function as independent retailers.
He said Pennylane would keep its name, and individual store managers would continue to control each store's policies in matters such as choosing sale merchandise.
Tobin said there would be some interaction between the stores in the future since customers who
Cody Ochs, manager of Pennylane, said Pennylane's new owner bought new cash registers for his business and then "stepped out of the way."
request items can now have them transferred from any Pennylane or Streetside in the metropolitan Kansas City area to either Lawrence store. But each store may need to maintain its own clientele.
He said Pennylane would keep its strong consumer base because of downtown shopers. Also, each store has developed specialties, Tobin said, that would distinguish one from the other. Streetside has a larger selection of imported merchandise, and Pennylane has developed a larger stock of bluegrass and folk albums, he said.
Kay Harper, assistant manager of Streetside Records, 4128 Broadway in Kansas City, Mo., compared the situation in Lawrence to Musicland and Sam Goody store, which are owned by the same company and sometimes operate independently in the same
shopping mall.
Steve Wilson, assistant manager of Kief's Discount Records and Stereo Supply, 2429 St. Sa., said he did not feel the merged peer any threat to other Lawrence record stores. He said he wondered if Sound Disc-tributors would ultimately be willing to accept the fixed costs and small profit margin of operating two competing stores in a town the size of Lawrence.
Wilson said if both stores stayed open, Streetside and Pennylane inevitably would become more similar. He said many shoppers were attracted by independence in record stores.
As people came to realize the two stores were part of the same operation, they would begin to shop at the smaller, independent record shops, Wilson said.
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