Component Two

Identify two companies and one product produced by each company that directly relate to the NCT technical application your team has selected.

The first company we have identified is Unmanned Tech and their product is their DIY quadcopters. One of which, that being the DYS D800 X4, has a similar design and rotary placement, although ours are cylindrical rotors. The technology they are using for flight and movement are also very similar.The second company we have identified is FanWing technologies. The products they specialize in is making planes using the Magnus effect as a propulsion system. We will be using the Magnus effect in a similar way, that being achieving flight, but in the form of a quadcopter.

Identify one professional association or trade organization associated with the products your team identified. Include: Its name, description of its mission, number of people and companies involved

The Academy of Model Aeronautics is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the research and promotion of unmanned or model aviation. Companies involved include AOPA(Aircraft owners and Pilots association) and FanWing. There are over 57,000 members in the program being under 19 and approximatly 195,000 in total

Propose and describe a new product or new process based on your team's NCT technical application.

Our team has designed a drone utilizing the magnus effect. While drones traditionally use rotor blades as a means of generating lift, our drone uses rotating spools to generate lift. This change could offer greater lift and stability, and the tiny benefit of less complexity in manufacturing a cylinder than a blade. In conjunction, the design still retains the core structure of a standard bladed drone, meaning that manufacturing body requires no changes to be made.

Via the Internet, locate a company that might be able to manufacture your team’s proposed product. Send the company an e-mail asking that someone in the company evaluate the product your team proposed. Provide on your website the e-mail request you sent, the names of manufacturers to whom you sent the request and include any responses received.

We have identified the Company HorizonHobby for being a possible manufacturer of our product. They have in the past build many quadcopters and the also sell pieces individually. This makes them a good Company candidate because they would have the materials readily available if they so need to manufacture one of our drones. This is the email we sent them, we never heard back from them:

websales@horizonhobby.com

Hello,

We are working on a school project in which we designed and built a quadcopter drone that utilizes the Magnus effect in order to achieve lift. We researched about the products you manufacture and see that many of your projects overlap what we are doing. Could you evaluate and see the product out team has proposed? Here’s a description of the product:

Our product is a drone that uses four motors to rotate cylinders where propellers would have normally been. The quadcopter in of itself is not that big being only 18 cm long in both length and width. It flies remotely using a dual signal input from Bluetooth and radio.

Thank you so much for your help!