Giant Foamboard Jet

Over the summer in 2024 a team from the Aerospace Systems lab at the University of Manchester built a large jet powered model aircraft and used it to test a new method for visualising flow. The aircraft was made primarily out of foamboard. This craft material is used by students as a low cost and rapid means of building aircraft however it had never been used to make anything powered by a jet before. The project was completed in under 40 days with contributions made from academic staff, technical support staff, PhD students, undergraduate interns, and high school interns.