Alexander Liou's blended-wing body aircraft senior thesis project

Alexander Liou ’26 showed us his advanced aircraft that serves as his senior thesis project, currently in its final stages of production in the Engineering Quadrangle’s machine shop. Most aircraft use a tube-and-wing design, but what Alex is creating is a blended-wing body aircraft that combines the wings and fuselage into a single aerodynamic shape. The design reduces drag, provides more lift, and requires less power. This drone is designed to take off vertically, using two 13-inch propellers mounted on the motors. Alex says that he originally designed this prototype as a potential way to deliver blood products to medics more efficiently than a conventional "multicopter"; the drone’s payload size allows for transport of four 250ml blood packages. He said it could someday also be used for rapid response search and rescue, or low-risk military reconnaissance. His major is mechanical and aerospace engineering, and his advisers are Luigi Martinelli and Clarence Rowley.

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