Air Cargo Challenge 2017
A rapid aircraft-development campaign for the international Air Cargo Challenge, where teams designed and built a fixed-wing aircraft around constrained propulsion, take-off distance, payload, and mission requirements. NPU Innovation placed sixth overall.
Project context
NPU Innovation team, Zagreb
Liming's contribution
As the team's only undergraduate member, Liming focused on composite-material fabrication and also contributed to aircraft sizing, design discussions, testing, and preparation for the competition.
Selected outcomes
- Sixth place internationally
- Aircraft developed and tested within a short extracurricular design cycle
- Hands-on composite manufacturing and airframe integration
- Cross-level team collaboration with master's and doctoral researchers