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==Bluenose | ==Bluenose (2011 - 2012)== | ||
HPVDT significantly redesigned all aspects of the design for the next iteration of speedbike. Led by co-captains Trefor Evans (NΨ 1T3) and Aidan Muller (MSE 1T3), the team proceeded to manufacture the Bluenose vehicle. This design boasted much-improved aerodynamics, highly-durable construction, revised steering geometry, and a new landing gear system. Bluenose competed at the 2012 ASME HPVC, where it won awards in the Design and Sprint events. The team finished 4th overall.[[File:Bluenose2012.JPG|500px|center|middle|thumb|Marissa and Todd at ASME HPV Challenge 2012]] | HPVDT significantly redesigned all aspects of the design for the next iteration of speedbike. Led by co-captains Trefor Evans (NΨ 1T3) and Aidan Muller (MSE 1T3), the team proceeded to manufacture the Bluenose vehicle. This design boasted much-improved aerodynamics, highly-durable construction, revised steering geometry, and a new landing gear system. Bluenose competed at the 2012 ASME HPVC, where it won awards in the Design and Sprint events. The team finished 4th overall.[[File:Bluenose2012.JPG|500px|center|middle|thumb|Marissa and Todd at ASME HPV Challenge 2012]] | ||
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<span><span>Collaboration with AeroVelo on the human-powered helicopter continued through 2013. On June 12, 2013</span>, Aerovelo won the AHS Igor I. Sikorsky Challenge and its $250,000 prize by flying Atlas for 64 seconds and reaching a height of 3.3 m. Atlas was in some ways larger than a Boeing 737 [[http://www.aerovelo.com/atlas-helicopter 2]</span>]. | <span><span>Collaboration with AeroVelo on the human-powered helicopter continued through 2013. On June 12, 2013</span>, Aerovelo won the AHS Igor I. Sikorsky Challenge and its $250,000 prize by flying Atlas for 64 seconds and reaching a height of 3.3 m. Atlas was in some ways larger than a Boeing 737 [[http://www.aerovelo.com/atlas-helicopter 2]</span>]. | ||
[[File:Aerovelo-atlas-human-powered-helicopter-sikorsky.jpg|500px|thumb|center|Aerovelo's Atlas the human powered helicopter]] | |||
==Celero (2012 - 2013)== | ==Celero (2012 - 2013)== | ||
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==ETA Prime at WHPSC 2017== | ==ETA Prime at WHPSC 2017== | ||
The team refines Eta prime over the summer and gets it in good working order while Calvin familiarizes himself with its handling. The team also restores Bluenose and sends both vehicles to Battle Moutain. At WHPSC 2017, Calvin reaches a maximum speed of 127.62 km/h (79.30 mi/h), the highest speed of that year's competition. Most of the other team members in attendance also each attain personal bests. | The team refines Eta prime over the summer and gets it in good working order while Calvin familiarizes himself with its handling. The team also restores Bluenose and sends both vehicles to Battle Moutain. At WHPSC 2017, Calvin reaches a maximum speed of 127.62 km/h (79.30 mi/h), the highest speed of that year's competition. Most of the other team members in attendance also each attain personal bests. | ||
[[File:EtaPrime2016.jpg|thumb|ETA Prime speedbike at WHPSC 2017]] | [[File:EtaPrime2016.jpg|thumb|center|ETA Prime speedbike at WHPSC 2017]] | ||
==Arbiter (2017 - 2018)== | ==Arbiter (2017 - 2018)== | ||
The team pursues a fully faired recumbent tricycle with external wheel pods called Arbiter for ASME under project director Bruce Hu. The design features a tadpole configuration and two external front wheels with co-moving wheel fairings, steered by a four bar linkage. For the first time in team history, the vehicle is test ridden before the competition. The vehicle suffered a mechanical malfunction in the right steering rod during the first heat of the Women's drag event and the damage prevents the team from competing in either drag event. However the team works through the night and the vehicle is once again functional the next morning and finishes the endurance event in 4th place. In May, Bill Kong succeeds Calvin Moes as captain. For World Speed Challenge, the team sends Eta Prime and Bluenose again where Calvin finally earns his long awaited 80 mph hat and finishes the competition in second place overall. | The team pursues a fully faired recumbent tricycle with external wheel pods called Arbiter for ASME under project director Bruce Hu. The design features a tadpole configuration and two external front wheels with co-moving wheel fairings, steered by a four bar linkage. For the first time in team history, the vehicle is test ridden before the competition. The vehicle suffered a mechanical malfunction in the right steering rod during the first heat of the Women's drag event and the damage prevents the team from competing in either drag event. However the team works through the night and the vehicle is once again functional the next morning and finishes the endurance event in 4th place. In May, Bill Kong succeeds Calvin Moes as captain. For World Speed Challenge, the team sends Eta Prime and Bluenose again where Calvin finally earns his long awaited 80 mph hat and finishes the competition in second place overall. | ||