Team Keryx: Project Lifelink

First responders such as wildland firefighters, search and rescue crews, and disaster relief workers often operate in cellular-service-denied environments. This lack of long-range communication channels greatly inhibits the spread of vital information. Project LifeLink is Team Keryx’s capstone project designed to solve this issue as well as meeting the course goals of AE 420/421. The course goals for AE 420/421 are to utilize the skills and knowledge obtained in prior classes to design, develop, build, and test an aircraft tailored to a specific challenge. The students will work together in an organized structure and process to prepare them for industry after graduation. Project LifeLink is divided into three parts: the aircraft, a communications payload that will interact with the first responders, and a ground station that assists with communication. Team Keryx is responsible for the aircraft design, and a separate computer/electrical/software engineering capstone team is concurrently designing a communications payload that will be installed into the aircraft. For this project, Team Keryx will be designing and building a wind tunnel model to verify aerodynamic predictions and a vertical flight demonstrator to verify performance and payload integration functionality

Combat Command and Control lessons: We Can Learn from the Battle of Britain and Apply to Modern Air Combat

Combat Command and control is the management of a battle space by a unified commander. The Battle of Britain was a turning point in World War II that utilized airpower and superior command and control to repel a larger attacking force. Using case studies, we will learn from the Battle of Britain to identify what gave the British the advantage and how we can apply this to modern air combat. The end goal of this project is to provide a recommendation, based on lessons learned in the Battle of Britain, as to how modern air combat can be more effective. Original: POSTER PRESENTATION; AUDIO added when event went online only. AIR FORCE ROTC UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AND LEADERSHIP PRESENTATIO