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LEObeta

LEObeta is the third of three. Six students — five in mechanical engineering, one in electronics — first built LELE, a prototype meant only to validate the aerodynamics, then LEOalpha to test race performance, and finally the competition aircraft, with weight reduction as its only goal.

It is the slenderest in the fleet: 3514 mm of span on a 250 mm chord, an Eppler E216 airfoil just 10% thick, chosen over the high-lift airfoil used in 2022 because the new rules rewarded speed.

In Aachen it finished second: the team's third consecutive silver.

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Wingspan 3514 mm — wing area 0.757 m²
Wing chord 250 mm
Airfoil Eppler E216, 10.4% thick
Tail full-flying V-tail, NACA 0009, 0.136 m², 45° dihedral
Set by the rules T-Motor AT2826 900 kv, one motor and one propeller only; current within 30 A; transport box summing to 1400 mm. Propeller free: an Aeronaut 13×6 was chosen
Payload carried 5.0 kg
Team Team 14, six students