Thunderbird Aerospace Team Meeting

Aircraft

Thunderbird Aerospace

About the Team

As a dynamic and diverse engineering design team at the frontier of amateur rocketry, Thunderbird Aerospace seeks to inspire the future generation of engineers by being ambassadors of Indigenous excellence in aerospace. Sitting at the frontier of their development for liquid rocketry, Skoden is a blow-down, self-pressurizing nitrous and ethanol liquid bipropellant rocket that has an envelope of 8 inches in diameter, and 3 meters in height. Using NASA CEA, Thermodynamic Analysis, Incompressible Vicid Flow modelling, and high-fidelity FPM FEA methods, they characterize the features of their rocket to hit the target design needs. 

Nature of Activity

  • Internal - Prototyping
  • External - Competition
  • External - Conference Participation
  • External - Challenge Participation

Time Commitment

Weekly Sunday meetings with personal/sub-team tasks throughout the week. Total contribution of 6 hrs/week.

Application Deadlines

Winter Term 1 - End of September. Exceptions may be made as the team is small and tackles a breadth of work (technical development, indigenous outreach, media, research).

Learn more about Thunderbird Aerospace
UBC Engineering Design Team logo
Thunderbird Aerospace
UBC Crest The official logo of the University of British Columbia. Arrow An arrow indicating direction. Arrow in Circle An arrow indicating direction. Caret An arrowhead indicating direction. E-commerce Cart A shopping cart. Time A clock. Chats Two speech clouds. Facebook The logo for the Facebook social media service. Social Media The globe is the default icon for a social media platform. TikTok The logo for the TikTok social media platform. Calendar Location Home A house in silhouette. Information The letter 'i' in a circle. Instagram The logo for the Instagram social media service. Linkedin The logo for the LinkedIn social media service. Location Pin A map location pin. Mail An envelope. Telephone An antique telephone. Play A media play button. Search A magnifying glass. Arrow indicating share action A directional arrow. Speech Bubble A speech bubble. Star An outline of a star. Twitter The logo for the Twitter social media service. Urgent Message An exclamation mark in a speech bubble. User A silhouette of a person. Vimeo The logo for the Vimeo video sharing service. Youtube The logo for the YouTube video sharing service. Future of work A logo for the Future of Work category. Inclusive leadership A logo for the Inclusive leadership category. Planetary health A logo for the Planetary health category. Solutions for people A logo for the Solutions for people category. Thriving cities A logo for the Thriving cities category. University for future A logo for the University for future category.