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Intro The mission of this project, sponsored by Hooligan Discs, is to apply a rigorous engineering design process to develop the “farthest flying disc on the market.” The project entails the creation of two distinct driver discs: one that conforms to the technical standards of the Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA) for competitive use, and…

In Fall 2025, I enrolled in an Intuitive/Counterintuitive Mechanisms Class. This class not only taught theory with inverse kinematics, degrees of freedom, and historical mechanisms, but was also hands-on. My grade was dependent on me designing and building mechanisms for projects. Since I was already working on my single element Camaro wing, I decided to…

Initial Modeling and Testing After initial research on closed-wheel race car wings, such as GT3 wings, I selected a few design features to lock in: airfoil shape/sizing selection, number of elements, endplate shape/sizing, degrees of twist in the wing, and mounting. I began with real-life testing on my car (Chevrolet Camaro). I first downloaded a…

Motivation When I entered Texas A&M as a National Merit Scholar on a prestigious scholarship, Iexpected the system to work with me a little. Instead, for two years, I was shut out of every research opportunity I pursued. My advisor eventually admitted, “the system has truly failed you.” That moment defined me. I stopped waiting…

Howdy! My name is Aniket Pal, and I’m an aerospace engineering graduate from Texas A&M University. Life’s too short to not do something that blows your skirt up. I’m documenting my portfolio of “doing” here. “To do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy. It would…