Willie Costa - Aerospace Engineer
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Artemis Supersonic Transport
NASA ARMD Undergraduate Entry


Design driver: Maximize value of the aircraft (including marketing presence)

Team Composition
  • Multidisciplinary, multi-national, multi-university
  • Four students, three schools, three countries
  • Wildly different backgrounds: engineering, industrial design, business
  • Collaboration done entirely online

Project Guidelines
  • Supersonic business-class transport
  • ‘Sensibly supersonic’ - make a compelling economic case for design, incorporating real-world fiscal and logistical constraints

Outcomes
  • 70-passenger, dual-class cabin
  • 30% estimated gross profitability
  • Reduced boom signature: 34 PLdB
  • 4,400 nmi range; Mach 1.6 cruise
  • Customer- and operations-centric design approach

Competition Results
  • 2nd place; ~140 entries
  • Internship: NASA LaRC

Artemis images copyright Gary Redman, Red Man Designs

Contact me to talk aerospace engineering or any other nerd stuff. 

All images on this site, unless otherwise stated, are copyright Willie Costa.


email

willie.j.costa@gmail.com

linkedin

linkedin.com/in/aerowillie
  • Home
  • About
  • Relevant Experience
  • Achievements & Honors
  • Resume
  • Portfolio
    • Formula SAE
    • Axial-Flux Generator
    • SeaLion
    • Tiltrotor Whirl Flutter
    • Ganymede
    • Hammerhead
    • TR-150 Civil Tiltrotor
    • Cal Poly Flutter Club
    • JAGUAR
    • Artemis
    • MGT Reducer
    • iFly