Rice Flight
2024-2025
During the 2024-2025 school year, Rice Flight is competing the SAE Aero Design East 2025 competition, in both the Regular and Advanced classes.
First Magpie (SAE Aero Advanced 2025 Aircraft) prototype being built
Wings Over Houston
2024-2025
Photos from the 2024 Wings Over Houston air show!
Blue Angles (Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet) at 2024 Wings Over Houston Airshow
Blue Angles "Diamond" (Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet) at 2024 Wings Over Houston Airshow
F-16 Demo Team (F-16C Fighting Falcon) Taxing on H at the 2024 Wings Over Houston Airshow
North American F-100 Super Sabre taxing on H at the 2024 Wings Over Houston Airshow
Blue Angles "Diamond" (Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet) at 2024 Wings Over Houston Airshow
Rice Flight
2023-2024
During the 2023-2024 year, the Rice Flight team competed in the SAE Aero Advanced East Competition in Lakeland, Florida.
(Right: A brief video showing both competition and test footage of our 2024 SAE Aero Advanced competition primary aircraft, autonomous glider, and ground transport vehicle. )
The 2024 competition Primary Aircraft, Albatross, with three autonomous gliders.
Rice Flight at the 2024 Engineering Design Showcase, after winning the award for Aerospace and Transportation Technology
Preparing to test fly an autonomous glider
Preparing for the first test flight of the Primary Aircraft
Construction of one of the wings of the Primary Aircraft
The Primary Aircraft after flying in competition
The team with the Primary Aircraft and gliders after a successful competition flight
Preparing to fly in SAE Aero 2024
Competition flight
Coming in for landing
The team after a successful landing at competition
AIAA Events
2023-2024
Photos from chapter events around Houston!
Chapter member in a Single Engine Cessna at the 2023 Wings Over Houston Airshow
Chapter members at the Sci Tech 2024 conference in January 2024
U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds at the 2023 Airshow
U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds at the 2023 Airshow
U.S. Air Force Thunderbird at the 2023 airshow
F16 at the 2023 airshow
Rice Flight
2022-2023
During the 2022-2023 school year, the team competed in the AIAA Design-Build-Fly competition.
The 2022-2023 Plane, EA-23R Owler, at the DBF competition in Tucson, AZ
The Rice Flight team with EA-23R Owler at the DBF competition
One wing of Owler under construction
The wing after being skinned with Balsa, before Monokoting
The fuselage of Owler
The tail assembly of Owler
Wings Over Houston
2022-2023
Photos from chapter events around Houston!
The Blue Angels at the 2022 Wings Over Houston Airshow
Planes at the 2022 Houston airshow
US Coast Guard Helicopter at the 2022 Houston airshow
B-29 bomber at the 2022 Houston airshow
Blues Angles at the 2022 Wings Over Houston Airshow