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发表于 2-10-2007 02:19 PM
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http://thestar.com.my/metro/stor ... 33507&sec=North
Model with added safety features
By DERRICK VINESH
AT a glance, it seemed like any other aircraft model that was made using Lego pieces. It was one of the 16 entries at the Penang Science and Technology Promotion Programme’s Super Aircraft Designing Competi-tion 2007 recently. While many of the competing entries comprised mainly fighter jets, this model, CH50M, was designed with safety features in mind for the transportation of passengers. In the end, the model, made by four students of SMJK (C) Chung Hwa Confucian Penang, impressed the judges to win them the competition.
 | Budding designers:A competition among secondary schools in Penang has proven that students have a knack for aerospace design.
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The event, which was held at Universiti Sains Malaysia’s Engineering campus in Nibong Tebal, was jointly organised by the state Education Department and USM’s School of Aerospace Engineering for the second year.  | Top model:The SMJK(C)Chung Hwa Confucian Penang's entry, the CH50M model aircraft.
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The champions – Fourth Form classmates Yeoh Hong Boon, Tan Peng Kiat, Kung Wei Chiat and Lim Bee Peng – shouted with joy when the results were announced. Peng Kiat said his teammates sought the idea for the model from the Internet and brainstormed to come up with their design. “Wei Chiat sketched the aircraft’s outline and we first produced a prototype model using corrugated plastic boards, aluminium wire and a shuttlecock head. “Then, we asked another school-mate Chuah Chang En to create a similar-shaped aircraft, but this time, using Lego pieces,” he said. Hong Boon said that in a mid-air emergency, passengers on board the aircraft would be rushed to a safety room equipped with safety belts as well as oxygen and water supply. The room, which had a cushion-base and parachute canopy, he said, could be ejected to safety. Bee Peng said that apart from wheels for landing, the aircraft, which would run on liquid hydrogen fuel, also had a pontoon structure for emergency landing on land and water. The team won RM250 for the effort. Second and third prizes went to SM Tun Syed Sheh Barakbah and SMK Methodist Nibong Tebal. They received RM200 and RM150 respectively. The contestants used commonly found materials such as plywood, styrofoam, plastic bottles, PVC pipes, newspapers, manila card, multi-board and spray paint to make their models. The Tunass Fighter aircraft from SM Sains Tun Syed Sheh Shahabudin had machine guns mounted all over it to provide a 360-degree shooting range. SMK Datuk Onn Butterworth’s aircraft model, which was made of plywood and plastic bottles, had attractive solar panels that tapped solar energy. The sleek-looking MS 57 aircraft from SMK Sungai Acheh was yet another impressive model with an anti-radar detection visor at the cockpit. In the aerospace costume competition, Muazmir Qayyum Bujang, 16, from SMK Sungai Acheh, looks dashing in his white spacesuit with a space helmet, oxygen tank and turbo jet pack. However, he came in third. SMK (A) Al-Irshad’s Faten Naemah Ismail, 16, won the competition with her multi-gadget yellow spacesuit. SM Sains Tun Syed Sheh Shahabudin’s Siti Zulaiha Tajudin, 16, came in second with her oversized space helmet and white spacesuit. SMK Datuk Haji Ahmad Badawi and SMK Bertam Indah were champions in the space habitat creation contest while SM Sains Tun Syed Sheh Shahabudin won the aerospace drama competition.
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