Update on Daniel Weaver

Hi Dave, How have you been? I saw the cub flying around recently and wanted to stop by to say hi but I was on my way to a dentist appointment so I didn’t have the time.

Sorry for going MIA, the last few months have been pretty busy for me! Here is a recap of what I have been up to lately:

In April the Design Build Fly team that I was part of at UW drove down to Tucson with our plane and placed 5th out of 97 teams. We got beat by a German team, an Austrian team, Embry-Riddle and Virginia Tech (Virginia Tech beat us 494.79 points to 494.55 points so we almost scraped out a fourth place finish). I attached some photos of the team, the plane and the box the plane had to fit in below. There is also a 30 minute recap video of the competition if you are interested in seeing more.

Episode 7: Fly-off Showdown | Design Build Fly 22-23 Season | DBF UW | AIAA DBF 2023 youtube.com My main focus in May and June was wrapping up my capstone project for my major which involved designing a new freighter concept aircraft for Boeing from the ground up and doing a lot of wind tunnel tests (more photos below).

Then on June 10th I graduated, so I now hold a BS in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering (thanks in part to the scholarship from the EAA chapter) which wrapped up my time as a UW student.

After graduation I took a month off to relax at home and then on July 10th I started an accelerated flight training program at ATP Flight School at Paine. Right now I am working towards my instrument rating and by the end of the program I will have an instrument rating, commercial single and multi and CFI, CFII and MEI (assuming all goes according to plan). I am really enjoying the instrument training. The planes I am flying are all G1000 equipped which at times can be overwhelming to someone who is used to a 6-pack, but it has a lot of cool features that are really useful for IFR (as long as you don’t get too distracted by them and forget to fly the airplane).

I just took the instrument written today and passed with 100% which I was pleasantly surprised by.

I’d love to stop by another EAA meeting sometime and update people so they know their scholarship money has been put to good use!

That’s about it from me.

Thanks for all your support!

Daniel P.S. Did you and Dave Woodcock end up taking delivery of the Legend Cub?