Dear Beloved Past Donors,

Over the last 10 years, Cal Aero SAE has been steadily growing and improving year on year. Our record achievement at last year's competition, 3rd overall US University and 10th place overall, has proven that we'll never back down no matter what. We're excited for this year's competition, but we need your help to make it happen!

We're halfway through our Fall 2025 Fundraising for Cal Aero's 2026 Competition Travel Fundraiser! We've raised an incredible $2,000 over the last 2 weeks, and only have 2 weeks left to reach our goal of $4,000. 

Our hardworking, dedicated team this year.

We've been making great progress on our airplane this year, and are excited to show off the host of new technologies we’ve developed during our Research and Development phase in the first half of the semester. We’ll start modeling our airplane using SolidWorks soon, so keep an eye out for updates on our Instagram!

Right now, we’re fundraising for travel expenses to our upcoming competition next April, hosted at Fort Worth, Texas, and we only have 2 weeks left! The rising cost of airfare after the pandemic, as well as inflation, have massively increased our travel expenses. Our club has grown significantly in the last few years, and we want everyone to get the chance to see their masterpiece fly in the blue Texas skies. Your donation will help us do just that!

Donating $25 today not only helps fund travel, but goes a long way in expanding career-relevant engineering opportunities for all students. As always, your donation is 100% tax deductible.

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT! 

We have reached about 85% of our goal, $4,235! A huge thank you to all 38 of our patrons! Your generosity will help ensure that everybody will be able to attend the Texas competition, and more importantly, will ensure that a new generation of engineers experiences the thrill of aerospace engineering and flight.

We are already hard at work with designing our plane! Our Electrical/Testing team is gathering data by testing different propeller and battery configurations.

For updates throughout the school year, please like us on Facebook, follow our YouTube, and keep an eye out on our website!

To our donors, we will be having another update regarding our tokens of appreciation. And once again, thank you for your help!

Sincerely,

Charles Lin and the Aerospace SAE Team

Dear Aerospace SAE supporters,

Thank you so much for donating so far! At 50% of the way there, we have already covered the important costs of housing our team at competition and shipping our plane and equipment to Texas. It's very heartening to understand that there are many who appreciate and support aerospace-inclined engineers at Cal!

We've been busy this past month initiating our team's recruits through an internal foam-plane building project! After finishing flights of those planes, we are beginning our prototype designs in earnest.

It's the final week of our campaign; if you haven't already, please consider donating to help subsidize some of our engineers' airfare for competition!

Thank you everybody once again! :)