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		<title>Competition Results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We arrived in Brisbane on the morning of Friday September 19th after 18 hours of flying and traveling 8000+ miles.  We picked up our rental car, and with maps in hand (or on the laptop), we headed for a hobby shop to pick up some glow fuel and landing gear wheels.  At the hobby shop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aessuav.org/?p=25</link>
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		<title>Crashes&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sig Kadet Senior before the crash. On August 29th we were performing some long range testing with the UAV (Sig Kadet Senior) and everything appeared to be going smoothly.  It was navigating beautifully and maintaining altitude and airspeed very well.  When slowly the link quality started to decrease, it then lost the communication link, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aessuav.org/?p=24</link>
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		<title>More Autonomous Flights and Bottle Drop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On May 10th we attempted our first bottle drop from 400 feet.  The bottle had an aluminum tab attached to it which was held by small servo at the center of gravity of the UAV.  We took off under manual control and gained altitude, as the UAV flew it’s oval path autonomously, the bottle was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aessuav.org/?p=22</link>
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		<title>Sponsors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I would like to thank all of our sponsors that have helped us get to this point, and will help us finish strong.  Our current list of sponsors includes IEEE, AESS, Boeing, Procerus, and Garmin.  We&#8217;re still a little short on funding for the year, but we&#8217;re almost there.  If you or your compnay may [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aessuav.org/?p=21</link>
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		<title>UAV Autopilot Tuning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday (April 5th) we flew the airplane for the first time with the autopilot since it got the new wing.  But before we went out to the RC airfield we had to physically install the autopilot in the fuselage, which went well.  We then performed all of the flights necessary to tune the autopilot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aessuav.org/?p=20</link>
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		<title>Progress Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry about the lack of updates, there are many new updates coming shortly so bear with us.  The first update being that we completed the new wing and completed the first flight with the new wing and it performed very well even in windy conditions.  Unfortunately there are no pictures of the actual flight but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aessuav.org/?p=19</link>
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		<title>Wing Construction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We began construction of the new wing on Friday (January 25th) after all the ribs were waterjet. The new wing is build out of plywood and balsa and hardwood rib caps. So far it seems to be significantly stronger than our previous wing. Building a wing from scratch can be a rather tedious and time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aessuav.org/?p=18</link>
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		<title>Test Rig</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently started assembling a test rig to integrate all of the electronics that will be going in the UAV. By performing all of this integration on test bench, the final installation and configuration will be performed much faster. This will also allow us do our HIL (Hardware In the Loop) simulation with all of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aessuav.org/?p=17</link>
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		<title>Name Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Starting January 1st, 2008, the University of Missouri-Rolla will be officially known as the Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&#38;T), more about that here. As a result of this we will also be changing our name to MS&#38;T AESS UAV Team.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aessuav.org/?p=16</link>
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		<title>New Wing Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since our crash several months ago we have been developing a new wing specifically designed to meet our requirements for our mission. Since speed is high priority in our mission we have designed a wing that is smaller and more aerodynamic allowing us to fly faster in order to cover the search area in less [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aessuav.org/?p=15</link>
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