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The AIAA through the Applied Aerodynamics, Aircraft Design, Design Engineering and Flight Test Technical Committees and the AIAA Foundation invites all university students to participate in the Cessna/Raytheon Missile Systems Student Design/Build/Fly competition. The contest will provide a real-world aircraft design experience for engineering students by giving them the opportunity to validate their analytic studies.

Student teams will design, fabricate, and demonstrate the flight capabilities of an unmanned, electric powered, radio controlled aircraft which can best meet the specified mission profile. The goal is a balanced design possessing good demonstrated flight handling qualities and practical and affordable manufacturing requirements while providing a high vehicle performance.

To encourage innovation and maintain a fresh design challenge for each new years participants, the design requirements and performance objective will be updated for each new contest year. The changes will provide new design requirements and opportunities, while allowing for application of technology developed by the teams from prior years.

2002/03 Contest Season: 7th

Contest Winner: San Diego State University - Spirit of Monty (5/3/03)

Best Report: Utah State University (pdf format, 7 Mb) (5/12/03)

University of Rome "La Sapienza Design" Paper (3rd place)

Presented at the 21st AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference,

AIAA DBF Winners Session, Orlando, FL (7/9/03)

2003 DBF Contest Photo Gallery:

4/25/03 4/26/03 4/27/03 (6/11/03)

2002/03 AIAA DBF Competition Results (5/3/03)

2002/03 Report scores (5/3/03)

IMPORTANT NOTICE: 2002/03 Location Change (3/28/03)

2002/03 Rules (7/29/02)

NEW for this Year (rules change highlights) (7/29/02)

Download 2002/03 Entry Form (7/29/02)

FAQ Frequently Asked Questions (11/7/02)

2002/03 Teams (11/7/02)

2002/03 Radio Frequencies (11/7/02)

The members of the AIAA Applied Aerodynamics, Aircraft Design, Design Engineering and Flight Test Technical Committees and the AIAA Foundation look forward to your participation. Please direct questions by e-mail to Greg Page (greg.page@nrl.navy.mil).

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