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Raferdy Samson of Hot Springs, center, a high school senior in the Montana Apprenticeship Program (MAP), inspects the damage to a light airplane wing during a drone project along with Mike Reininger from the Federal Aviation Administration, left, and Madison Tandberg, an undergraduate in mechanical engineering at Montana State University, Led by MSU professor Doug Cairns, students in MAP run crash tests of small unmanned aerial vehicles at the MSU Fort Ellis Research Farm, near Bozeman. (Photo by Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez/MSU)

Raferdy Samson of Hot Springs, center, a high school senior in the Montana Apprenticeship Program (MAP), inspects the damage to a light airplane wing during a drone project along with Mike Reininger from the Federal Aviation Administration, left, and Madison Tandberg, an undergraduate in mechanical engineering at Montana State University, Led by MSU professor Doug Cairns, students in MAP run crash tests of small unmanned aerial vehicles at the MSU Fort Ellis Research Farm, n…

August 23, 2018

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Local students get taste for aerospace science in MSU project
August 23, 2018 12:16 p.m.

Local students get taste for aerospace science in MSU project

In a project that could help the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) integrate drones into the national airspace, Montana State University professor Doug Cairns and a team that includes two high school students simulate drone-aircraft collisions using a giant slingshot.