A University of Alabama team of engineering students will take flight in Wichita, Kan., for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Student Design/Build/Fly competition this weekend.
Over the past two semesters, 21 students designed and built a small, electrically-powered aircraft to compete against other universities around the globe.
The final product must complete four missions, three in the air and one on the ground.
“We’ve proven that we can successfully complete all the mission requirements, both flight and ground missions, that the competition requires us to do. So that’s probably the reason we’re pretty excited, because we know we can do everything that we set out to do,” Will Bowen, a team captain and senior majoring in aerospace engineering, said.