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| header1 = Executives 20162018-2019 | label2 = Executive Director | data2 = Jamil MadanatCallaghan Wilmott | label3 = President Team Captain| data3 = Hussain BoxwalaAdam Targui | label4 = Senior Vice President Advanced Co-Captain | data4 = Ramsey HamadehAhmed Zedam | label5 = Senior Vice President Advanced Co-Captain | data5 = Benjamin ThomsenDonald Fisher | label6 = VP Sponsorship | data6 = Nahal KazemianAndy Manjunath | label7 = VP Outreach Events | data7 = Reinhold WilcoxAdrian Wang | label8 = VP Finance | data8 = Kimia TahmasebiHelene Yang | label9 = VP Marketing Communications Media |data9 = Isabelle EssamSongyue Shi | label10 = VP Logistics | data10 = Daniel Wijaya | label11 = Advanced Sub-team Lead | data11 = Emmanuel Duplay | label12 = Lead Developer | data12 = Helson H S Go | label13 = VP Chief Aircraft Techician | data13 = Jerry Lai | label14 = Advanced Avionics Lead | data14 = Omar Khater | label15 = Micro Client | data15 = Pranoy Bhatnagar

'''The McGill Aerospace Design Society''' (aka AERO McGill) is a shared platform for all aerospace engineering [[Design Teams|design teams]] at McGill. We provide The McGill Aerospace Design Society was organized by a group of McGill undergraduate students passionate in aerospace design to give fellow colleagues the organizational frameworks, mentoringopportunity to “get their hands dirty” with various aerospace projects in a collaborative environment. McGill University offers an undergraduate concentration in Aeronautical Engineering and a Master’s program in Aerospace Engineering, and toolsthe Engineering faculty conducts ground-breaking research in collaboration with the vast Montreal aerospace industry. There are over 40 faculty members at McGill concentrating on aerospace-related research with over $20M per year in aerospace research programs and over 4, as well as 100% 500 students in the Faculty of the funding for Engineering at McGill. AERO provides our fellow students with an inclusive learning environment about aircraft design teams that we accept , allowing members to apply in-class theories in our societyreal-life such as fluid mechanics, computational aerodynamics, and aircraft performance, stability, and control. 

 The McGill Aerospace Design Society (AERO) provides the organizational frameworks, mentoring, and tools, as well as 100% of the funding for design teams that we accept in our society. All design teams bear the Aero McGill’s branding, projecting a unified and collaborative image to the McGill community at large.The McGill Aerospace Design Society (AERO) is a shared platform for all aerospace engineering design teams at McGill. We provide the organizational frameworks, mentoring, and tools, as well as 100% of the funding for design teams that we accept in our society. One reason for the previous lack of aerospace design teams was the difficulty in starting a new team from scratch. With Aero the McGillAerospace Design Society, students interested in starting a new project can skip the process of starting and promoting a team, acquiring initial funding, gaining official status at McGill, and finding resources for design, manufacturing, and testing. This shortcut gives the design teams more time to spend designing their actual projects. We hope to expand the current group of design teams to include all three SAE Aero Design East competitions ''([[McGill Aerospace Design Society#Micro Class|Micro]]the AIAA competition in the future, [[McGill Aerospace Design Society#Regular Class|Regular]], [[McGill Aerospace Design Society#Advanced Class|Advanced]])'' as well as ''[[McGill Aerospace Design Society#Unmanned Systems Canada|Unmanned Systems Canada’s]] Student Unmanned Aircraft System'' design competitionany other stimulating challenges that are brought forth. All design teams bear the Aero McGill’s AERO brandingof the McGill Aerospace Design Society, projecting a unified and collaborative image to the McGill community at large. 

===Micro ClassTeam=== In 2019, AERO McGill will be competing in the 2019 SAE Aero East Design Series in the Micro Class. The objective is to design, build, and assemble a lightweight, hand-launched, remote-controlled, and fixed-wing aircraftmicro UAV. Points are earned for carrying heavy payloads while minimizing the weight of the aircraft. A definitive constraint of In 2015, AERO McGill participated in this competition is that for the aircraft must be able to disassemble first time and placed 16th overall - ahead of many teams competing for five years or longer. Following our goal of continuous improvement, we placed 3rd in design and fit into 8th overall in 2016 - a tube with commendable feat for a 12.7cm (5.0in) diameternew team.

===Regular ClassSolar Drone=== The objective is to designIn Fall 2017, build, and assemble remotea new team has been working on producing a non-controlled, fixed-wing competition solar powered aircraft. Points are earned for carrying heavy payloads similar to The McGill Solar Drone team has started the Micro Class. The gross weight development of the plane cannot exceed 25kg a prototype solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (55lbsUAV), and drone capable of high speed agricultural surveillance. The prototype focused on the sum of wing for 2017-2018 in order to get the length, width, and height cannot exceed 444drone airborne.5cm (175in). ThusThis year, the Regular class team focuses on developing a fuselage well suited for the mission objectives and is aiming to manufacture a remotely-controlled aircraft capable of extended flight for large-scale surveying. This project will be much larger and powerful than made possible by an array of solar panels spanning the Micro class while maintaining similar mission objectiveswings providing constant power to a high energy density battery.

===Advanced ClassTeam===In 2019, AERO McGill is planning on competing in the Advanced Class of the SAE Aero Design Series once again. The objective is to design, build, and assemble operate a remote-controlled or aircraft to drop a variety of payload, including fully autonomous aircraftgliders, on target in a designated drop-zone. Points are earned for executing missions that are changed annuallyaccuracy of the drop and maximum payload lifted. In 20152016, the mission team participated in this competition for the first time, and placed 8th overall. The team was able to both successfully fly the aircraft around a course and drop a 2the packages on targets.27kg (5.0lb) package In 2017, we placed 9th overall due to an unfortunate crash early in the competition, followed by a designated drop-zonesimilar fate in 2018. A definitive constraint of this competition is that Renewed by these failures, the aircraft must have an empty weight no more than 3.63kg (8lbs) team has made major changes in design and is attacking the sum new ruleset of the length, width, and height must not exceed 444.5cm (175in)2019 with vigour.

In 2019, AERO McGill will compete in the Unmanned Systems Canada competition from May 3rd to 5th at Alma, Quebec. The objective is to design, build, and assemble operate an autonomous fixed-wing or multi-rotor multirotor aircraft. The competition’s scenario is changed annually. HoweverThis year, the team’s mission is set in a damage assessment scenario. Tasks include Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) survey, detailed inspection, and payload delivery. The vehicle must have is limited to a gross weight of less than 10kg maximum 10 kg (22lbs22 lbs) and must be capable of autonomously completing a variety of ground-oriented tasks such as terrain mapping and target analysis.