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Multiple MSU aircraft highlighted at Wings Over Columbus Air Show

Three airplanes from Mississippi State University’s Raspet Flight Research Laboratory, as well as an unmanned aircraft system, will be displayed March 26-27 at the Wings Over Columbus Air Show at Columbus Air Force Base.

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National Guard receives professional development at MSU, Raspet

About 60 Mississippi National Guard members recently attended a two-day lecture series at Mississippi State designed to develop the critical thinking skills of the Guard’s future senior leaders.

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UAS SUCCESS IN SKIES ABOVE OKLAHOMA

For eight days in November 2021, something unexpected was in the skies above the wheat and corn fields near the small towns of Blackwell and Tonkawa in the north-central reaches of Oklahoma.

Image Alternative Text: A propeller mounted to a test stand is shown inside the flight lab's acoustic anechoic chamber.

This laboratory perfects drones in an ultra-quiet room

Engineers at Mississippi State University’s Raspet Flight Research Laboratory have constructed a special interior room to conduct research on making quieter unmanned aircraft systems.

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Expo to highlight Raspet's ag aviation analysis, UAS influence

A national agriculture trade show will highlight recent ag aviation research by a Mississippi State flight lab during a Dec. 6 panel discussion in Savannah, Georgia.

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Raspet research director presents at aviation business executive conference

A member of the Raspet Flight Research Laboratory’s leadership team is scheduled to present at Mississippi’s premier aviation conference.

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MSU flight lab studies ag aviation patterns with eye toward UAS integration

One hundred years after airplanes were first used in applying insecticide to crops, a Mississippi State flight lab seeks to understand how today’s agricultural aviators can safely share the skies with technology those early agriculturalists could not have imagined – unmanned aircraft systems.

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MSU’s Raspet Flight Lab to bring 1940s-era airplane to Louisville airshow

A Boeing Stearman biplane owned by Mississippi State’s Raspet Flight Research Laboratory will be displayed during Saturday’s Wings Over Winston Airshow at the Louisville Winston County Airport.

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ARM Aerial Facility tests instrument configuration in skies above Mississippi

High above the pastoral landscape of Greenwood, Mississippi, flights of an uncrewed aerial system (UAS) tested the configuration of instrumentation for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Aerial Facility (AAF).

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