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The Team

Connor "Simulink isn't that bad" Novak

Onur "I made a lookup table" Talu

Connor is a sophomore at Olin College of Engineering majoring in Robotics. He enjoys robots, and presumably other things too. Connor thought this was a robotics project and got to the last week before realizing otherwise.

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Connor enjoyed the project for the chance to finally understand how planes actually stay up, despite being slightly disappointed at the destruction of his previous theory of skyhooks.

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He really thinks Simulink is pretty cool and could be a good future tool. He holds this view stubbornly despite more reasonable people telling him . . . no.

Onur is a sophomore at Olin College and a mechanical engineer. He really enjoys fluid dynamics and controls and is guilty of convincing Connor that this was "a reasonably scoped project".

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He had an awesome time working with airplanes and controlling them, and would do it again if he got the chance.

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He nearly had a heart attack before realizing that XFOIL had a sweep function for different angles of attack on an airfoil.

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