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The majority of the research for the Icarus Project is undertaken by the GDP team, a group of Masters Students in their final year. The current team, 2016-17, are working on increasing the performance of key areas of the Icarus 1 wingsuit by extensively researching, testing and aiming to implement innovative solutions. Read more here: Group Design Project<\/a><\/p>\n Third year students also contribute to the project during their individual projects, for example in 2015\/16 a student designed and manufactured a free-flight rig for use in a wind tunnel, allowing a more representative analysis of wingsuit flight. A summary of the individual thesis’ undertaken by third year students, and MSc students, are available to see here: Individual Projects<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Icarus Project allows students from a variety of disciplines to use and apply skills learnt during their degree to a unique, exciting and challenging situation. The majority of the research for the Icarus Project is undertaken by the GDP team, a group of Masters Students in their final year. The current team, 2016-17, are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2026,"featured_media":0,"parent":229,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-247","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8cz2q-3Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/icarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/icarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/icarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/icarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2026"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/icarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/icarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/icarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247\/revisions\/452"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/icarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/icarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}