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SOME PUBLICATIONS BY
AEROVEL PEOPLE
G.J. Holland, T. McGeer and H.H. Youngren.  Autonomous aerosondes for
economical  atmospheric soundings anywhere on the globe.  Bulletin of the
American Meteorological Society
73(12):1987-1999, December 1992.

S.B. Heppe and K. Gauksheim.  
Method and apparatus for satellite-based
relative positioning of moving platforms.  US patent 6,961,018 (2005).

T. McGeer.  Aerosonde hazard estimation. 1994. (6 pp)

T. McGeer.  
Regulatory issues involving long-range weather observation by
aerosonde autonomous aircraft.  October 1998.  (8 pp)

T. McGeer.  
Laima: the first Atlantic crossing by unmanned aircraft. 1998. (25 pp)

T. McGeer. Breaking the sonde barrier.
Air & Space/Smithsonian 14(4): 64-69,
November 1999.

T. McGeer and J. Vagners.  
Wide-scale use of long-range miniature aerosondes
over the world's oceans.  1999.

T. McGeer, L. Newcombe, and J. Vagners.  
Quantitative risk management as a
regulatory approach to civil UAVs.  International Workshop on UAV Certification,
Paris, June 1999.

S. P. Hendrickson and T. McGeer.  
A miniature powerplant for very small, very
long range autonomous aircraft.  Final Report under US DoE contract
FG03-96ER82187, September 1999.  (23 pp)

T. McGeer
et al.  Method for retrieving a fixed-wing aircraft without a runway.
US patent 6,264,140 (2001)
.

T. McGeer.  
Aerosonde Pacific reconnaissance: ready when you are!  Pacific
Northwest Weather Workshop, March 2005. (15 pp)

T. McGeer.  
Methods and apparatuses for launching, capturing, and storing
unmanned aircraft, including a container having a guide structure for aircraft
components.  US patent 7,104,495 (2006).

T. McGeer, C. Roeseler and A.H. von Flotow.  Methods and apparatuses for
launching unmanned aircraft, including methods and apparatuses for releasably
gripping aircraft during launch.  US patent 7,140,575 (2006)

T. McGeer.  
Safety, economy, reliability, and regulatory policy for unmanned
aircraft.  Aerovel Corporation, March 2007. (9 pp)

T. McGeer.  
Principles of walking and running. In Advances in Comparative and
Environmental Physiology 11: Mechanics of Animal Locomotion
. R. McN.
Alexander, ed. Berlin: Springer-Verlag 1992.

T. McGeer.
Dynamics and control of bipedal locomotion. Journal of Theoretical
Biology
163, 277-314, 1993.

T. McGeer.  
Passive dynamic biped catalogue, 1991.  Proc. 2nd Int. Symp.
Experimental Robotics
. Toulouse, June 1991.

T. McGeer.
Passive walking with knees. Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics &
Automation
. Cincinnati, May 1990.

T. McGeer.
Passive bipedal running. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London,
Series B
, 240(1297) May 1990.

T. McGeer.
Passive dynamic walking.  International Journal of Robotics Research  
9(2) April 1990.

T McGeer.  
Passive bipedal running. Simon Fraser University CSS-ISS TR 89-02,
1989 (53 pp)

T. McGeer.
Stability and control of two-dimensional bipedal walking.  Simon
Fraser University CSS-ISS TR 88-01, 1988 (60 pp)

T McGeer.
Passive dynamic walking. Simon Fraser University CSS-ISS TR 88-02,
1988. (51 pp)

T. McGeer, L. Palmer.
Wobbling, toppling, and forces of contact. American
Journal of Physics
57(12) December 1989.

T. McGeer.  
Wing design for minimum drag with practical constraints.  Journal of
Aircraft
21(11) November 1984.

T. McGeer, I. Kroo.  
Fundamental comparison of canard and conventional
configurations. Journal of Aircraft 20(11) November 1983.

E.J. Durbin and T. McGeer.  
An airspeed vector sensor for V/STOL aircraft.  
Journal of Aircraft 19(6), June 1982.  (Also US patent 4,680,962 1987)

T. McGeer.  
The Intern's Lover.  (1998)