The demand for small unmanned air vehicles, commonly termed micro air vehicles, is rapidly increasing. Driven by applications ranging from civil search-and-rescue missions to military surveillance missions, there is a rising level of interest and investment in better vehicle designs, and miniaturized components are enabling many rapid advances.
The need to better understand fundamental aspects of flight for small vehicles has spawned a surge in high quality research in the area of micro air vehicle, or MAV research. These aircraft have a set of constraints which are, in many ways, considerably different from that of traditional aircraft and are often best addressed by a multidisciplinary approach.
Fast-response non-linear controls, nano-structures, integrated propulsion and lift mechanisms, highly flexible structures, and low Reynolds aerodynamics are just a few of the important considerations which may be combined in the execution of MAV research.
The role of the International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles is to provide the scientific and engineering community with a peer-reviewed open access journal dedicated to publishing high-quality technical articles summarizing both fundamental and applied research in this field.
The journal operates a conventional single-blind reviewing policy in which the reviewer’s name is always concealed from the authors.

Editors-in-Chief
Guido de Croon	Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Haibo Dong	University of Virginia, USA
Editorial Board
Roberto Albertani	Oregon State University, USA
Bo Cheng	Penn State University, USA
Inderjit Chopra	University of Maryland, USA
Coen de Visser	Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Tomonari Furukawa	Virginia Tech, USA
John T. Hrynuk	Army Research Lab
Hui Hu	Iowa State University, USA
Peter Ifju	University of Florida, USA
Julien Marzat	ONERA, France
Jean-Marc Moschetta	Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace, France
Bob Mulder	Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
M. R. Nayak	National Aerospace Laboratories, India
Gregory Parker	Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Stephen Prior	University of Southampton, UK
Mark Reeder	Air Force Institute of Technology, USA
Sergey Shkarayev	University of Arizona, USA
Fangbao Tian	University of New South Wales, Australia
Mingjun Wei	Kansas State University, USA