Hats off to the CyberQuad company they are doing their best to get their products out there. Coastal patrol at tourist beaches would indeed be a great application. From In My Community SWIMMERS in the 2011 Cockburn Crawl at Rockingham Beach next weekend will be kept extra safe by a high-tech unmanned aerial vehicle hovering above the water. Race...
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX: MDA), a provider of essential information solutions, announced today that it has signed contract amendments related to its Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) surveillance service for the Australian Defence Force. The first amendment provides authorization to provide additional hours of UAV surveillance operations that will support deployed Australian Defence Forces inAfghanistan. The second amendment...
The international $50,000 prize UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) Challenge – Outback Rescue competition held in approved airspace at Kingaroy, Queensland, will become a biennial event from 2011. Challenge co-founder and ARCAA director, QUT’s Professor Rod Walker said the changes were being made to the Challenge to give search and rescue teams more time to gain autonomous flight experience and...
An eventful drive to the Outback Challenge for Scott and Ian, sadly there troubles continued and the were not able to fly in this years competition. Joe’s just going to have to keep waiting. In their own words. Melbourne UAV is once again entering the Open Search and Rescue challenge section of the 2011 Australian Outback UAV Challenge. After getting...
Australian company to bring flying saucer like designs to UAS world. The business plan includes a sensible development programme that started with the creation of a small ‘mini’ SkyLifter as a lab test model to demonstrate the principles of the aircraft’s arrangement. That project was called ‘Betty’ and more detail is on the next page. On the success of...
Well, the dust has settled on the competition now and we made it home after a very long drive from Kingaroy. Well done to UND and Robota, a great effort from both teams to get as far as they did. Unbelievably, they were the only two teams that flew in the S&R competition this year; Joe was nearly rescued,...
Congratulations again to all that entered, here are the full results of the 2010 Outback Challenge:- Search and Rescue 1. University of North Dakota 70.1 2. Team Robota 52.7 3. Latitude 38UAV 25.6 4. MUROC...
I guess all the clues were there from his tweets. Interesting video that shows the scene of the drop and what the guys at Joe were up to. Especially interesting is the radio chat. Little bit disappointed that he was not hidden a little better, the white topped post and car would have stood out very well. It remains an...
Pressure of work was cited as the reason for not making it to the Outback Challenge. From their updated blog it looks like they have been busy. The blended wing airframe carries their bespoke autopilot and is conventionally powered. The designers challenge of mounting a camera on a wing in the most aerodynamic way rears its ugly head again....
Coming ever so close to winning the money this year hearty congratulations must be sent to the team from North Dakota. Winning the documentary prize was Latitude 38 UAV from Melbourne. The Winner of the Airborne Delivery Challenge, Calamvale Hornets. As soon as teams start releasing the documentary’s I shall start posting them here Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d1814').each(...
