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
Unmanned Aircraft Systems Engineering from North Dakota made Outback Challenge history yesterday. They were the first team ever to fly into the search area, find Joe, and deliver his water . The achievement was hard won they had difficulties on day one, from their blog. Dave passed the manual flight portion of the flights and we landed the aircraft and prepared...
PERTH—Unmanned aircraft are flying around Shark Bay in Western Australia’s mid-north coast in a trial to see whether military-style drones can help monitor and conserve marine mammals. In an Australian first, Murdoch University’s Dr Amanda Hodgson has been funded by the Australian Marine Mammal Centre to investigate if Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are a useful alternative to manned aircraft...
Congratulations go to Team Robota, the only team to pass scrutineering both ground and air first time at the Outback Challenge yesterday. They will attempt their Search and Rescue run at 0800 tommorrow. Watch live video from UAV Outback Challenge 2010 on Justin.tv The field very quickly depleted to five airframes during the morning. Muroc, Latitude 38S,North Dakota are all...
Already Down to 8 teams for the Search an Rescue Challenge, OpenUAS and Swinburne Uni both out before registration. The remaining teams will this morning register and prepare for scrutineers. The weather already looks kinder than last year with light North Westerly winds forecast for Monday and Tuesday. Lets hope all the teams get through today. Good luck one and...
A press release from Australian start up UAVs Australia:- UAVs Australia is a subsidiary of Three Step Enterprises. Being founded in late 2008, UAVs Australia has become Australia’s PREMIER UAV supplier of Unmanned Aerial Solutions. UAVs Australia has an ethos to provide the customer with the best experience possible. If UAVs Australia is not doing this, our company is...
D2 videos trickle onto the web, the D2 videos are to prove to the judges that the bottle drop works and the aircraft continues to fly safely afterwards. It also shows pre flight checks. News on the street is that at least two teams, have suffered some pretty major airframe issues during testing. Team Rocky were using a delta...
UAS manufacturer YellowPlane began flight testing their new rapid mapping wing for disaster response teams Monday, 16 Aug 2010. The electrically powered 1.45 metre wingspan flying wing is capable of lifting lightweight sensors for 15 minutes over incident scenes. The brief is to quickly map areas that have been affected by natural disasters and increase the situational awareness of teams moving...
Earth Skys Lindsay Patterson reports an unusual use of sUAS A team of scientists in Australia is developing aerial drones – small, unmanned aircraft – to track the movements of what’s expected to be an unusually large plague of locusts this year. Greg Sword: One of the things that makes locusts a very important crop pest, is that they’re...
Outback Challenge entry, Project Andromeda have unveiled a slightly modified airframe for the September UAV search and rescue challenge. Read more at their blog http://www.projectandromeda.com.au/blog/ Bookmark It Hide Sites
