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.…
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Triumph and tragedy at the Outback Challenge
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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,…
UAS for marine conservation in Australia
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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…
Just one team makes it through scrutineers at Outback Challenge 2010.
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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…
Outback Challenge gets under way.
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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…
UAVs Australia
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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…
Outback Challenge update
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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…
Firecracker for disaster response
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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…
University of Sydney to track Locusts
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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…
Project Andromeda reveal airframe
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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/
