As we are rapidly approaching the official release of the Albatross line of aircraft, we thought there would be no better way of saying thank you than by giving away a free airframe to someone in the community. As such we have decided a design contest is in order for the best paint scheme, with the winning designer receiving a free airframe incorporating his/her design.
We'll do our best to get the livery as an added color scheme option but thought this would be a good way to engage the community as we get ready for the release and getting this aircraft into your hands.
The contest is open as of this posting and will finish on November 10th. The designs must be possible from a production and manufacturing perspective (painting/vinyl). There must be an emphasis on orientation and visibility (i.e., contrasting colors), meanwhile maintaining an appealing and good looking aircraft. In that, we are excited and can't wait to see what you all come up with and to get the airframes out to you.
** We are looking for a color scheme that is highly visible, and good with orientation. Conventional aircraft paintjobs are preferred, but we will consider everything. We will accept ANY format. We encourage every design, no matter your artistic ability! If you need to print out the templates, color with crayon, and email us a picture, we don't mind, after all it is the design that counts! So send us your Illustrator, PNG, BMP, JPEG, MS Paint, or even hand drawn design, we will gladly take it into consideration! Ideas can either be emailed to us via the email provided below, they can be uploaded to this blog, or any other contest related posting we have made on other websites.**
Let the designs begin, we look forward to seeing them!
The Applied Aero Team
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http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/applied-aeronautics-and-the-albatross-uas
http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/introducing-the-albatross-uav-project
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@Edward I never had a problem with the Mylar rainbow prismatic tape on gliders.
@Greg, have you tried that stuff? Any issues with RF or anything like that? I wonder what it does from an aerodynamics standpoint - maybe someone else can chime in on that one. Foam is one thing but composite and I'd want to be more careful. Cool idea though.
She's a beauty
If you use sheets of this material you can see it a long way off. We used to use this type of reflective material on the leading edge of RC gliders, you can see it when it is heading directly for you. The way it catches the sun, it is almost like having strobe lights on the model.
Though after seeing them side by side, I like Greg's more.
Similarly to Greg, I went for visibility. Sorry for quality, I'm only using an old version on Powerpoint.
Dan, did you intend to post other profiles as well, or just the side?
Greg, that is definitely visible!
Keep them coming!
I'm not an artist but I think this would be great for visibility, Use a prismatic yellow green decal material. Right and left are the same.
I'm about as far from an artist as they come...but here's my preliminary idea. I'll have to spend some more time with photoshop.
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