Applied Aeronautics - Albatross Design Contest

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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

Previous Links:
http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/exciting-news-from-the-applied-aeronautics-team

http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/applied-aeronautics-and-the-albatross-uas

http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/introducing-the-albatross-uav-project

http://appliedaeronautics.com/

Email:
Info@appliedaeronautics.com

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  • Ok...November 10th..give us the good news, can we order one of these bad boys soon?!
  • I am herewith officially applying for the chance of winning one of this beauties3701869919?profile=original3701869828?profile=original3701869940?profile=original

  • Looking forward to replace my skyhunter with this beauty.

    Nice job...

  • Reto, thanks for the great links! These types of designs are ideal for visibility and orientation.

    We have gotten many great designs and appreciate them all. Hopefully Reto's links might be useful to those not quite sure how to go about a highly visible paintjob

    Sincerely,
    Applied.

    PS, Reto where is your design? ;)
  • 100KM

    Hi guys

    I recommend to follow this advice:

    http://www.jcrc.com/news/articles/article-colortheory.htm

    http://www.jcrc.com/news/articles/ColorSchemeSuggestion.jpg

    Comprehensively explained, well-founded, thoroughly tested in all conditions and hard to improve.

    Cheers, Reto

  • Mammon - thanks for the design!

    Dan - Soon! ;) We are as anxious to get these to everyone!

  • Please just release this thing so we can buy it soon!

  • My two cents. May or may not have gone a bit out of hand with the colors, but there ya go.3701860616?profile=original

  • Quick update - Wanted to say thanks to everyone sending in drawings and posting on the blog. They look great! Keep it up - we're really excited about these! We can't wait for everyone to fly the airframes!
  • @Greg - thanks. I like the idea for visibility but would want to see it in person. Could be a cool idea especially if a design was created around this stuff. I'm going to do a little hunting around on this.

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