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New format for international UAV Outback Challenge to boost competition

Posted by Gary Mortimer on March 16, 2011 at 12:30am
Rod WalkerThe international $50,000 prize UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) Challenge – Outback Rescue competition held in approved airspace at Kingaroy, Queensland, will become a bi-annual 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 more high school teams the chance to enter.

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http://www.suasnews.com/2011/03/4482/new-format-for-international-uav-outback-challenge-to-boost-competition/
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  • John Cousins March 18, 2011 at 7:47pm
    See you there... whenever that is!
  • PeteD March 17, 2011 at 5:06am
    bi-annual sounds good to me. Hopefully it will mean more teams can compete.
  • David March 16, 2011 at 12:10pm
    Ha! Seeing what you have done with your GCS, I believe you could pull it off :)
  • Paul Mather March 16, 2011 at 12:09pm
    I need to find a way to ship a plane directly to the competition field....and have it unbox itself and take-off....then pilot it from here in Ohio.... Two years should be more than enough time to design and build that :)
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    Julian March 16, 2011 at 11:37am
    this is great. I recently started an Unmanned Development Team at Cooper Union in Manhattan that has its sights set on this competition in the coming years. This gives us more chances to compete and, hopefully, win ;)
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