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  • T3
    Krzysztof Bosak September 23, 2010 at 5:09am
    @Max, search area is so large I don;t think quadcoper would guarantee a success with less than 30km/h sustained cruise speed.
  • Max September 21, 2010 at 11:44pm
    The search area is some distance away from the launch point. In my opinion a quad would be ideal if 1 hour of flight time was easily achievable.
  • Developer
    Randy September 21, 2010 at 6:28pm
    Two questions...
    1) all entrants are planes because they simply need to stay aloft longer than a heli or quad every could?
    2) no arduPilot entrants this year? Maybe this is the year of ArduPilotMega creation, next year is where it's on one of the winning entrants.
  • Max September 21, 2010 at 5:48pm
    Not long to go now! :)
    All this rain is starting to clear today too.... fingers crossed!
  • David September 21, 2010 at 5:16pm
    Team EagleEye from the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Engineering Lab at the University of North Dakota is getting ready to leave for Australia tomorrow morning! You can follow our progress on the blog we set http://unduav.blogspot.com/.
    UND Outback Challenge
    Follow The Unmanned Aircraft Systems Engineering team as they compete in the 2010 UAV Outback Challenge in Kingaroy Australia
  • Chris McNair September 21, 2010 at 12:29pm
    Multiple million dollar deals have been thrown out the door for missing important technical information. It’s the name of the game!
  • T3
    Mark Griffin September 21, 2010 at 8:13am
    Looking forward to the coverage of the event. Great to see that Max will be broadcasting live!

    Our team,Y-UAV, met all requirements for Deliverable 2 and we demonstrated them in the videos. However, we were disqualified because we didn't clearly mention one technical point in our documentation (although we implemented it). We were disappointed with that news and will have to enter next year.
  • PeteD September 21, 2010 at 6:06am
    This year will be the year, i can feel it.
  • Moderator
    Gary Mortimer September 21, 2010 at 4:15am
    If you would like to see as many of the qualifying videos and teams as I could find, they are here I am going to ask a couple of people, including Max to send some stills and reports back. I will be buying my VB to support the Victoria teams and sitting down to watch ;-)
  • Ron Jacobs September 20, 2010 at 9:59pm
    Sweet. Look forward to seeing our coverage Max.
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