[Canberrauav] Day 7 Recap (Day 5 OBC)
Stephen Dade stephen_dade at hotmail.com 
Fri Sep 26 21:27:48 EST 2014 

Hi everyone,

Today was the final day of the OBC. 5 teams ended up flying:

Aerotournous - One of the multicopter teams. Took off and made it to the 
search area. Something went wrong during the mission and it attempted to 
return. It was seen to be attempting to land and flipped over at 10m 
altitude. Heavy damage resulted.
CanberraUAV - Successfully found Joe and dropped a bottle to him with 
2.6m accuracy. The takeoff and landing were a bit "exciting" and were 
not up to our usual standard.
Team Thunder - Successfully found Joe and dropped a bottle to him.
Condor - Took off and entered the search area. They suffered a camera 
failure and returned to the airport.
MelAvio - After some technical difficulties with their camera, took off 
and entered the search area. The suffered a datalink loss and returned 
to the airport. Their landing was quite heavy and damaged their nose 
section.

Rescue Robotics (the other multicopter team) pulled out due to technical 
issues.

After all the flying, we had the awards ceremony. The team leader of 
MelAvio (Pawel Wozniak) won the airmanship award and CanberraUAV won the 
Search & Rescue Challenge.

The rest of the afternoon was spent celebrating in a local pub with the 
Canadian team and we later moved to a nearby winery with the Swiss and a 
few local teams.

Tomorrow morning will be spent packing and we should all be back in 
Canberra sometime Sunday.

And thus ends the 2014 UAV Outback Challenge!



Stephen

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