UAV Competition: Winners are know!

Written by Super User on 23 May 2014.

The Short Course on UAVs and Small Aircraft Design including the 1st VKI International UAV Competition took place on May 20-22, 2014 at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics and was a great success with around 130 participants.
The Course was co-organized by Mr. Didier Breyne from OAD and Dr. Jean Muylaert from the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics.

This first competition on the design of high-speed UAVs involved at the beginning 17 teams from over 100 students. After the first internal report, 13 teams were still in competition. The first prize was a wind tunnel test campaign in the Transonic / Supersonic facility at the VKI for the 3 first teams. The second price was a 20 license software ADS developed by the OAD. The third price offered by Willem Anemaat was a dedicated book by Dr. Jon Roskam entitled “Lessons Learned in Aircraft Design”.

The teams in competition were coming from all over the world:

• A§M 1, Université de Liège, BELGIUM
• A§M 2, Université de Liège, BELGIUM
• A§M 3, Université de Liège, BELGIUM
• AERODRONE, Middle East Technical University, TURKEY
• AEROMYS, Federal University of Minas Gerais, BRAZIL
• BME-HEAT, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HUNGARY
• BRUAIR, Université Libre de Bruxelles / Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
• EUROAVIA HELSINKI, Aalto University, FINLAND
• GOSHAWK, Middle East Technical University, TURKEY
• KUZGUN, Middle East Technical University / Anadolu University, TURKEY
• ORION, Middle East Technical University, TURKEY
• ROLLING WAVES, Universidade FUMEC, BRAZIL
• SKY TEAM-SANT USB, San Buenaventura University, COLOMBIA

Congratulations to the winners:

	1st Price BRUAIR From the University: Université Libre de Bruxelles / Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Members of the team: Prof. Patrick Hendrick, Simon Abraham, Nicolas Cormond, Pieter Dehairs, Matthieu Detavernier, Michael Hinderdael, Laurent Taymans
	1st Price AERODRONE From the University: Middle East Technical University, Turkey Members of the team: Prof. Serkan Özgen, Enes Aydın, Taylan Büyüksural, Ufuk Erdem, Osman Güngör, Mustafa Gürler, Mete İnekçi, Fatma Karagöz, Zeynep Yaşa
	1st Price AEROMYS From the University: Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Members of the team: Prof. Paulo Henriques Iscold Andrade de Oliveira, Rodrigo Amorim Torres, Matheus Monken Ganem, Joel Laguardia Campos, Sergio Lucio Lopes Duarte, Luciano Magno Fragola Barbosa
	2nd Price A§M 2 From the University: Université de Liège, Belgium Members of the team: Prof. Grigorios Dimitriadis, Prof. Ludovic Noels, Ga&eumltan Brouwers, Adrien Crovato, Colin Defise, Tina Freches, Valère Hotterbeex, Sébastien Reyes-Vermot, Veronika Simikova
	3st Price A§M 3 From the University: Université de Liège, Belgium Members of the team: Prof. Grigorios Dimitriadis, Prof. Ludovic Noels, Mohamed Benmouna, Hüseyin Güner, Michael Jeunehomme, Thomas Lambert, Adrien Moray, Leo Schlembach, Mithat Umay, Mickaël Vanderliden

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