Six students, from the University of Southampton’s School of Engineering Sciences won a pan-European competition for designing, building and flying a UAV (unmanned air 
vehicle).
The Southampton team successfully test flew their winning design at Draycott Airfield, near Swindon, and were judged by an industry panel to have produced the most professional approach and to have made the most progress towards fully autonomous flight.
The team consisted of James Basham, Garry Battams, Kelvin Cheung, Will Simpson, Neil White and Patrick Yau, were supervised by Professors Jim Scanlan and Andy Keane.
Professor Scanlan comments: “There is explosive growth in the use of unmanned systems, particularly in civilian applications such as weather forecasting, surveying, traffic monitoring and agricultural applications. These applications demand low-cost solutions which the students have been able to demonstrate. These students did a fantastic job in tackling a difficult multidisciplinary task and the skills they displayed are exactly what the aerospace industry now demand in high-flying graduates.”
Read the full University press release here.
Content added on 15 March 2009.
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