UAV Challenge - Outback Rescue

Competitors get ready, judges take your places and locals get out your binoculars!

The UAV Challenge - Outback Rescue will be held for the fourth time in Kingaroy later this year.

The UAV Challenge requires teams to design, build and fly an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that can undertake search and rescue operations to a lost bushwalker.

The Challenge features two major categories: an open category for university teams and UAV enthusiasts and a high school category.

Since its inception in 2007, the Challenge continues to grow each year and given the amount of media attention, both national and international, it gets, organisers are hopeful that this year's Challenge may well be the biggest and most competitive yet.

This year, Aviation Development Australia Limited, organisers of the Southern Hemisphere's largest airshow, the Australian International Airshow (Avalon), will join foundation partners the Queensland Government and the Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation (ARCAA, a joint initiative of QUT and CSIRO) to support the 2010 event.

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