It’s a medical search and rescue requiring a 10km trip in each direction and a precision point landing “in a clearing”. And the ability to carry a much smaller payload… just a “blood sample”…
I’m guessing a lot of multi copters will be involved … but i personally want to do a VTOL of some sort.
VTOL? Count me in! Gonna be fun!
Do you have any designs in mind?
I so want to enter this comp.
If you’re interested in the OBC please check the UAV cause thread. I proposed a meeting there to discuss if we are stupid enough to give it a go.
Something conceptually like one of these appeals to me:
or
Or
https://pixhawk.org/platforms/vtol/tbs_caipirinha_vtol
… but it will probably need to be a bit bigger as I expect we’ll also need to attach a computer and a vision system and a lidar and a failsafe system and a parachute and at least one long range telemetry radio and a camera gimbal and lots of wires…