Huma: University of Maryland; 1st Place Graduate Category
AeroLay: Georgia Institue of Technology; 1st Place Undergraduate Category
Fairfax, Virginia, USA — The Vertical Flight Society (VFS) today announces the winners of its 41st Annual Student Design Competition. The team of University of Maryland took first place in the graduate category and Georgia Institute of Technology in the undergraduate category. In addition, Seoul National University took Best New Graduate Entrant honors and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Aviation and Aerospace University was the Best New Undergraduate Entrant. The US Army’s DEVCOM Army Research Lab was the sponsor of this year’s competition, supporting a total of $12,500 in prize money.
Each year, the VFS competition challenges students to design a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft that meets specified requirements, providing a practical exercise for engineering students at colleges and universities to promote student interest in VTOL engineering and technology.
Academic teams from around the world submitted entries in this year’s competition, with a total of 20 proposals — eight graduate teams and twelve undergraduate teams — submitted by 16 different schools from seven different countries and six different US states. Executive summaries for the top-winning entries from the 41st Student Design Competition are available at www.vtol.org/sdc, along with past winners.
The 41st Annual Student Design Competition (2023-2024) was entitled, “Multi-Mission Modular UAS for Disaster Relief.” The goal of this year’s request for proposal (RFP) was to design a multi-mission, modular, VTOL uncrewed aircraft system (UAS). Teams had to design an aircraft that was required to take-off and land vertically from the deck of ship in high-wings and gusty conditions, cruise to and from the site of disaster, and serve as a long-endurance communications relay, or land vertically to deliver relief supplies.
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