Two engineering students from the Vishwakarma Institute of Technology (VIT) bagged awards at the Society of Automotive Engineers' (SAE) International's prestigious 'Aero Design West 2011' competition held in Texas, US, recently.

Varun Garg, who is a third-year mechanical engineering student, and Prasha Sarwate, a final-year chemical engineering student, combined their efforts to design a remote-controlled micro aircraft that withstood almost all evaluation parameters at the contest, co-organised and hosted by military aircraft manufacturer Lockheed Martin.

The team won the first prize in operational availability and third prize each in the micro category and for lifting of highest payload. "The aircraft designed by Varun and Prasha has a wing span of 53 inches and a fuselage (aircraft body) of 30.4 inches width and flies on a two battery power system. Made of Balsa wood and carbon fibre, its empty weight is 800 gm and has the capacity to lift payload up to 1,750 gm,"

News from http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/Pune-students-bag-awards-at-aero-design-contest-in-US/articleshow/7976180.cms

Superb.  


Gotta ask my cousin about them.Even he is in VIT.

Are these the "red plane" guys from pancard clubs ?

What red plane?

Btw, r u flying this weekend?

The boy girl duo who were testing a payload carrier plane with Praddy...
Yep, i'll be there this weekend. Will also bring some paper streamers

yes amit they are the same duo who were with praddy at baner ...

AMA members of SBMJCE win at the SAE AERO USA,their message is appended:

Sir,

Yes we did win the prize,

we got the first place for lifting the highest payload of 5.4 pouds in the microclass

and secured second place in operational availability.

Overall we stood 5th place overall in the event.

The ama card really helped us , they did accept and let me fly there ,

Thank you very much sir for your help and support.

Team Drone
Shreyas vijay reddy

Photos of the winning team can be seen at :www.amai.in