{"id":610,"date":"2012-10-10T14:13:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T14:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/?p=610"},"modified":"2012-10-10T14:19:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T14:19:47","slug":"canberra-rescue-drone-wins-10000-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/2012\/10\/10\/canberra-rescue-drone-wins-10000-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Canberra Rescue Drone Wins $10,000 Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/02b954f.netsolhost.com\/images\/708_AURescue.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12297\" title=\"Outback Joe Rescue\" src=\"https:\/\/02b954f.netsolhost.com\/images\/708_AURescue.jpg\" alt=\"Outback Joe Rescue\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Canberra team has won $10,000 for developing an un-manned aerial vehicle (UAV) which could help rescue stranded bushwalkers. Team Leader Stephen Dade and his team \u2018Canberra UAV\u2019 claimed first prize at the Outback Rescue Challenge after their UAV successfully located a dummy bushwalker.<\/p>\n<p>The team of 10 amateurs worked for 18 months developing and building their unmanned aircraft, designed to send details of missing bushwalkers to a rescue crew. The prize winning UAV weighs 16 kilograms (35 lbs) and has a wingspan of\u00a02.5 meter (8.2 ft). The UAV is powered by a small gasoline engine similar to those found in one-third to quarter scale model aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The three day &#8220;Outback Challenge&#8221; was held in the bushland around Kingaroy in Queensland Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Click the link below to read the complete article by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/elise--pianegonda\/4246604\" target=\"_blank\">Elise\u00a0 Pianegonda<\/a>\u00a0in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\">ABC News (AU)<\/a>&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2012-10-08\/canberra-rescue-drone-wins-10000-prize\/4301930?section=act\" target=\"_blank\">Canberra rescue drone wins $10,000 prize<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rich Hanson<br \/>\nAMA Government and Regulatory Affairs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Canberra team has won $10,000 for developing an un-manned aerial vehicle (UAV) which could help rescue stranded bushwalkers. Team Leader Stephen Dade and his team \u2018Canberra UAV\u2019 claimed first prize at the Outback Rescue Challenge after their UAV successfully located a dummy bushwalker. The team of 10 amateurs worked [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}