An unmanned aircraft with a wingspan of 1.9 meters and weighing four kilograms – built by aeronautical and space engineering students at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology – won first place at a Tel Aviv Aviation and Space Conference. Recently, the same entry took the top prize in the recent US Design-Build-Fly competition for large and small aircraft and eighth place in the general competition against 87 other teams.
The group, supervised by Israel Aircraft Industries engineer Shlomo Tzach, were the best in the students’ project competition at the 25th Israeli Conference for Aviation and Space, which opened in Tel Aviv on Tuesday and moved to the Technion campus in Haifa on Wednesday. The US conference was organized by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the main organization dealing with the development of aviation technology and infrastructure.
“This project contributed a lot to the aviation engineering students, especially in their professional career. It was carried out like an IAI project, with purchasing, logistics, coordination and a working plan that updated weekly,” said Tzach, who graduated from the Technion in 1970 and has been working for the IAI for 42 years. He has trained hundreds of engineering students.
“This generation is not less talented than the one before it. A group that carries out such a project knows what development is.”
Every year, the TechnoRosh competition at the Technion is held for engineering students who carry out unusual feats after building objects.
Source: The Jerusalem Post