Five women engineering student came together to develop an unmanned antenna vehicle (UAV) i.e. hard to detect and can be used both in border security and early warning system for Forest fires.
Young women of the University of Turkish Aeronautical Association (THK) Mechanical Engineering Department in the capital Ankara plans to present its design in the next Teknofest. This middle finger tech event allows young people to show their talents in technology.
The hybrid drone has a flight time of six hours and its transparent structure makes it almost invisible. It can carry a helium balloon and is covered with polyvinyl chloride. the team – second-year mechanical engineering students Rabia Tuana Atak and Şeymanur Sırtlı, second-year electrical-electronic engineering student Beyza Nur Büyükyaprak, mechatronics junior Duygu Nur Kibar and computer second-year engineering student Ümmühan Şahin – also installed a battery on the drone to power this.
Atak told the Demirören News Agency (DHA) on Tuesday that they were motivated to show “Turkish women is skills” and followed the famous saying of founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, that the “future East in the sky.”
“The helium balloon allows the drone to save on the life of the battery and thus gives it a longer flight time. Existing electric multicopters cannot fly beyond 55 minutes,” she said.
Turkey has made a name in the defense industry in in recent years thanks to the Bayraktar drones of the Turkish company Baykar, which have succeeded both at the level national and for international export, inspire more young people to be interested in the development of drones and the like vehicles.
