{"418291":{"#nid":"418291","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Teams Excel in AHS International Helicopter Design Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGraduate and Undergraduate design teams did exceptionally well in the 2012 American Helicopter Society\u0027s design competition.\u0026nbsp; The Georgia Tech\/University of Liverpool graduate team\u0027s coaxial helicopter with a counter-rotating auxiliary propeller system titled \u0022Advanced Racing Concept (ARC)\u0022 took second place in their category.\u0026nbsp; The Georgia Tech\/Middle East Technical University undergraduate team\u0027s \u0022Badger\u0022, a single-pilot, highly maneuverable, intermeshing rotorcraft system took first place!\u0026nbsp; Prof. Dan Schrage served as the faculty advisor for both teams.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProf. Schrage\u0027s teams have won first or second place every year since he arrived on our campus.\u0026nbsp; AE\u0027s undergraduate teams likewise have won first or second place every year since 2007 when the capstone design sequence in helicopter design was created.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe AHS Student Design Competition challenges students to design a vertical lift aircraft meeting specified requirements and provides a practical exercise for engineering students at accredited colleges and universities around the world.\u0026nbsp; The competition promotes student interest in vertical flight technology.\u0026nbsp; Each of the first- and second- place winning teams are invited to the AHS Annual Forum and Technology Display to present detailed proposals.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Graduate and Undergraduate design teams did exceptionally well in the 2012 American Helicopter Society\u0027s design competition."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-06-24 13:39:20","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:49","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-08-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-08-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"129781","name":"AHS"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["communications@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}