GoAERO Offers $2 Million in Prizes for Autonomous Rescue Aircraft
One of the most exciting concepts associated with autonomous aircraft is the notion that it could be dispatched to someone needing a remote rescue so they could fly themselves to safety. Fostering such a capability is the thinking behind the GoAERO (Aerial Emergency Response Operations) Prize competition launched in February.
Accessible at
www.goaeroprize.com, the GoAERO competition awards a total of $2 million in prizes over three years to autonomous aircraft development teams.
“Along with partners such as Boeing, NASA, RTX, and Honeywell, plus a myriad of organizations worldwide, GoAERO has created this competition to drive the development of autonomous emergency response flyers,” said GoAERO CEO and founder Gwen Lighter. These flyers are meant to be less expensive and easier to operate than helicopters, but with far more useful capacity than drones currently provide. “What we’re looking for are emergency response aircraft that sit between helicopters and drones,” she said.
The prizes associated with the GoAERO competition will be divided across three phases: design, a working prototype, and a final fly-off when the competing aircraft perform the necessary tasks associated with the self-rescue concept.
“We are still accepting new teams, and we need the best and the brightest to join us to save lives,” Lighter said. “If you are even remotely interested, I would encourage you to go to our website at
www.goaeroprize.com and join us to form a team, as a sponsor or as a mentor. There’s so many different ways to get involved, and we’re hoping that everyone interested just reaches out to us.”
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