ADDI hosted the Air Cargo Challenge in Aachen from 9 to 13 July 2024, following our win at the 2022 competition in Munich.
The competition Air Cargo Challenge was originally initiated in 2003, inspired by the North American DBF (design-build-fly) aircraft university competitions. Since then, the competition was held every two years and, from 2007, the challenge gained a European projection. In 2024, the competition was organized by the Aachen Drone Development Initiative (ADDI), which won the competition in 2022. It is a competition for university students and postgraduates in the engineering or science area and was created to stimulate interest in the fields of aeronautics. In this competition, each team gets the chance to test and improve their skills by competing with other teams in a design-, build- and fly competition.
ADDI is exclusively managed by students and former students of RWTH Aachen University. They work as non-political and non-profit associations to promote and spread Aeronautical Engineering. The Air Cargo Challenge offers students the unique opportunity to develop a multidisciplinary and challenging project from its beginning to the finished product. By participating at ACC, the teams can test their knowledge and, at the same time, get involved with a wide range of challenges that students will find in their future professional careers: technical, interpersonal, and financial challenges as well as strict deadlines. To participate in the Air Cargo Challenge competition, the team should design, document, build and fly a radio-controlled aircraft with the best and highest combination of large payload, excellent efficiency, and high speed.
The aircraft must comply with the following competition’s regulations, including design restrictions such as pre-defined motor and transport box dimensions.
Participating teams
| Number | Team Name | University |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | ITU ATA Team | Istanbul Technical University |
| 02 | UVigo Aerotech | Universidade de Vigo |
| 03 | AeroTéc - ATLAS | Instituto Superior Técnico - Universidade de Lisboa |
| 04 | WUT AeroDesign | Warsaw University of Technology |
| 05 | UBI Aeronautics Team | Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI) |
| 06 | HERMES NTUA | National Technical University of Athens |
| 07 | M.ACH. Air Cargo Challenge Team | University Of Patras |
| 08 | AEROATLAS | National University of Science and Technology "Politehnica" of Bucharest |
| 09 | CCX Corvus Corax | Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II" |
| 10 | Akamodell Stuttgart | University of Stuttgart |
| 11 | ICARUS PoliTO | Politecnico di Torino |
| 12 | Aristotle Space and Aeronautics Team | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
| 13 | Rakshak | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay |
| 14 | AeroUD | University of Udine |
| 15 | UGA | University of Glasgow |
| 16 | Team Albatross | Tampere University |
| 17 | SUAVE | The University of Sydney |
| 18 | FlyMi | Politecnico di Milano |
| 19 | Xtra2 UPV | Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) |
| 20 | BEOAVIA | University of Belgrade |
| 21 | Team Garuthmann | Jyothy Institute of Technology |
| 22 | VANTUS AeroTeam | Universidad de Sevilla |
| 23 | LeanIng Project | Università di Pisa |
| 24 | THU-AIR | Tsinghua University |
| 25 | UCA&Air | Universidad de Cádiz |
| 26 | TUM fliegt gut! | Technische Universität München |
| 27 | HuskyWorks | University of Washington |
| 28 | Chicken Wings BUT | Brno University of Technology |
| 29 | EUROAVIA Rzeszow | Rzeszów University of Technology |
| 30 | Lift UP | Università di Padova |
| 31 | CTU Aerolab | Czech technical university in Prague |
ACC 2024 Participation Handbook
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