Air Cargo Challenge 2024
Coming Summer 2024
All slots for Teams have been filled, as such no further registration will be possible
Preliminary Date: 09 – 13.07.2024
INTRODUCTION
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 is
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.
Note the Instructions in the application Excel sheet. The Data_photo form must be send in PDF format. The application form must be send back in the .xlsx format.
The Efficiency formula was adjusted after long discussion to avoid regularly awarding 0 points.
Team Name
- 01: ITU ATA Team
- 02: UVigo Aerotech
- 03: AeroTéc – ATLAS
- 04: WUT AeroDesign
- 05: UBI Aeronautics Team
- 06: HERMES NTUA
- 07: M.ACH. Air Cargo Challenge Team
- 08: AEROATLAS
- 09: CCX Corvus Corax
- 10: Akamodell Stuttgart
- 11: ICARUS PoliTO
- 12: Aristotle Space and Aeronautics Team
- 13: Rakshak
- 14: AeroUD
- 15: UGA
- 16: Team Albatross
- 17: SUAVE
- 18: FlyMi
- 19: Xtra2 UPV
- 20: BEOAVIA
- 22: VANTUS AeroTeam
- 23: LeanIng Project
- 24: THU-AIR
- 25: UCA&Air
- 26: TUM fliegt gut!
- 27: HuskyWorks
- 28: Chicken Wings BUT
- 29: EUROAVIA Rzeszow
- 30: Lift UP
- 31: AeroLab
University
- Istanbul Technical University
- Universidade de Vigo
- Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa
- Warsaw University of Technology
- Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI)
- National Technical University of Athens
- University of Patras
- National University of Science and Technology ‚Politehnica‘ of Bucharest
- Università degli Studi di Napoli „Federico II“
- University of Stuttgart
- Politecnico di Torino
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
- University of Udine
- University of Glasgow
- Tampere University
- The University of Sydney
- Politecno di Milano
- Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
- University of Belgrade
- Universidad de Sevilla
- Università di Pisa
- Tsinghua University
- Universidad de Cádiz
- Technische Universität München
- University of Washington
- Brno University of Technology
- Rzeszów Universyty of Technology
- Università di Padova
- CTU Prague