Taking to the skies: GIK team to battle it out in flying competition

SWABI:

Students and academia of Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology said on Friday that a team would be sent to participate in a remote control aircraft flying contest in the United States in April.

Organised by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the contest will be held in Tucson, Arizona from April 10 to 12. Journalists were told during a detailed briefing that the Cessna Aircraft Company and Raytheon Missile Systems had sponsored the event.

The students’ entry was accepted and the AIAA advised them to start preparations. A total of 84 teams from reputed universities across the world will battle it out in the competition and GIK Institute’s Avrocar was the only Pakistani unit that was selected. “This is the result of the valuable guidance from GIK’s academia and hard work,” said team leader Humbal bin Usman.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 14^th, 2015.