1st Flight of HumbleBee
HumbleBee is flying! On Sunday 3rd of December a special event took place. The first prototype of our competition aircraft HumbleBee had its maiden flight. All our expectations were surpassed. HumbleeBee impressed with very good handling and flying characteristics. We...
AIRCONTACT’17
The AirContact’17 fair took place on 21 & 22 November 2017. This years slogan was „2050: Vision and Goals of the Aerospace Industry.“ The joanneum Aeronautics DBF Team could, thanks to the support of ACstyria and FH JOANNEUM, participate in this event. For the...
DBF18 Team is accepted!
We are in! Our aircraft proposal has officially been accepted for the competition and we are under the top 100 teams worldwide! This years task is as challenging as in the years before. The objective is to design a dual purpose regional and business aircraft which has...
Summer Spritzerstandl 2017
A great Spritzerstandl in the middle of a really choppy weather. Our first Spritzerstandl took place at the FH court in Graz on 31st of May. It was a great success and we really want to thank everybody for joining us though it was temporarely rainy! After the short...
This was DBF17, Videotagebuch
Day 01 - Vorstellung am Grand Canyon Das jA DBF17 Team ist erfolgreich in Amerika angekommen und auf dem Weg nach Tucson. Day 02 - Crossbow geliefert und Reihung der Startplätze Verkündung unseres Startplatzes und Vorstellung der Unterkunft in Tucson, Arizona. Day 03...
Thanks for the support: qpunkt
Die qpunkt GmbH wurde im Jahr 2008 gegründet, ist seit Februar 2014 Mitglied der AVL Group und hat sich, als innovativer Engineering-Dienstleister mit Hauptsitz in Graz (Österreich) und fünf Zweigstellen in Deutschland - Ingolstadt, München, Stuttgart, Heilbronn,...
CFK Lab Session – DIY Frames!
While our colleagues of the DBF Team are overseas fighting for a good rank in the championship (good luck over there, guys!), the Team Drone Tech guys used the now less stressful laboratory environment to roll their sleeves up and get things done. The main goal of the...
Generalversammlung 2017
Am 29.03.2017 ging an der FH JOANNEUM die 3. Generalversammlung der joanneum Aeronautics über die Bühne. Begonnen wurde mit einem Rückblick ins vergangene Vereinsjahr und den Abschlussberichten von Kassier und den Teams. Auch eine Neuwahl stand am Programm, wobei es...
Welcom on Board: AXIS Flight Training Systems GmbH
Axis – The Next Generation of Flight Simulators Axis Flight Training Systems makes the most advanced flight simulators on the market today. Their unique modular design makes them readily customizable, and they are more efficient, easier to operate and have higher ROI...
OPENHOUSE DAY – GRAZ 2017
Am 11.03.2017 konnten wir uns in unserer vollen Größe einem rießigen Publikum beim OPENHOUSE DAY der FH JOANNEUM präsentieren. Begonnen mit dem Precision-Flight-Team und deren Ikarus C42 an der Alten Poststraße, über die das Team-Drone-Tech mit verschiedensten Koptern...
OPENHOUSE 2017 | FH JOANNEUM
Upcoming Saturday (11.03.2017) we are part of the OPENHOUSE DAY of the FH JOANNEUM in GRAZ! At 11:30 we will give a prensentation in lecture hall G.AP147.004 about our actual projects and achievements. FH JOANNEUM Alte Poststraße 147 | 8020 Graz - G.AP147.004 | 11:30...
Welcome on Board: Rail Tec Arsenal
English version We are happy to introduce you to another company which supports us on our way to Tucson. The joanneum Aeronautics DBF 2017 Team would like to thank RTA for the support. Here are some information about our partner. Rail Tec Arsenal The ice age for...
Milestone achieved: Submission of Design Report
Yesterday we came one step closer to Tucson, as we submitted our Design Report to the AIAA officials. Since the design report has such a large influence on the final score, a lot of focus and ambition was needed to bring out the best possible outcome. Under the...
Welcome on Board: AeronautX Luftfahrtschule
AeronautX steht für Qualität Vor 20 Jahren gegründet, hat die AeronautX Luftfahrtschule mehrere Hundert Piloten dabei unterstützt, einen Arbeitsplatz als Linienpilot zu finden. Erfahrene Fluglehrer und bewährte Ausbildungsmethodik kombiniert mit modernem multi-media...
Brushless Motor Test Bench
We are using our study breaks at the end of the semester wisely and working on a test bench for the brushless motors used by our quadcopters. Design is nearly done, just a few more adjustments and a change of the used micro controller. Software is up and running. Stay...
AC Styria goes jAeronautics
Today we were glad to welcome two representatives of the AC Styria in our aviation lab. We showed them our nearly finished competition plane and had a nice Q&A session with them. The AC Styria already sponsored the DBF15 Team two years ago and is now thinking...
11th PLACE AFTER PROPOSAL!
11th place after the proposal submission for our DBF Team! The AIAA Design Build Fly Organisation announced the scores for the submitted proposals. We are very happy to be within the TOP15 already and we are really working hard to build a great plane. A nice detail...
Visitors from the Netherlands
Yesterday we were glad to welcome visitors from the Netherlands, exactly from the inholland university of applied sciences. This university has a partnership with the FH JOANNEUM, which enables our student colleagues exchanges during the 5th semester of the bachelors...
Creating YouTube Channel
Due to our flight sessions, we try to catch some epic pictures and videos and created our first official YouTube channel. When we first came into the drone world we benefited quite a lot of all the videos and blog out there about drones. It's important to us that we...
Prototype – First Flight
Dear Ladys and Gents, we're very happy to announce to you, that our prototype for this years contest managed to spread its wings! All went well during these first flight tests and thankfully our bird flies like a charm. We are sure you do understand that there will be...
ACstyria Luftfahrttag 2016
Dear Ladys and Gents, this update is about our booth at this years ACstyria Luftfahrttag 2016 (Day of Aviation) at Graz Airport [LOWG]. We were able to establish precious contacts to the industry and met with those, who we already and thankfully count as close...
Team Picture 2017
Dear Ladys and Gents, we start off by introducing our new team for this DBF 2017 contest. Călin Șarlă, Marco Sattlegger, Cleon Regensburger, Marie-Anne Tamaro, Patrick Graupp, Christoph Wieland, Marco Ferrares, Christoph Birnbaumer, Lukas Grabner, Peter Resch, David...
jA DBF 17 Team is accepted !
We are proud to announce that the joanneum Aeronautics DBF Team got accepted by the AIAA and is now part of the competition in April 7! During the next months the team has to build a Tube-Launched-Aircraft, which can transport at least 3 Hockey-Pucks. You can find the...
FPV Airmasters Graz
Thanks to FH Joanneum we had the opportunity to be part of the FPV Airmasters 2016 convention in the Messe Halle in Graz. We represented the whole Joanneum Aeronautics Team and the weird green electric snow mobile right in the picture. Even though the convention was...
Infineon copter.rocks challenge
After we founded the team, our first challenge was the copter.rocks project hosted by Infineon. The purpose of the challenge was not only to implement different features on Infineon's own quad-copter flight controller but also to create a sort of community. Therefore...
Final Results – Season 2016
Dear Ladys and Gents, as we recieved the final stats for this season we are happy to present them to you: Total Score: Team Maier and Janisch: Rank #7 Team Scharf and Reisner: Rank #10 Landing Score: Team Scharf and Reisner: Rank #5 Team Maier and Janisch: Rank #7...
Chilled Weekend Session
Today was a good day at the field. At least for most of us. Chris decided to take the whole payload thing to the next level and strapped another camera on his Orange 250. There was just one problem... The ESC's didn't really agree to his plan and caught fire half way...
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5th Event – Ried/Kirchheim [LOLK]
Dear Ladys and Gents, Ried/Kirchheim was our last oppurtunity to show off our skills for this season. Sadly Mr. Reisner was hindered and Mr. Gassner did his best to substitute him in this event. We actually did pretty well with rank #6 for Team Maier and Janisch and a...
Foundation of the team
Beacause of the uprising drone industry the decision to found a drone team at the FH Joanneum Graz with the Joanneum Aeronautics was kind of a given. The aim was to find students who want to extend their knowledge regarding drones in general. As the curriculum of our...
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4th Event – Weiz [LOGW]
We are proud to announce that the joanneum Aeronautics DBF Team got accepted by the AIAA and is now part of the competition in April 7 ! ring the next months the team has to build a Tube-Launched-Aircraft, which can transport at least 3 Hockey-Pucks. You can find the...