Industrial designSearch & rescueIDA 2019 Bronze

MANTA 01

An industrial drone that reaches the water before the rescuer has to.

Category
Maritime SAR drone
Payload
Deployable lifebuoy array
Focus
Biomimicry · Aerodynamics
Pages
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CHAPTER 01

372,000 people drown every year. The first responder is usually another body in the water.

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CHAPTER 02

A morphological matrix converged on a VTOL lifting body with outboard floats — then the wing had to earn its lift.

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CHAPTER 03

SAR orange over graphite, with a stack of self-inflating rings carried inside the body.

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