Unfortunately, Triton UAS was not able to attend the AUVSI SUAS competition this year because our airframe crashed too close to the competition deadlines. Even though the team did not attend the competition this year, we did submit a technical design paper which includes a full description of the airframe we were planning to compete with.

Despite this setback, we learned several valuable lessons that will allow us to perform better in future years. The most important takeaway from this year is that our team needs to have a backup airframe ready for competition when testing the primary airframe so we can quickly recover from damage to the plane.