First flight 2011 | ||
GQMMS UAV is a Chinese UAV developed by Beijing School (Guang-Qu-Men Middle School, 北京广渠门中学) (GQMMS). The UAV has since entered service with local business.
Unmanned helicopter
GQMMS UAV is an UAV based on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) subsystems, and it is an unmanned helicopter in conventional layout, with a pair of skids as landing gear. GQMMS unmanned helicopter first made its public debut on May 19, 2011 in Beijing, when it won the first place award of the Beidou Cup all China Youth Innovation Competition. The designer of GQMMS unmanned helicopter is a ninth grade student Mr. Gao Ying-Xuan (高迎轩), with the assistance from another his classmate. One of the conspicuous feature of this unmanned helicopter is its navigational system: in contrast to most UAV equipped with satellite navigation that is typically GPS, the satellite navigational system of GQMMS unmanned helicopter is Beidou instead.