On 7th December, once again School of Aerospace Engineering USM Team A and Team Airwing , mentored by Ir. Dr. Ahmad Faizul Hawary and Ir. Dr. Hussin Bin Mamat and a total of 8 participating students have presented to Innovation Fun Day with Airbus in Malaysia. USM Team A has won First Runner-Up of the Innovation Fun Day at IIUM Gombak Campus.


Both teams has been passed through Qualifying Stage and selected as one of finalist to represent to the Fun Day. It has given valuable experiences to our students to expose themselves to the real aerospace theory and technical hands on. Our students has more explored about drone technology in order to complete the missions given.

Mission for Qualifying Stage is to fly a drone about 5m in heavy rainy day and float on water for 10seconds with rotor off. Then, take off and land back to the platform.
The challenges for the day are:

A) Mission 1:Rocket Drone
Launch a rocket with drone (rotor off) vertically and reach a height of 100ft. In the middle of the launching, switch on the rotor and fly the rocket drone to a landing platform with dimension 570*570*40.

B) Mission 2: Secret Mission
In one and a half hour period, using materials provided to build an ornithopter. Six teams compete for the longest time the ornithopter can stay in air. Hints are given based on our draw.

C) Mission 3: Modular Drone
In this mission, we have to pass through four stages with one drone only which are flying in a confined space with or without FPV (first person view), carry payload with hook weighted between 0.2 to 1kg, float on the water for 10 seconds (bonus: submerge in water for 5 seconds and control inside water) and drop our drone about 3 meter height to test our drone maintainability and sustainability. Size of drone is only allowed between minimum 20cm*20cm to maximum 40cm*40cm blade tip to tip measurement. We are allowed to modify our drone in order to complete each stage challenge in 15 minutes.

As a conclusions, through journey to the Fun Day, a very highly hardworking and highly teamwork from participating undergraduate students and highly experience and motivating lectures, technicians and support from the management team and supporting staffs have led to the achievement of our 2019 milestone. Thanks Airbus for inviting us to join the Fun Day and also thanks to USM technical staff Mr Mohamad Zihad Mahmud Grad. Eng., Mr Mohd Amir bin Wahab, Mr Hasfizan bin Hashim, Mr Mohd Shukri bin Soaid, and Mr Mohd Najib b. Mohd Hussain for helping us throughout the preparation way to the Innovation Fun Day 2019.