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Rotorised catamaran wins NASA rescue competition

6:52 PM Fri 9 Jul 2010 GMT

'NASA winning design - the ’raft’ tiltrotor' .

The future for sailors who need to be rescued at sea could be very different if some extraordinary winning ideas by a group of innovative engineering students are adopted. Engineering students from Virginia, USA, have won a NASA competition with their design for a combination aeroplane/ helicopter/ catamaran rescue craft. Students from Blighty worked on the runner-up design, a quadruple-rotor version of the famous V-22 'Osprey' craft. 'The designs were creative, innovative and looked at many issues in detail,' said NASA bigwig Susan Gorton, of the agency's Subsonic Rotary Wing Project. 'Reading the student papers highlighted how many bright young ...

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