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Built for when it matters
Search & rescue
A hundred kilometres to the search area is a twenty-minute flight, not a half-day search on foot.
300 km/h
Rapid delivery
Blood, medicine or spare parts, carried to the places roads no longer reach.
1000 km
Rapid monitoring
Wildfires, floods or glaciers: one flight covers ground that used to take days.
1 flight
Designed, built and flown by students.
Road to rollout
TBD
Review 1
Concept, requirements and mission profile.
TBD
Review 2
Detailed design of airframe, propulsion and avionics.
TBD
Review 3
Prototype built, ground tests, cleared for flight.
TBD
Rollout
Ardea meets the public for the first time.
The team
Engineering students at ETH Zürich, from aerodynamics to software, building Ardea from the first sketch to the first flight.
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Project lead
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Aerodynamics
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Structures
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Propulsion
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Avionics
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Flight control
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Software
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Partnerships
Put your name on something that flies.
Ardea is built by students, and partners are what get it off the ground. Funding, materials, manufacturing or expertise: every contribution goes straight into the aircraft.
Become a partnerVisibility
Your brand on our site, our material and at the rollout.
Talent
Work side by side with ETH engineering students.
Impact
Back technology built for rescue, aid and monitoring.