Nov 29, 2016 | Fire Rescue, home
We are the land based fire rescue team at Old Dominion University. What does that mean? Our team is focused on designing a Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for the Carova Beach fire department in North Carolina. We are building a quadcopter that will be able to give fire...
Nov 28, 2016 | Fire Rescue
Brian Duvall, Steven Machamer on the Land Rescue team, and professor Dr. Thomas Alberts drove down to Knotts Island to be picked up by the Carova, North Carolina fire department by boat to go to there fire house. The task for this trip was to intentionally fly in...
Nov 10, 2016 | Fire Rescue
So lets have a little talk about electro-magnetic radiation or EMR for short. Anything that uses electricity emits these EMRs, from your electric toothbrush to your television to the high tension wires that wrap our cities. Every device you see is pulsing radiation at...
Nov 2, 2016 | Fire Rescue
Flying a drone in a civil environment with clear skies can eventually take a toll on a drone. But flying a drone in less than desirable weather such a storm with strong winds can greatly impact the life expectancy of this life-saving hardware. This became evident...
Oct 25, 2016 | Fire Rescue
The Red Eagle took flight today inside the Old Dominion practice basketball gym. The Red Eagle did some basic flying maneuvers to show the flight controller was functioning properly. This is the beginning stages before we start to add cameras and other sensors on...
Oct 19, 2016 | Fire Rescue
On the eighteenth day of October in Norfolk 2016, Virginia at Old Dominion University students of the Red Eagle project took flight. The goal of the project is to give first responders at Carova Beach the ability to reduce response time. First responders will gain the...
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