WZES UAV

WZES UAV is a Chinese UAV developed by Wenzhou Zhouyuan Elementary School (WZES, 温州市籀园小学) in Wenzhou, and has entered service in China with local business for aerial cinematography and photography missions.

Hexacopter

WZES UAV was developed by the UAV Research Center(无人机研发中心) of Youth’s Science Academy (少年科学院) of WZES. The designer of the UAV is Mr. Chen Yao (陈耀), a teacher who is in charge of the research center, and also leading a team of twenty students who participated in the development as part of their science project. Originally, the project and as well as the research center was set up as a mean to encourage students, particularly for girls, to be involved more in science by encourage them to operate remotely piloted aerial vehicles. As Mr. Chen develop his own UAV, all of the student on the team also participated in helping.^[1] The UAV team operated on weekends and practiced their skills of aerial photography and cinematography via UAVs, and what begun as a student science project became a professional service when local news stations admired their work and asked the team to perform aerial photography and cinematography for them. However, during such missions, it was discovered that UAVs provided by other manufacturers are either too expensive, or could not meet the mission requirement a hundred percent when price is low. As a result, in 2011 Mr. Chen decided to develop UAV of its own design by spending over ¥ 300,000 of his own money, near a third of which had to be written off when prototypes were crashed. After numerous failures, the development was finally successfully completed, and it is a hexacopter with a pair of skids as landing gear. The hexacopter is specifically designed to perform aerial cinematography and photography missions and has since be contracted by numerous new and televisions stations to perform such tasks.^[2]

See also

List of unmanned aerial vehicles of the People's Republic of China

References