11 active members · Est. 2022
Who flies it
Greylag is run by students and handed over every summer. Nobody here is permanent, which is why everything we know has to be written down before it leaves.
Command
Who signs it off
Osman Can Çıdamal
Team Captain
Mustafa Alper Ergün
Mechanics Lead
Hüseyin Güngör
Avionics Lead
İsmail Karaca
Team Advisor
Units
How the work splits
AFS
Airframe & Structures
Wing and fuselage design, composite layup, moulds, and the load tests that decide whether a part flies or goes back on the bench.
Uğur Selim Kartal
Yunus Emre Köse
İhsan Yavuz Yıldız
AVX
Avionics & Power
Flight computers, power distribution, wiring looms and telemetry links. Everything between the battery and the control surface.
Muhammed Emir Aslaner
AUT · GCS
Software
Guidance and control laws, onboard perception, and the formation logic that lets two aircraft hold station without a human on either stick.
Ground control software, mission planning, live telemetry displays, and the flight-data pipeline every debrief is argued over.
Kağan Gürek
Nurullah Güler
OPS
Operations & Outreach
Flight-line procedure, safety cases, competition logistics, sponsorship and the school workshops we run each spring.
Elfida Babacan
Route flown
Since 2021
- 2021
Greylag is born
The UAV Team that is to join many competitions to come starts as a mere side project with a borrowed depot as their workshop and nothing but their dreams.
- 2022
The First Flight
As the team learns the many cornerstones of aerodynamics and software, they launch the Lag-1 to the skies. Although small, janky and unstable; it is an all-time favorite because of its representation of the team's strength and perseverance.
- 2023
First Competition
As the team joins Teknofest, the nation-wide technology competition for the first time, they see the differences and many criterias of the competition world and improve themselves with documentation and a more professional UAV environment.
- 2024
National Finalist
Joining again into the Teknofest competition grounds, the team is now more versatile. Being experienced in both development and documentation of the plane, the team pass all reports and make it to the last 20 teams out of 2500 and become national finalists for the first time.
- 2025
2 Competitions, Bigger Dreams
After their fortunate journey in Teknofest, the team decides to dream bigger this time and join the SUAS UAV Competition. As their fleet grows with many competitions, test and training vehicles; the team gets prepared for 2 competitions at the same time, putting hardwork into each and expecting nothing less in return.
- 2026
Two Aircraft, Two Finals
As the team makes 2 completely new vehicles with better development processes than the earlier years, it passes the reports one by one to move into the finale in both their competitions and bring home their awards.
Applications open in October
No experience required, and no, that is not a formality — every unit lead here started with none. Come to a build night and see what you would be signing up for.