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Cyber Technology quad UAS inspects fire damaged offshore oil rig

16th November 2009 - 10:00 GMT | by in Canberra

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In what is believed to be a world first the Perth, Australia-based Cyber Technology has carried out a close up inspection of a fire damaged oil rig and extraction platform in the Timor Sea using its Cyber Quad vertical takeoff and landing mini unmanned air system.

The flights, carried out on 11 and 12 November, saw a Cyber Quad mini launch fly around, under and inside the fire damaged PTTEP Australasia owned Montara oil platform and the Seadrill owned West Atlas mobile offshore drilling rig. The rig and the head platform were joined by a cantilever gantry structure when the

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