French scholar designs unmanned aircraft for farmers at Shropshire university
A FRENCH postgraduate student has completed seven months research at Shropshire's Harper Adams University developing an unmanned aircraft for use in agriculture. Marc-Alexandre Favier, from Bourg-en-Bresse, in eastern France, came to Harper Adams as part of his Masters in Mechatronic Systems – Engineering from the University of Osnabruck in Germany. He will return to Germany on May 1 where he will give a presentation in Berlin on the research he has carried out during his time at Harper Adams, near Newport. The 27-year-old designed a prototype Unmanned Air System (UAS) to be used