Team archive
Everyone who has built one of our aircraft, season by season. A few seasons are still missing names.
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08
Zephyros
Zephyros is a fixed-wing VTOL tricopter, and the first of our aircraft with carbon tubes we made ourselves.
Rebuild Award
The 2025–2026 team. Management
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Miguel Bofill Grandes
Team Manager · Full-time
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Walid Slimani
Technical Manager · Full-time
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Furkan Canbolat
Finance Manager · Part-time
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Brandon Dcruz
Marketing Manager · Part-time
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Karl Kroski
Chief External Affairs · Part-time
Airframe
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Daniel Luis Mederos
Chief Airframe · Full-time
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Gheorghe Birca
Engineer · Part-time
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Emiel Keizers
Engineer · 30 EC minor
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Ioannis Soulimiotis
Engineer · Part-time
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Anis Spiridon
Engineer · Part-time
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Daniel Simon
Engineer · 30 EC minor
Electronics & Software
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Xavier Taboada
Chief Electronics · Full-time
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Justin Nguyen
Engineer · 30 EC minor
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Andre Cuadras Diaz
Engineer · 15 EC minor
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Elze Mazuronyte
Engineer · 15 EC minor
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Arlen T Croak
Chief Software · Part-time
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Yousef Hannouneh
Engineer · 30 EC minor
Aerodynamics
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George-Razvan Chirila
Chief Aerodynamics
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Nagi Anezaki
Chief Aerodynamics · 15 EC minor
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Wisang Umam
Engineer · 30 EC minor
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Alejandro Solis Mercado
Engineer
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Alexander Radoslavov Rachev
Engineer · 15 EC minor
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Arthur Tyron
Engineer · Part-time
Dronobox
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Victor Andrei
Chief Dronobox · Full-time
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Illia Mirzaali
Engineer · Part-time
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Andrii Yevmenchuck
Engineer · Part-time
Design & Manufacturing
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Victor Andrei
Manufacturing · Part-time
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07
Nightingale
Nightingale completed the team’s first fully autonomous competition mission and returned with two awards.
Best Design and Best Media & Engagement
No names yet
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06
Freebird
The team cut the motor count to four and used tilting front rotors for hover, transition, and forward flight.
Most Promising Team
No names yet
If you were on this team, email us and we’ll add you.
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05
Nekbeth
The team took Nekbeth, a fast and largely 3D-printed VTOL aircraft, to the UAS Challenge.
Competed
25 people
- Maxim Ciscato
- Tom Kluin
- Antons Averins
- Matthijs Kleine
- Miro Sarkkinen
- Dan Sneider
- Codruța Ionescu
- Elena Gazzano
- Ama Serwah Boakye
- Ahmed Mahran
- Tristan Voors
- Ali Mohamed Ali
- Theo Syriopoulos
- Youssef Kamel
- Rieks Kaiser
- Janis Andersons
- Gerard Bel Català
- Yannis Ntikoudis
- Nikolas Katsantonis
- Linas Lee
- Pedro Henrique Da Silva
- Vanesa Murniece
- Alexandra Chetruș
- Daniela Iamandii
- Ștefan Minu
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04
Thunderbird
Thirteen students built Thunderbird, and the team also did STEM outreach that year.
Media & Engagement Award
13 people
- Sietse Oosterhout
- Rens de Boer
- Maxim Ciscato
- Philippe Damoiseaux
- Bas Kluijtmans
- Koen Freriks
- Thomas de Rooij
- Jort Flapper
- Ajitesh Malli
- Shervin Tochani
- Wouter Gerritsen
- Sofia de Gruijter
- Nikolas Katsantonis
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03
Phoenix
The Phoenix team continued work on the hybrid VTOL layout during a largely remote competition year.
Most Promising Team
9 people
- Nils Rutgers
- Ishaan Desai
- Bhanu Chidura
- Dick Dekker
- Ekaterina Antimirova
- Thomas de Rooij
- Bryan Lovato
- Raj Kumar Ashokan
- Rodrigo Carvalho
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02
VAU2
The second team worked on several aircraft projects and earned Drone Team Twente’s first Innovation Award.
Innovation Award
16 people
- Niels Kadijk
- Tjebbe Treub
- Thomas Rebel
- Akarsh Gopal
- Connor Stork
- Jurgen Rietberg
- Nils Rublein
- Gayathri Dhanapal
- Tamerlan Askarzade
- Xian Bodelón Ruibal
- Raj Kumar Ashokan
- Fabian Sisavanh
- Bhanu Teja Chidura
- Silas Nethe
- Kai Ferdelman
- Casper van Uijtert
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01
Toothless
The founding team built Toothless, an octa-plane VTOL, and entered the UAS Challenge for the first time.
Competition debut
No names yet
If you were on this team, email us and we’ll add you.
Missing from a list, or listed wrong? Email info@droneteamtwente.nl and we’ll fix it.