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Change the world one mind at a time

Every year Ostrich Air partners with  companies that align with our values of integrity and innovation to capture the creative minds of our future and present engineers.  This year we have decided to build and compete in the Discovery  TV series Battlebots. We have a have a high caliber team with several key partners that have begun to design and build. 

The goal will be to design unique robots/drones that would  push the limits of what the technology is currently possible while inspiring future and current engineers to step out of the box.

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Code Name: Double Tap
​AOR- Classified

Double Tap is its nickname. You can't pronounce its real name. It was developed as a security robot. It is autonomous, covered with sensors, and its purpose is to detect, intercept, and disable intruders so they can be interrogated. You can't outrun it. A few years ago, it was smuggled out of an atomic research lab somewhere in Asia through an oil pipeline and flown to a reverse engineering facility in the Nevada desert. There it was taken apart, reassembled, and put to use guarding the place. All was fine until last year when coincidentally, BattleBots moved to Las Vegas. That year, the Nevada facility experienced several intrusion attempts by hostile surface drones. They upgraded the weapon on Double Tap and reprogrammed it to deal with the new threat. When it was learned that there would be another season of BattleBots in Las Vegas, it was decided to enter Double Tap to gather intelligence about potential adversaries. ​

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TEAM: Ostrich Air / Double Tap

Las vegas live show Team:

• Jonathan Collazo - Ostrich Air CEO -  Team leader   
• Derek Stevens - Ostrich Air CTO - Managing build and engineering
• Eric Carpenter - Ostrich Air /USAF jet engine master specialist
• Loren Carpenter - Founding member - Pixar studios
• Jeffrey Gick - Ostrich air COO -Classified/Prototype Development
• Brian Sparano - Strategic research at Nikon - systems engineering 
• Arjen De Jong- AIR TULIP CEO - Fluid dynamic specialist 
• Neil Marek -  OFFICIAL Double Tap BATTLEBOT season 7 FPV PILOT​
• Phillip Mobley - Videographer
• Paul Nurkala - FPV PILOT
• Evan Jesse - JB PRECISSION CEO - Machinist

Remote team

• Jerome Strach - Former software engineer at pixar
• Tod Powers - Former software engineer at pixar 
• Avi Gileadi - Former mechanical engineer at Tesla - Hardware design
• John Rettie - Hester fabrication president  - Metal specialist
• Daniel Wiggins - Hester Fabrication mechanical engineer - metal specialist
• Chris Van Steyn - Hester Fabrication mechanical engineer - metal specialist​
• Kevin Slattery- Materials scientist - Principal at the barnes global - former chief scientist at boeing
• Raymond W. Monroe - Executive vp steel founders society of america-  Materials specialist
• Kenny Campbell - CEO at Stuff You Can Use - marketing specialist
• Sterling Donner -  VP  at Southwest composite works - materials specialist
• Andries Van Overbeeke - Race Car Designer and Movie Vehicle Designer
• Christopher Margeson - Principal Mechanical Engineer at Nikon Research Corporation of America
• Sasha Waxman - Industrial Designer at Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.
• Todd Nelson - Ph.D.  Mechanical Engineer 
• Shawn Hice -  Software enginneer and co-founder of Collidable
• Griffen Gorsuch - Electrical engineer and co-founder of collidable
• David Martellock - Manufacturing engineer 
• Ivan Iler - Artist, Fabricator, Metal Sculptor
• Christopher Brown - Pipeline developer
• Alec Guay - Application engineer ntopology
• Evan Pilz - Senior application engineer ntopology
• Dr. Charles Monroe - Metallurgical and materials engineering
• Collin Dean - Mechanical engineer
• Daniel milligan - Mechanical engineer
• Bob Simmons - Modutecture ceo​
• Zack Fleishman - Sharkwheel ceo
• Brian Schwab - Multimedia designer

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