Take two UAH professors with cross-discipline interests, add a group of enthusiastic senior aircraft design students, mix well and let them get cooking. The result is a blimp-like airship that's the mother ship for a smaller quad-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), and it may be the wildest thing to ever have been performance tested inside Huntsville's Von Braun Center. The helium-filled airship has a remote-controlled capture and release docking mechanism that also charges the UAV from batteries aboard. The project recently won second place at the 65th American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Region II Student Team Design Competition in Memphis, Tenn.