Outback Joe
Outback Joe is the target of the Search and Rescue and Airborne Delivery Challenges. Joe is a mysterious local bushwalker that tends to get lost near Kingaroy airport every September. He is represented by a 50 kg mannequin dressed in jeans, a work shirt, work boots and the iconic Australian hat, the Akubra. In 2010, Outback Joe was spotted from the aircraft of the University of North Dakota team lying next to his broken down "ute". This was the first time he had been located by a Search and Rescue team. In 2012, the Canberra UAV team's aircraft automatically located Outback Joe - the first fully automatic detection during all events. Teams, spectators (at the event and remote) and media keep up-to-date with Outback Joe's antics by following outback_joe on Twitter and Outback Joe on Facebook.
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“This might be the end of the world. If Joe lost we were back in slavery and beyond help. It would all be true, the accusations that we were lower types of human beings. Only a little higher than apes. True that we were stupid and ugly and lazy and dirty and, unlucky and worst of all, that God Himself hated us and ordained us to be hewers of wood and drawers of water, forever and ever, world without end.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)