Help bring rFlight to NASA Ames!
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We are an all-volunteer team building a full-scale Vertical Take-Off & Landing (VTOL) personal flight vehicle - and we need your support to bring the vehicle to showcase at Moffett Federal Airfield at NASA Ames Research Center on February 29!
Who is rFlight?
rFlight is a globally distributed community of innovators and makers. We are an inclusive volunteer community that accepts anyone with a passion to collaborate and learn. We are all united by a vision to create a better world through innovation, and creating a new way of collaborating on complex engineering projects in a distributed manner.
Our project was spurred by a competition from GoFly to design and build a safe, quiet, ultra-compact, near-VTOL personal flying device capable of flying 20 miles while carrying a single person.
The bulk of our work is conducted virtually, using communication platforms like Slack, collaborative CAD software like Fusion360 from Autodesk, and video conferencing from Google Meet. The physical manufacturing, building, and testing of our competition vehicle is taking place outside of Spokane, WA.
What is GoFly?
GoFly is a competition to create a personal flying device that is safe, useful, and thrilling. The goal is to foster the development of safe, quiet, ultra-compact, near-VTOL personal flying devices capable of flying twenty miles while carrying a single person. The rFlight project is our entry, and we have progressed to the final stage of the competition!
Our team has been developing this vehicle for over two years, and we are now less than 1 month away from the final fly-off - but we need your help!
In order to transport our vehicle to showcase at Moffett Federal Airfield at NASA Ames Research Center on February 29 (leap day!), we need support to rent a vehicle to transport the flying device, pay for fuel (from Spokane, WA, to Menlo Park, CA, and back again), and support team members with costs associated with attending the event.
Help support our volunteer team in raising the funds necessary to attend this incredible event and to represent passionate innovators and makers from around the world!
About our team:
A video made by our sponsors TE Connectivity: https://youtu.be/o7ezYqijL90
Keith Stormo, Design & Manufacturing Lead (left), and Loren Stormo, Manufacturing & Marketing Team
rFlight with Gwen Lighter, CEO of GoFly (right) and Thierry Marin-Martinod, VP of Engineering & CTO at TE Connectivity (left)
Who is rFlight?
rFlight is a globally distributed community of innovators and makers. We are an inclusive volunteer community that accepts anyone with a passion to collaborate and learn. We are all united by a vision to create a better world through innovation, and creating a new way of collaborating on complex engineering projects in a distributed manner.
Our project was spurred by a competition from GoFly to design and build a safe, quiet, ultra-compact, near-VTOL personal flying device capable of flying 20 miles while carrying a single person.
The bulk of our work is conducted virtually, using communication platforms like Slack, collaborative CAD software like Fusion360 from Autodesk, and video conferencing from Google Meet. The physical manufacturing, building, and testing of our competition vehicle is taking place outside of Spokane, WA.
What is GoFly?
GoFly is a competition to create a personal flying device that is safe, useful, and thrilling. The goal is to foster the development of safe, quiet, ultra-compact, near-VTOL personal flying devices capable of flying twenty miles while carrying a single person. The rFlight project is our entry, and we have progressed to the final stage of the competition!
Our team has been developing this vehicle for over two years, and we are now less than 1 month away from the final fly-off - but we need your help!
In order to transport our vehicle to showcase at Moffett Federal Airfield at NASA Ames Research Center on February 29 (leap day!), we need support to rent a vehicle to transport the flying device, pay for fuel (from Spokane, WA, to Menlo Park, CA, and back again), and support team members with costs associated with attending the event.
Help support our volunteer team in raising the funds necessary to attend this incredible event and to represent passionate innovators and makers from around the world!
About our team:
A video made by our sponsors TE Connectivity: https://youtu.be/o7ezYqijL90
Keith Stormo, Design & Manufacturing Lead (left), and Loren Stormo, Manufacturing & Marketing Team rFlight with Gwen Lighter, CEO of GoFly (right) and Thierry Marin-Martinod, VP of Engineering & CTO at TE Connectivity (left)
Some of the rFlight team presenting in Aachen, Germany
Some of the rFlight team presenting in Aachen, Germany. From left to right: Jaka Verbic, Saskia Peters, Amir Morris, Brent Lessard
Rick Kwan, Avionics Team Member
Clarence Akagu, Mechanical Engineering Team Member
Ilyas Vali, Assistant Project Manager
Jaka Verbic, Project & Design Lead
For more information on the project and all of the volunteer team members, please visit rFlight.org !
Please note: rFlight is a volunteer team consisting of over 30 individuals from a variety of different countries. Any funds raised will directly be put towards costs associated with team members attending the GoFly Competition on February 29, 2020. Any and all support for our project is appreciated immensely by our team!
Some of the rFlight team presenting in Aachen, Germany. From left to right: Jaka Verbic, Saskia Peters, Amir Morris, Brent LessardRick Kwan, Avionics Team MemberClarence Akagu, Mechanical Engineering Team MemberIlyas Vali, Assistant Project ManagerJaka Verbic, Project & Design LeadFor more information on the project and all of the volunteer team members, please visit rFlight.org !
Please note: rFlight is a volunteer team consisting of over 30 individuals from a variety of different countries. Any funds raised will directly be put towards costs associated with team members attending the GoFly Competition on February 29, 2020. Any and all support for our project is appreciated immensely by our team!
Fundraising team: rFlight (7)
Brent Lessard
Organizer
Whitby, ON
Thierry Marin-martinod
Team member
Saskia Peters
Team member
Ilyas Vali
Team member
Akagu Clarence
Team member
