Sky Hopper now has funding available to begin work on an electrical demonstrator build. This will begin within the next few weeks.

This second demonstrator will bring together three separate elements:

a) The updated fabrication process and techniques refined from 2018's structural engineering demonstrator build; now captured within our CATIA CAD model.

b) The power train cabling, battery installation and motor positioning.

c) The control electronics package for power train and flight management.

Our general design plan using two main fans and a tail control fan is unchanged; our focus will be on gyroscopic force damping, power cycle vibrations and other aspects of the mission derived energy profiles that our control systems have to manage. Inevitably, we have to retain confidentiality on the design details; but our intent is to see if we can work up to first tethered trials of the vehicle platform by the end of 2019.