Project Perpetual

I’m on a mission to build a perpetually flying plane — a plane that stays in the air forever and never has to land.

• Masterplan. You’ll want to read this first.
• Lessons learned

Project status

Note: This project has been superseded by Project Teleport

• Pick a decent wing shape (airfoil) and size
  • Deciding on an aircraft form — Decided: Fixed wing
  • General guidelines for wing design
  • Design initial wing parameters
  • Previous work done on solar UAVs
• Find the drag at desired/expected operating conditions
• Pick a motor that can handle that drag, and then some
• Find required storage and generation parameters
• Simulate the plane before construction
• Build a scaled version and test it
• Get feedback, rinse and repeat