Teleport

Note: I originally started a project called “Perpetual” with the aim of building a plane capable of perpetual flight. It’s since morphed into this project (more details here).

Overview

🎯 Grand goal: Allow anyone to directly assist people in need anywhere in the world.

• Masterplan. You really want to read this first.

Project status

🚧 Checkpoint #1: Deliver an orange 25km away and return autonomously

• ✅ Determine design attributes required for plane
• ✅ Build / procure the scaled-down plane
  • ✅ Order the full-sized plane
  • ✅ Build the scaled-down model
• ✅ Run an autonomous flight with the scaled-down plane
  • ❎ 1^st flight attempt: Failed
  • ❎ 2^nd flight attempt: Failed
  • ❎ 3^rd flight attempt: Failed
  • ✅ 4^th flight attempt: Success!
• ✅ Test autonomous waypoint flight with scaled-down plane
  • ❎ 1^st flight attempt: Failed
  • ❎ 2^nd flight attempt: Failed
  • ❎ 3^rd flight attempt: Failed
  • ❎ 4^th flight attempt: Failed
  • ❎ 5^th flight attempt: Failed
  • ✅ 6^th flight attempt: Success!
• ✅ Receive full-sized plane
• ➡️️ Build the full-sized plane
• Test autonomous flight with full-sized plane
• Setup payload test (an orange)
• Test flight with payload release
• ➡️️ Coordinate with aid agencies in Lebanon/Turkey
• Fly there and test orange delivery!