Silverwing Personal Flight

Last week we ended our California trip with a special flight demonstration for friends and family at the Patriots Jet Team hangar. We couldn’t have imagined a better way to end the USA adventure of Silverwing!

Thanks to everyone who supported us on our journey to the GoFly Prize Fly-off. The million dollar prize is still up for grabs! Congrats to team teTra from Japan on winning the Pratt & Whitney Disruptor Award.

‪The S1 is now certified for outdoor flight! After being thoroughly inspected by the the S1 received its Special Flight Authorization. We are all incredibly proud of this and we will be soon our outdoors! ‬

Squeezing in some time from their busy testing schedule, some members of the took a day trip to San Francisco city and the . Though this marvel of engineering is often shrouded in fog, we enjoyed clear, weather and watched a beautiful . Afterwards, the rest of the team joined us for a team dinner in .

New week new beginning!
We spent the weekend preparing our aircraft for our first untethered flight. Making several modifications and polishing our safety and preflight checklists. As the fly-off date approaches stay-tuned for some major news and exciting updates.

While the controls department was busy fine-tuning the S1 there was some time for other team members to explore the Bay Area countryside. Less than a 30 minutes’ drive from our testing location they escaped the city life to hike to the 2500 ft summit of Mission Peak.