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Team Skyflash Needs Your Support! gepostet am March 06, 2013 Autographed Skyflash Frame for Every Donation of 75$ or More THANK YOU ALL ALREADY! |
‘First Hop’ Successful, Video on Youtube! gepostet am February 27, 2013 Video of the 02/26/13 high-speed tests is online. After a night of viewing, cutting and again viewing we have finished the first video showing today´s tests. Sure is the pilot had lots of fun and he was fast - very fast.. |
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Project Skyflash achieved ‘First Hop’ |
Project Skyflash took all wheels off the ground for the first time! |
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Skyflash in Russia! gepostet am February 26, 2013 Russian Website features Skyflash in an Article Although no one in our team is able to read it we are of course very happy about this russian article. We will trust in the google translator saying that it is a very nice article with quite some detail.
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GizMag.com Reports gepostet am February 24, 2013 Award Winning Author David Szondy Reports for GizMag.com We expected some nice weekend not prepared for what happened when popular ‘GizMag’ blog reported from washington today. The great article from author David Szondy contains more than 70 pictures and displays our concept and some details.
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Jet Pack Snow Blower On Trendhunter gepostet am February 22, 2013 Project Skyflash again no. 1 on the biggest trendhunting platform! Project Skyflash has been covered on Trendhunter again. The snow blowing action, created for the Discovery Channel, seems to be even more crazy than we thought... Just as last time we are very happy about the success and hope for more interested viewers and for spring with better weather to come! |
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All clear..? gepostet am February 19, 2013 The “Question of the Day” answers your Skyflash related questions on Facebook During the last weeks it became more and more difficult to answer all of the questions you send us every day. The number of requests is simply too much for a team like ours is, especially when trying to answer each one personally. |
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Skyflash on Discovery Channel... gepostet am February 14, 2013 Work is done, Segment Broadcasted! Some of you already asked if we are in trouble or if something is wrong. We are glad to tell you that everything is alright and we spent our time working together with the Discovery Channel working on a great report on the Skyflash! |
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Skyflash ‘On Air’ gepostet am January 21, 2013 Radio Energy reporting from the homecountry of Yve Rossy This morning radio energy host Roger Schürch called the skyflash team from switzerland to ask what makes us so special. He was especially interested in our pilots stories telling him what feeling it is to fly this plane. He also expects us to be in the next James Bond movie with some great action scenes :-p |
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Work continues... gepostet am January 20, 2013 Second engine arrived and wingbody is beeing prepared After a few days of test-data analysis the first engine was dismounted from the wingbody this weekend. The wingbody received several improvements after this. |
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Report Section is Online gepostet am January 16, 2013 Visit our Report-Section at Tech > Reports We hope you´ll find answers for some of your most common questions and make an image of how we work :-) |
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Lift-Off Speed reached! gepostet am January 15, 2013 At 32mph the Skyflash begins to hover from the ground With todays high-speed taxi runs we were able to reach the hovering speed of the skyflash. At about 32mph the Skyflash hovers off the ground but can´t be pointed skywards without its elevator-rudder which has not been installed yet. Also the pilot has to work to keep the plane going straight because of the asymmetric thrust-forces. Next step will be the mounting of the second engine to proceed with the test program. |
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Worldwide Feedback on Skyflash gepostet am January 11, 2013 Projekt Skyflash is No. 1 on the planets biggest trendhunting platform! On january 10th the worldst biggest trendscouting platform “Trendhunter.com” has published the Skyflash. Within the first 24 hours it became no.1 article in four categories including “Tech” with hundreds of views per hour and a viral spreading. We are very happy about the success and hope for more interested viewers and - of course - for better weather to continue our work with even more motivation! |
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First Taxi Tests! gepostet am January 8, 2013 First Taxi-Tests with 31mph successful Our new album “Tests” will start on facebook! |
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Roll-Out successful! gepostet am January 5, 2013 Yesterday, just after sunset, the pilot was coupled with the airplane first time! First all connections had to be checked. Airframe had to be mounted together and gaps to be taped. Then, after two hours of tests, the pilot was mounted to the Skyflash by four team members. Latest pictures on facebook! |
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Skyflash 40 years ago... gepostet am January 3, 2013 How people in the 70´s imagined the future of flying Somehow a bit futuristic this image, printed in the popular mechanics magazine by 1970, must have appeared to the viewers... With all its flight-computers, microjets and aerodynamic features it was just a bit too complex for its time - It has never been build. Watch the original article and picture on facebook! |
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Both wings are finished! gepostet am January 2, 2013 Wings are ready for take-off It took a bit more time than expected but finally we managed to finalize our second wing. Both wings together weigh in at about 14lb and have become very rigid and sturdy. All tolerances have been kept below 1mm =) Now everything that´s left to do before the roll out is getting the pilots-mounting ready to use. As always: Don´t miss our latest pictures on facebook! |
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First Wing is covered! gepostet am December 30, 2012 Covering and turbulators are applied More or less over the night the team has finished the covering of the first wing. The outer wings came first, then the main wing and finally the turblators were applied. The whole story in pictures on Facebook. Don´t miss it! |
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First View on Skyflash! gepostet am December 29, 2012 Framework is put together first time! After more than two years of preparation the Skyflash is standing in front of the designer and builder team. About 1000 hours of work have been invested in its components. What you can´t see is that one wing still needs to be glued and processed. Be sure you don´t miss our newest pictures of the mounted Skyflash at Facebook! |
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The wings are almost done! gepostet am December 27, 2012 Frameworks of both wings are almost done We couldn´t stop working totally during christmas holidays. The results are two almost finished wing-frameworks. We hope to be able to connect all parts together tomorrow or the day after tomorrow- This will be the first time we can see the dimensions of the Skyflash! |
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Our first video is online! gepostet am December 22, 2012 Steering- and Stabilitytests on Youtube The very first tests of steering and stabilitycontrol and the first impressions of our pilot with his new aircraft too, have been captured on video. Watch us going more than 30mph with very good stability: |
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Wingbody-Tests begin... gepostet am December 20, 2012 First engine and pressurized fuel tanks are installed The workforce had been fully concentrated on getting the wingbody prepared for its first engine and roll and control experiments. Beside you see our pilot beeing pushed forward during the first engine start-up. Next steps will be piloted stability and controlability as well as security testings. Stay tuned, our first test video is soon to come! |
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First Turbojet arrived! gepostet am December 19, 2012 Installation of first engine into the wingbody starts Finally our first 80hp jet engine arrived at the workshop. For the second one we will still have to wait some time. To get a first impression of the working conditions we will first finish the wingbody before continuing work on the wings. |
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Construction works start on first outer wing... gepostet am December 17, 2012 Right now the very first outer wing is under construction Build on two 11mm glasfiber spars, the first outer wing sections are beeing constructed at the moment. Just like all others, these frames need to be prepared and polished before beeing installed. After that, the framework is build up on the spars. 22 stringers each wing are attached to stabilize the structure. In the background you see the left main wing with most stringers already attached. There´s still a lot of work to be done.. |
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First main wing to be constructed gepostet am December 16, 2012 The construction of the first main wing section will start today Each main wing section generally consists of 20 frames, 2 main spars and 3 glasfiber support spars. Each main spar is made of 40mm beech corewood. You will find a lot of pictures and information on our facebook page. Visit us there!
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The new logo is here! gepostet am December 15, 2012 Our new Skyflash logo design is now finished More than 30 drafts have reached us from the designers. The winning design has been selected unanimous! From now on the logo will be visible at facebook, twitter, youtube and our website of course. Thanks a lot again from this position to all designers which sent us their drafts!
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Wingbody Framework Finished! gepostet am December 14, 2012 The internal framework of 30 frames is completed! The Wingbody will house the engines, computer and pilot mounting. It´s made of 41mm tube in which the main spars will be inserted, a 40mm beech corewood spar, 12 wooden and 4 glasfiber spars.
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Let the construction begin... gepostet am December 12, 2012 Finally the last CNC machined parts habe arrived from bochum. So we can finally say: Let´s do it! We also launched a new facebook photo album called “Construction Process” showing you lots of pictures and daily progress information.
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Webbase finally online! gepostet am December 3, 2012 Skyflash.org webbase finally starts online Since we are waiting for our CNC parts we have finished getting the skyflash website online. From now on you will find all new pictures, videos and information right here on www.skyflash.org ! We will also bring fresh news first from the work-shop and later on from the runway to you by twitter. So don´t forget to follow us!
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New logo coming... gepostet am November 21, 2012 The new Skyflash logo is currently in development The decision was made just two days ago when members of the skyflash team were thinking about the idea to create a logo for the project. The design should reflect all our ambitions and passion so we decided to work with one of germany´s most known crowdsourcing platforms. Currently more than 70 designers are creating drafts for a new logo which you all will be able to see on our website as soon as it is ready. |
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