Customer Stories

TRANSFORMING THE WAY THE WORLD WORKS NEED Engineers, inventors and other creators are working to make the impossible, possible by solving a tough question – how do we make people fly? While UAV/UAS applications are certainly not uncommon, personal flying devices are. Leading experts recognized the need for the application and called up any team able to create the world's first safe, ultra- compact, urban-compatible personal flying device. Boeing, the world's largest and most forward- thinking aerospace company, has partnered with GoFly to turn flying dreams into reality. The GoFly Prize Competition is a two-year, international competition that consists of three phases where teams can enter in to win. The competition presented an opportunity for the teTra team to design and submit a device that gains visibility by large sponsors, win funding, and ultimately meet their end goal – to make people fly. Overview teTra aviation is a personal eVTOL (Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing) manufacturer that is taking air transportation to the next level: "fly anytime, anywhere". With their end-goal in mind, the 7-person teTra aviation team entered into the GoFly Prize Competition to bring flight to individual citizens. With the use of the Trimble MB- Two and LV59, they were not only able to achieve flight but also win the competition! Location TOKYO, JAPAN CHALLENGE The teTra team was challenged to design and submit a device against 800 other teams in the competition. GoFly provided a set of technical rules for each team. The personal flying device needed to be: ► Safe, quiet and user friendly ► Ultra-compact ► Near-VTOL—capable of carrying a single person for a distance of 20 miles without refueling or recharging Carrying any individual on an aircraft requires reliability and top-notch accuracy to ensure the safety of the passenger. With time of the essence and limited budget available, teTra searched for a solution that would meet all such requirements. Decision making and execution of the project needed to be done quickly and efficiently. To ensure the project stayed on course, the team needed a solution provider that had top of the line technical support, quick shipping, and a product cost that wasn't over the top.

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