{"id":22311,"date":"2017-10-10T10:50:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T14:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/?p=22311"},"modified":"2019-03-12T12:15:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:15:21","slug":"boeing-gofly-competition-personal-flying-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/boeing-gofly-competition-personal-flying-device\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Sponsors $2 Million GoFly Competition to Spur Innovation of Personal Flying Device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exemplified by superheroes and jetpacks in movies, humans have always fantasized about the ability to fly. In an effort to make this childhood dream a reality, Boeing is sponsoring a two-year <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/goflyprize.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GoFly<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> competition to create the first safe and simple personal flying device. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The organizers of the GoFly Prize contest are excited to encourage teams of students, scientists, professors, inventors and engineers to develop a \u201cvertical take-off and landing device\u201d that can safely transport a human 20 miles or more on a single tank of fuel or battery charge. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Boeing Sponsors GoFly\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tY0RWL9k1T8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe GoFly Prize is about making the impossible possible,\u201d said Gwen Lighter, CEO and Founder of GoFly. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is perhaps no dream more universally shared than that of soaring through the skies. It unites us all. Dreamt by young and old, man and woman, city-dwellers and people in remote parts of our globe, we share this innate desire to fly.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although personal flight is very appealing to the fantasy mind, Lighter said that this project is really about the future of transportation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe\u2019re at the brink of a major shift in the way we travel from one place to another,\u201d she said. \u201cThere has never been more activity or excitement in this space, and now is the first time in history when personal flying devices can be built. We want to inspire the innovation to make that shift happen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The competition is open to everyone and is separated into three steps. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the first step, GoFly will require teams to submit detailed project proposals by April 18, 2018. GoFly will then select the best 10 proposals and award those teams with $20,000. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the second step, GoFly will ask teams to develop working prototypes by Feb. 6, 2019. The teams will then have to demonstrate each machine&#8217;s ability to vertically take-off and land. GoFly will award $50,000 to the best four teams. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The third and final step will have teams competing in a \u201cfly-off\u201d in September 2019 for the $1 million prize. Teams will be judged based on how safe, quiet, and small their devices are. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additional prizes of $250,000 each will be awarded to the teams that develop the smallest device and the quietest device. There will also be a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$100,000 prize for the team that wins the \u201cdisruptive advancement of the state of the art\u201d category.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cGoFly hopes to catalyze a future where we use these personal flying devices to get around,\u201d said Lighter. \u201cAt the end of our two-year competition, we hope to have not only new technology but also the start of a whole new personal flying device industry.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Lighter, there have been many recent technological breakthroughs that enable the development of personal flight devices. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere are the autonomy systems we see in the automotive industry\u2019s self-driving cars, the increased performance of batteries and capacitors, and advances in lightweight materials,\u201d she said. \u201cThere are the stability and control systems from the drone world, and 3D printing and other types of rapid prototyping that open up the world of innovation to a broader spectrum of developers, makers, and engineers across the globe.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All of these factors together give researchers the tools they need to develop the first personal flying device. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although there is great excitement and confidence surrounding this competition, there is no guarantee that GoFly\u2019s call will be answered in the next two years. There are many technological challenges that could still disrupt the creation of a device, and regulatory decisions that must be made. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But Lighter and GoFly are confident that \u201cthose issues will be solved.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt took only a few years for serious conversations to progress around low-altitude drones,\u201d Lighter said. \u201cThe same will happen here and we will work through it. The aviation industry was built on the premise of solving problems that did not previously exist.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boeing is the primary sponsor of the competition, but many more companies and organizations with an interest in flight are also involved. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exemplified by superheroes and jetpacks in movies, humans have always fantasized about the ability to fly. In an effort to make this childhood dream a reality, Boeing is sponsoring a two-year GoFly competition to create the first safe and simple personal flying device. The organizers of the GoFly Prize contest are excited to encourage teams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":22318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[232,632,229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","category-robotics","category-lead-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Boeing-GoFly.png",830,533,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Boeing-GoFly-224x144.png",224,144,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Boeing-GoFly-300x193.png",300,193,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Boeing-GoFly.png",830,533,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Boeing-GoFly.png",830,533,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Boeing-GoFly.png",830,533,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Boeing-GoFly.png",830,533,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Jackson Schroeder","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tun.com\/blog\/author\/jackson-schroeder\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Exemplified by superheroes and jetpacks in movies, humans have always fantasized about the ability to fly. 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