Engineering Projects/Personal air vehicles

Welcome to the PAV Research Project

Goal
The goal of this project is to openly design a functional personal air vehicle in accordance with the specifications declared in NASA's PAV contest.

Initial ideas
Electric and clean is probably preferable.

Maybe LiPo...

Maybe fuel cells...

Maybe standard jet fuel...

Electric motors

 * 20 HP
 * eTorq Customs

Batteries

 * Customs
 * Cylindrical about 180 Watt/Hr per Kg batteries

Aeronautical consultant services

 * CH2M
 * Another one...
 * Dar Corp.
 * Mistral
 * Urban Aero


 * DC Motors with integrated gearing

Miscallneous

 * Crestwood Technology Group

Resources

 * Intute
 * EE Product Center
 * Globalspec
 * ISA
 * Machine design