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...

External links

• PAV Challenge @ Cafe Foundation

Electric motors

• 20 HP
• eTorq Customs[1]

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