Boeing organizes a contest "GoFly" with a winning prize of over 100 million yen to support the development of the next generation personal aircraft

Aircraft maker Boeing will support a technician developing a personal use aircraft, a technology development contest with a total prize money of 2 million dollars (approx. 220 million yen)GoFlyWe announced that we will hold.

GoFly Prize
https://herox.com/GoFly

About the contest "GoFly" sponsored by Boeing, movies are released.

Boeing Sponsors GoFly - YouTube


Everyone should have dreamed about "I want to fly freely in the sky" as a child.


"In the past 100 years, humanity has made remarkable progress in flight," said Boeing's chief technology officer, Greg Hislop.


From the first manned flight success by Wright brothers ... ...


Lunar surface exploration


Advances in rocket technology are ... ...


I am trying to make mankind reach Mars.


"These accomplishments are inherent in technology innovation and human spirit"


"And now I am about to see the possibility of opening up a new frontier."


Material engineering and ... ...


With the evolution of new power sources, autonomous functions etc., Boeing thinks that mankind is about to move to the next stage in "flight".


Boeing, who has studied aerodynamics for more than a century, decided to hold a contest "GoFly" to give the imagination, innovation and inspiration of next generation engineers.


GoFly will offer cash prizes totaling $ 2 million (about 220 million yen) to those who create new flight skills.


The goal is to "develop a safe, quiet, surprisingly compact individual aircraft." A take-off method close to vertical is encouraged.


Something like a jet pack ... ...


Drone


We do not ask the approach to flying cars. It is up to you which method to adopt.


GoFly starts in Phase 1, which starts in 2018. Participating teams who have won each phase compete for the results in the final flight test in Phase 3 in October 2019. A flying personal aircraft is required to be a compact one-seater machine that makes safe and quiet flying a distance of 20 miles (about 32 kilometers). Design is entirely left to each technician.

Participants can also receive support from mentors such as Boeing, NASA, DARPA and other technical experts and experts on intellectual property rights, as well as the process of building aircraft, as well as the intellectual property related to the invented technology There are great merits that you can obtain the necessary knowledge and experience as a technician, such as how to handle the right. Of course, the right about the developed aircraft is given to developers except for the right regarding the exposure in the event.

Participation in Phase 1 has already begun on September 26, 2016, and it is decided whether to participate in Phase 1 by document examination. The team who passed the screening of documents will be paid a registration fee of 500 dollars (about 55,000 yen) for two or more people and $ 250 (about 28,000 yen) for single participation, Participate in Phase 1 of the 18th. Phase 1 is the main theme of submitting reports and drawings, and 10 talented teams are given $ 20,000 (about 2 million yen). In addition, GoFly will exchange all events in the tournament in English.

The prize money given to the team that finally won Phase 3 is a million dollars (about 110 million yen). Participation application can be done on the following official website.

GoFly Prize
https://herox.com/GoFly