World's First Skyaak Wing

About two years ago I came up with the idea of creating a flat-manufactured Ring-Wing. The cost of manufacturing a complete 3-dimensional Ring-Wing was, and still is, prohibitively expensive. In the tens of thousands of dollars. My idea was to design a certain conglomeration of shapes that would somehow result in the thing having the ability to be all put together to form not only the Ring-Wing itself, but the wing must be in a conical shape to create a bit of an air-foil. As well, it had to feature three inside struts that would form a triangular opening to grasp onto the central shaft. These three inside struts had to double duty as props. I wanted the configuration to have the ability to be assembled without the hassle of adhesives, so I needed to come up with a tab and slot method. And to top it all off, the material had to be not only very lightweight but also incredibly strong to withstand all of the rigors of its new life as a Ring-Wing. And finally, the material had to be affordable. This might sound like quite a tall order, and it was!

After much deliberation and countless paper prototypes, I finally came up with something that put the project on the right track. Bill Hudson at WD Plastics in Saskatoon, SK. came up with the very first prototype wing. It was a crude first effort, but I knew that we were definitely going in the right direction!

Later on that day, we built a very rudimentary #1 prototype. It's intetresting to see all of the advances Skyaak Enterprises has made in the interim with the project. Thanks in large part to our first seven ' Angel Investors', things have progressed at a good clip. My mom Shirley Gaudet agreed to pose with the very first ever built prototype. She also agreed to bankroll the cost of firing it up! We owe her our eternal gratitude.

This whole process has been a journey of discovery through determined experimentation that has generated a lot of excitement. I decided to start this blog now before things really ' take off' so that I can journal the events that are happening currently that are all converging to launch the project onto the world stage.

Later, Michael.