A great friend of ours dropped over a while back. He was so pumped. He’d heard about a radical new theory. He told us that he believed that pretty much everybody has a circle of friends/colleagues/contacts that could pool their resources, or expertise, together to accomplish nearly anything. As long as they had a coherent plan. A vision. -This idea really caught fire in our hearts and we said ‘ Yes! We can do this!’ Then we started to look around and ask our friends about how to start. We were eventually steered towards a plastics manufacturing firm in Saskatoon who have some state-of-the-art equipment.
My drawing that I’d worked out for the flat ring-wing ended up being meticulously converted to a vector file that could be fed into software that in turn controlled an uber-router machine. Talk about letting go. My original drawing became a catalyst that would end up being reproduced, tweaked and perfected at arm’s length via the evolving vector file. The file continues to evolve to this day in fact as I try out different ideas.
Check out the sliding crane-style computer-operated router head on this big boy:
Sharon holding one of the very first batches of router-cut ring-wings. They look like giant blue macaroni noodles to me.
You can see the ring-wing rolled into a 3-dimensional conical shape.
My friend Austin King told me that success is imminent with this project. He has heard lots more of the story of our long-term plans, and all of the interesting connections that we've made so far.
In a way. I can't help but feel that it's a success already. After all, the latest Skyaak flies great, which is exactly what we set out to accomplish in the first place!
Later,
Michael.
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