Power in reserve
Four rotors lift 340 kg. The machine with a pilot weighs 195 kg. That gap is margin — for wind, for a sharp manoeuvre and for a mistake. Not a number added to a pitch deck.
01P1 prototype · load testing under way
A single-seat electric aircraft, built from nothing. Four rotors lift 340 kg against an empty weight of 95 kg. The machine already flies under its own power — right now we are adding ballast and finding out how it behaves under load.
Why
A helicopter costs as much as a house and takes hundreds of hours to learn. An aeroplane needs a runway. We are building something that lifts off a lawn, charges from a wall socket and fits on a trailer.
Our starting point was power in reserve. The four rotors of ANANA$ lift 340 kg including the machine itself. The airframe weighs 95 kg, a pilot with gear adds another 100 — which leaves 145 kg of pure reserve. This is not a design that barely leaves the ground at full throttle.
That is exactly where we are now. The machine flies, so we are adding ballast kilogram by kilogram and watching how it responds under load. A person gets in only once it has proven everything without one.
Four rotors lift 340 kg. The machine with a pilot weighs 195 kg. That gap is margin — for wind, for a sharp manoeuvre and for a mistake. Not a number added to a pitch deck.
01Two metres by two, 120 cm tall. It goes on an ordinary trailer and lifts off a lawn — no hangar, no runway.
02No exhaust, no fuel, charges from a wall socket. Twenty to thirty minutes in the air on one charge.
03You do not fly the motors, you fly the intent. The onboard computer holds attitude and altitude — let go of the stick and the machine hangs still.
04Tethered tests first, then free flight, now load. A person gets in only once the machine has proven everything without one.
05No visualisation, no investor prospectus. Everything you see in the photos and videos exists, and it leaves the ground.
06Data
Figures measured on the P1 prototype. We are not publishing construction details. The Jetson ONE column follows the manufacturer's published data and is given for reference only.
Build log
From a bare frame to the load tests we are running today. Every stage, including the ones we had to repeat.
A 3D model, structural calculations and the choice of construction. The starting assumption: the frame must carry a multiple of the take-off weight without permanent deformation.
Thrust, current draw and temperature measured on the bench — before anything left the ground.
The first full assembly of the frame, checking geometry and balance. The steel cage around the machine is for transport and protects the structure during testing.
The pilot pod, the skin and the electrical installation. The machine starts to look like a machine rather than a rig.
The machine in a safety frame, ballast instead of a pilot. Tuning the controllers, checking the response to inputs and running failure scenarios.
The machine left the ground under its own power and held a hover under control from the ground. Ballast on board instead of a person.
This is the most important stage so far: it confirms thrust, controllability and the stabilisation system in the air, not just on the bench.
The machine flies, so we are adding ballast and checking how it takes the load. Kilogram by kilogram: how much thrust is left in reserve, how the motors heat up, whether the stabilisation holds position at greater mass.
This is the most tedious stage of the whole project and we are deliberately taking our time — its results decide whether and when a person gets in. We film the tests; the videos are in the section below.
A hover at low altitude, over soft ground, fully secured. We will only enter this stage after the load tests are complete and the structure has been inspected.
Gallery
Photos from the workshop, the assembly and the flight tests.
Video
Investors
The P1 prototype is built, it flies, and it is going through load testing. We got here on our own money and in our own time — no grant, no investor, no loan.
From here it gets expensive. The next stage means finishing the tests at full load, replacing some components with stronger ones, refining the controls and preparing the machine for flight with a person on board. That is no longer something you do after hours.
The arrangement is simple: we are looking for an investor to fund this stage and take equity in return. The size of the investment and of the stake is open — we have no fixed bracket and no ready-made valuation, because we would rather talk in specifics than compete on slide decks.
Write to us if this is your field. We will show you the machine in person, share the data, the test record and the plan for the next steps. Then we sit down to the numbers.
Contact
Investment enquiries, partnership ideas, questions about the project or a request to see the machine in person — it all comes straight to us.