The System
Not a vehicle company. An infrastructure company that happens to build vehicles.
Five-Layer Architecture
Physics
The laws that can't be negotiated. Thrust-to-weight ratios, battery energy density, structural loads. Every design decision starts here.
Hardware Safety MCU
Independent microcontroller with physical authority to kill flight. Not connected to the flight computer. Not overridable by software. The last line of defense.
Flight Control
Deterministic state machine. Explicit states, explicit transitions, explicit guard conditions. No undefined behavior. No probabilistic decision-making.
Chairlift OS
The operating system that manages a single vehicle's mission: pre-flight checks, corridor following, landing, and charging. Every mission is a state machine with a known beginning and end.
Fleet Cloud
Dispatch, telemetry, weather gating, corridor management, and fleet optimization. The intelligence layer that turns individual vehicles into an infrastructure network.
Infrastructure-First
Pads define the network. Corridors connect them. Software-defined routing means new routes are configuration changes, not construction projects. The pad is the interface between the vehicle and the ground — charging, boarding, weather sensing, and communications.
- Pads are engineered landing zones with integrated charging, weather stations, and passenger interfaces.
- Corridors are software-defined flight paths between pads. New corridors can be added without hardware changes.
- The network scales by adding pads and corridors, not by building new infrastructure.
Constraint Is the Feature
| What We Don't Do | What We Do |
|---|---|
| Fly anywhere | Fly fixed corridors between engineered pads |
| Fly at any altitude | Fly at 6–12 meters AGL |
| Carry any payload | Carry 2–3 passengers, weight-checked |
| Allow manual control | Fly fully autonomously |
| Make probabilistic decisions | Use deterministic state machines |
| Operate in unknown conditions | Refuse to fly when conditions are uncertain |
Every constraint makes the system safer, more predictable, and more certifiable. We don't aspire to fly everywhere. We aspire to fly the same corridors, thousands of times, without incident.
Vehicle Specifications
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| Specification | Value |
|---|---|
| Passengers | 2–3 |
| Propulsion | 8 electric motors, coaxial configuration |
| Power | Battery-electric, pad-charged |
| Flight altitude | 6–12 meters AGL |
| Corridor type | Fixed, software-defined |
| Structure | Carbon fiber composite airframe |
| Charging | Automatic pad-mounted, between flights |
| Control | Fully autonomous, no manual input |
| Safety | Independent hardware Safety MCU, physical E-stop |
| Navigation | GNSS + LiDAR + pad-relative positioning |
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