JAYU JAYU RAY GoFly Prize

GoFly is a $2 million competition to make people fly. Join us for the Final Fly Off on Leap Day, February 29, 2020.

We’re calling on the world’s greatest thinkers, designers, engineers, and inventors to make the impossible possible. Today we look to the sky and say, “That plane is flying.” We challenge innovators around the world to create a device that makes us look to the sky and say, “That person is flying.”

GoFly welcomes revolutionary design, and our Technical Rules provide room for invention. The personal flying device must be safe, quiet, ultra-compact, and near-VTOL—capable of carrying a single person for a distance of 20 miles without refueling or recharging. The invention should be user-friendly and, of course, provide the thrill of flight. Outside of these requirements, the function and design are up to innovator teams.

Over the next two years, individuals and teams from around the globe will compete for $2 million in prizes, accessing global experts to bring their ideas to life.

Together, we will make people fly.

[goflyjayu]

Thank you very much for capturing and sharing this footage so quickly! While we would have loved to scale up more quickly, we were unable to secure funding quite quick enough. We did complete a half-scale version, the Big Skate, which we displayed in our tent but could not clear for event flight in time. Follow us here and on Instagram @goflyjayu to see that! (The version shown here is the JAYU Skate, a quarter-scale model of the ultimate manned version, which we also plan to complete soon with lessons learned from both scale models.)

[EpicSpaceflight]

Im surprised more of these vehicles were not full scale.

[davestubbs]

Not even a scale pilot in a seat to show how this feasibly carries a human?

[lmramos]

Have we gone backwards ten years??? Nothing innovative.