Building flying wind turbines. (YC S19)
Munich, Bavaria
Joined March 2019
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✉ Read our latest newsletter here: lnkd.in/dYrY8ZFr
❗❗ Featured in it is the first episode of our new blog post series: Customer Stories! This episode sheds lights on Enerwhere - a microgrid developer from the Middle East. We interviewed Daniel Zywietz, Founder and..
chairman of Enerwhere, who explains exactly why Kitekraft systems are a match for their customers and endeavours. 💯
📰 You can also directly go to the blog post: kitekraft.de/blog/customer-s…
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closer to the power zone in which power generation is optimal:
🤖 AI controller
🎮 Improved AoA and AoS control parameters
💪 Extended tether force controllers
This can also be seen in the pictures below: During one of our flights the improvement of the trajectory can...
clearly be seen, with greener figure of eights later into the flight, when the AI controller was doing its magic ✨
The perfect symmetry of our flight path can also be seen in the stunning night shots from the wonderful @JuJuSmally 🤩
One of the things our team was able to lock in the during the latest test campaign is an improved flight path. Thanks to the following updates and additions to our control software, our flight path is now 27% more compact, ...
📰 Want to know the details and how we did it?
Go to our bog and read the full post: kitekraft.de/blog/long-durat…
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Last week, we already teased you with some pictures from our latest flights. In this post we have even more eye-candy for you: The footage from our last flight, which we live-streamed to YouTube!
Mother nature helped to paint this one, with a spectacular thunderstorm in the safe distance. ⚡
📺 Video-link: youtube.com/watch?v=pHFr8Q-r…
To get notified when we do another live-stream, subscribe to our newsletter (kitekraft.de/signup) and to our YouTube channel (youtube.com/@Kitekraft)!
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📝 In the next couple of posts, we want to give some more insights into our current test campaign, what it is aimed at, and which boxes we've already checked.
👨🔧 👩🔧 Our test engineers have been pumping up flight numbers the past months and we were able to significantly improve..
Additionally, other system upgrades, like the Anti-Collision-Lights, allow us to now fly 24-7 - See them in action in the stunning sunset shot below! 🤩
In our last newsletter we already talked about the complete sensor redundancy of our systems.
This is what happened since:
🌑 Night flights
🕔 Longest flights ever, recently crossing the 5h mark!
💻 New+updated controllers
📈 Improved flight path with 27% higher efficiency
🤖 Real-time optimization thanks to AI
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We are still live and going strong in our third flight - tune in!
kitekraft.de/livestream
👷♂️ without personell at the site (beyond visual line of sight - BVLOS),
💻 automatically - fly exactly as in the intended commercial operation.
This is a huge step for Kitekraft towards commercialization and validation for our approach.
We'd like to thank our partners at Luftfahrt-Bundesamt and are looking forward to our future collaboration. 📰 Read all the details about it and what our CEO Dr.-Ing. Florian Bauer thinks about it in our latest blog post: kitekraft.de/blog/kitekraft-…
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