Engineering and flight-test notes

Notes from the workshop

How we design, build and fly fast autonomous aircraft. Written by the people doing it, in the order it happened.

31 March 2026

Crew Manifest #1: somewhere between ten and thirty aircraft

A manifest lists who is aboard in the order they came aboard, so ours starts with employee number one. Patrick Ward came to us from underground mining, has destroyed somewhere between ten and thirty of our aircraft, and rides an electric unicycle up mountains.