Penn State University Blue Sparrow

Blue Sparrow
Penn State University
Centre City, Pennsylvania, USA

Students and faculty at Penn State University Aerospace Engineering designed Blue Sparrow to be scalable, robust, safe, and fun to fly. Team captain Jack Langelaan told the Penn State Newsletter, “we chose this configuration because it provides good controllability and reduces the power required to fly within the size constraints imposed by the competition”. On June 14, 2018, it was selected as a Phase 1 winner of the GoFly competition.

Resources:

• News Release: GoFly Winners, GoFly, June 14, 2018
• Article: Boeing’s $2 Million Challenge to Make the Sky Fun Again—With ‘Flying Motorbikes’, Wired, June 14, 2018
• Article: Boeing Asked for Quiet Jetpacks and Got a Bunch of Air Motorcycles, Bloomberg, June 14, 2018
• Article: Contest Aims to Lift Personal Flying Machines Off the Page, The New York Times, June 14, 2018
• Article: Here are the Finalists for Boeing’s $2 million ‘Personal Flying Device’ Contest, The Verge, June 14, 2018
• Article: Meet the Mad Geniuses Building Personal Flying Machines, Fast Company, June 14, 2018
• Article: Penn State's Blue Sparrow Team Named Phase I Winner of GoFly Prize, Penn State Engineering, June 14, 2018
• Article: GoFly Inspires Innovation, Vertiflite, May/June 2020