Jetoptera

Last week, our CEO @ Andrei Evulet went live on NBC to talk about a water-skimming aircraft we've started testing here in Washington.
That prototype traces back to a 2022 wind tunnel test combining our Fluidic Propulsive System® (FPS®) with an Upper Surface Blown wing. The data confirmed FPS can power vertical takeoff aircraft, and pointed to a second use: Wing in Ground Effect (WIG) aircraft, which fly low over water and gain extra lift from ground effect.
The same bladeless advantages of our FPS apply to WIG aircraft: quieter, less vibration, no propeller speed limit, and 189 patents behind the engineering that makes it possible. Andrei covered all of it live on NBC.
Find out more and watch the full interview here: https://shorturl.at/hBFIS

We’ve made tremendous progress on our technology in the past few months in preparation for the DARPA Lift Challenge. Our “Project Pegasus” submission is one of the most advanced implementations of our Fluidic Propulsive System that we’ve ever developed, and we’re proud to have been selected among hundreds of applicants to compete live in August.
After careful consideration and consultation with industry experts, we’ve made the difficult decision to withdraw from the DARPA Lift Challenge. This was not an easy call, but one that we are confident is best for our company and investors.
When we entered the Lift Challenge six months ago, the original brief aligned with a real-world cargo mission: build an aircraft under 55 pounds, including fuel, which was capable of lifting at least 110 pounds around a five-nautical-mile course.
As the event format evolved, the brief became less aligned with the way we intend to validate Pegasus for commercial aviation. DARPA introduced a 150-foot altitude limit, repeated back and forth laps of an 1,100-foot lane, and permission to jettison spent batteries in flight. While those parameters may be appropriate for DARPA’s experimental challenge environment, they create safety and liability considerations that are better addressed through our own controlled flight-test program.
We are grateful for the way the DARPA effort challenged us and helped create meaningful technical and commercial momentum.

In the past six months of working on Project Pegasus, we:
📦 Designed the J-110, a new lighter aircraft that will be part-108 compliant, powered by our Adaptive Fluidic Propulsive System® (FPS®)
💰 Cut the cost of a thruster by 94% and its weight by 82%.
🎛 Built flight controls from scratch and proved them on a hovering platform

And now we are taking all of it to Pendleton to test in real-world conditions.

Our CEO and co-founder Andrei Evulet lays out the full reasoning for our DARPA withdrawal and everything Project Pegasus delivered in our latest update on Wefunder: wefunder.com/jetoptera/updates

Tomorrow, a new FAA rule called MOSAIC goes into effect, and it draws the light sport aircraft category wide enough to include powered lift aircraft for the first time.

MOSAIC is good news for two Jetoptera aircraft: the two-seater J-2000 and the four-seater J-4000. Both fly using our Fluidic Propulsive System®, which replaces blades and propellers with directed airflow to take off, land, and propel the aircraft.
We conceptualized these aircraft years ago based on where we believed aviation needed to go. The FAA is finally catching up, and the specs in MOSAIC show how closely the rule now matches aircraft we already planned:

🏋️ Light sport aircraft no longer have a maximum weight limit
🌀 Any propulsion system simple enough for a pilot to operate safely is allowed
🚀 Top speed for the category is now capped at 250 knots
💺 Seating capacity increases to four seats
🪪 Only a sport pilot certificate is required to fly

We believe the J-2000 and the J-4000 as currently designed fit these new specs well. This development accelerates our path to commercialization and will allow us to offer our technology to a wider market.

With wind beneath our wings, there has never been a better time to be part of our story and back us on Wefunder (see link in comments).

Here's to the future of flight ✈️

Visit wefunder.com/jetoptera

Use cases for FPS aircraft

Vertical takeoff and landing get an aircraft into places with no runway: a hospital rooftop, a disaster zone, or a remote site with no road access, and they do so faster and closer than ground transport can. However today’s legacy technology powering helicopters and drones use exposed, spinning rotors, which are loud and put people nearby at risk. That’s exactly one of the risks Jetoptera is eliminating.
FPS removes the rotor and replaces it with a stream of accelerated air. The result is an aircraft that can take off vertically, cruise at jet speed, operate safely close to people, and fly missions that current VTOL aircraft cannot.
Our CEO Evulet recently posted an article on @ Wefunder on some of the use cases for FPS-powered aircraft. You can read it here: wefunder.com/jetoptera/updates
We’re excited by the many use cases for our technology and would love to hear from you where you would like to see our technology fly! Please drop your ideas in the comments below.

Washington just placed an $8.3M bet on VTOL, and it's great news for Jetoptera. 🛬

The FAA recently broke ground on V-PAR — a new $8.3 million research facility dedicated entirely to VTOL aircraft. It's one of several significant moves the FAA has made recently toward modernizing aviation regulation for the VTOL era.

Our CEO Andrei Evulet shared his thoughts about these developments and how they benefit Jetoptera on our Wefunder page. Read more here:

wefunder.com/jetoptera/updates.

We're glad to see the U.S. government invest in advancing our industry!

We just signed our lease to fly at the Pendleton Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Range in Oregon.

Pendleton, known as Dronetown USA, has a massive FAA-designated UAS test site created specifically to advance drone and autonomous aircraft integration into U.S. airspace. The range covers 14,000 square miles and is cleared for flight up to 15,000 feet, making it one of the largest FAA-designated test sites in the country.

Securing access to Pendleton means we can fly farther and higher, in a single stretch of cleared airspace, than we could at a site boxed in by nearby towns and restricted airspace. The range also features some incredibly diverse terrain, including high desert, forest, and river canyon which means we can run hover and transition tests across different wind and elevation conditions all on the same site.

Amazon, Anduril, Airbus, and Boeing's Insitu have all tested aircraft there, so we’re in good company.

There is still time to invest in the future of flight. We’ve raised $4.76M in this round, and just increased our target to meet investor demand.

Invest now or increase your investment.

Visit the link wefunder.com/jetoptera

Round extended!

We hit our Wefunder funding goal ahead of schedule, and the momentum hasn't slowed. 🎉 Over 900 investors have invested so far, and we’re still the #1 most raised active campaign on Wefunder.

Because demand remains strong, we've decided to expand the round and open up room for more investors.

The capital raised from this round goes toward commercializing the J-500 cargo drone and advancing the J-2000, our two-seat VTOL targeting 2027. Both aircraft run on the Fluidic Propulsive System® (FPS®), a bladeless propulsion architecture that outperforms conventional rotorcraft on noise, safety, and efficiency. The more we raise now, the faster we get there.

👉 To invest or increase your investment see the link in the comments.

Here's to the future of flight. ✈️

wefunder.com/jetoptera

Wow. We hit our funding target on Wefunder months ahead of schedule with over $2M raised from 900+ investors! And we are still the #1 MOST RAISED campaign on Wefunder for 8 weeks running. THANK YOU to everyone who believed in us again and again.

The capital from this Wefunder campaign advances two priorities: commercializing our J-500 cargo drone and engineering the J-2000, our two-seat aircraft targeting 2027.

Here is what some of our current-round investors have said about investing in Jetoptera:

"I have been following your updates and am very impressed with the steady progress towards commercial revenue. You have been maturing your FPS technology with non-dilutive Department of Defense funding and teaming with industry heavyweights." - Erik Meyer, lead investor

"This is the only vertical takeoff that does not use propellers. . . your technology will be a game changer." - Bill Ben Hackett, retired military, UC Berkeley alumnus

"I realized long ago that if a true flying car was to come about, it would require a new method of propulsion. FPS may be the first step." - Brian Purdy, retired USAF navigator

With so much investor interest, and because we hit our goal early, we are setting the bar higher and working on making space for more investors. That means you can still invest or increase your position!

The more we raise today, the sooner we can see our J-series aircraft in the skies.

Invest now or increase your investment. See the link below.

Here’s to the future of flight. ✈️

link: wefunder.com/jetoptera

https://youtu.be/pXnHxDnBpLc

Meet Smith. 👋

Graham is a mechanical aerospace engineering student at @ Princeton gaining valuable real-world experience at Jetoptera this summer by testing the hardware at the core of our aircraft.

In the video, Graham shows a test rig he built that measures thrust output of our Fluidic Propulsive System® units across a range of pressure inputs, mass flow rates, and intake geometries. The data validates our CFD simulation models and shows how the FPS scales from small test units to full-sized hardware. ⚙️

This particular test setup runs on electricity, and the FPS is designed to work across fuel sources which is a meaningful advantage as aviation propulsion continues to evolve. ⚡

Our investment round on Wefunder is almost at capacity - invest in the future of aviation or share this round with someone who might be interested. See the link in the comments.
Here's to the engineers building the future of flight. ✈️

wefunder.com/jetoptera

Meet our interns: Graham Smith, Princeton University (2029) Graham describes his work over the summer of 2026

We recently completed a full-scale thruster test at AeroTEC's facility in Moses Lake, Washington. Some people compare our bladeless thruster to a Dyson fan, which visually is not far off. But design wise, conceptually and operationally, the Fluidic Propulsive System® (FPS) is on a different level entirely. Use of ejectors in Aviation predates Dyson by decades, and the FPS is a type of bladeless thruster augmentor on steroids.

In the video, our CEO is standing 100 feet downstream of this 250 lbf class thruster and the airflow is strong enough to dry his hair! While personal grooming is a nice side effect, this additive manufactured thruster also generates enough thrust to lift an aircraft off the ground.

https://youtu.be/DNFTFznQXqI?si=yQvkJ9RRiw4ImKqK

The video shows the additive manufactured rear thruster of the J-500, which shares its design with the front thruster of the J-2000, our two-seat VTOL aircraft targeted for introduction in 2027. What you see in the video — a large mass of air moving at speed — is a direct representation of the impressive thrust our system generates.

And we can vector thrust this in less than 5 seconds to 90 degrees…and back.

You can fuel our commercial progress and be part of our story by investing through @ Wefunder. We have limited space left in the round. See the link in the comments.

Here's to the future of flight. ✈️

wefunder.com/jetoptera

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