Ryerson Helium

Experimental Project

Ryerson Helium is a recently founded design team under the Ryerson Engineering Student Society (RESS), aimed at designing and building a manned personal, lightweight, VTOL aircraft capable of long durations of flight with minimal noise output. The aircraft they are developing will use eight open propellers mounted coaxially in a quad copter formation, powered entirely through electricity. The aircraft will be designed to compete in Boeing’s inaugural Go Fly Competition by the end of 2019. Their current goal is to manufacture and test a scaled prototype of the aircraft in time for the Phase II submission in February, in hopes to expand further with a full-scale prototype and compete in the final fly-off in October of 2019.