Project Sphinx is a propeller-powered VTVL to demonstrate active control of a flight vehicle.
Vehicle Requirements:
- The vehicle shall controllably ascend vertically from the ground to 50 meters above ground level.*
- The vehicle shall perform a successful vertical landing within a 10 meter diameter landing circle.*
- The vehicle shall use a propeller or set of propellers mounted at the bottom of the vehicle and rotating about a shared axis as the only source of thrust.
- The vehicle shall be fully reusable.