PsiWings/Roadmap

Four years.
One continuous
engineering question.

The Kyte program is designed as a single arc across Grade 9 – Grade 12. Each aircraft asks a deeper version of the same underlying question: how can a small electric aircraft understand and use its energy better?

Program length
4 years
Aircraft generations
X1 → X4
Target effort
~200 hrs / yr
Currently
Grade 9 · X1
Gr. 9 · X1 · Understand Gr. 10 · X2 · Predict Gr. 11 · X3 · Optimize Gr. 12 · X4 · Understand itself Gr. 9 · X1 · Understand Gr. 10 · X2 · Predict Gr. 11 · X3 · Optimize Gr. 12 · X4 · Understand itself
Chapter 01
GRADE 9
2026
·2027
Kyte X1
Understand
In development
Blueprint-grid diagram of Kyte X1 with four sensor callouts (Pitot, Battery, Motor, IMU) branching off to the right — the first honest measurement of flight energy.
FIG. 01 · Kyte X1 · The first honest measurement CURRENT DEVELOPMENT

Understand.Where does the energy go?

"How accurately can real energy consumption be predicted from basic flight state?"
— Primary learning
  • Flight fundamentals
  • Aerodynamics
  • Energy · power
  • Sensors & instrumentation
  • Python & flight-data analysis
— Main output
  • Kyte X1 airframe · v0.1
  • Flight-energy dataset
  • First aerodynamic model
  • Baseline endurance report
Chapter 02
GRADE 10
2027
·2028
Kyte X2
Predict
Future
Kyte X2 flying into a widening prediction cone with min / most-likely / max envelope markers, faint trailing lines representing the known past.
FIG. 02 · Kyte X2 · What can be seen ahead FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

Predict.How much flight is left?

"Can physics + data together improve remaining-flight-time prediction versus either alone?"
— Primary learning
  • Embedded software
  • Data science
  • Battery behaviour
  • Prediction models
  • Statistics + intro ML
— Main output
  • Endurance prediction system
  • Confidence-aware estimates
  • Cross-flight validation report
  • Endurance Intelligence v0
Chapter 03
GRADE 11
2028
·2029
Kyte X3
Optimize
Future
Kyte X3 solar-electric aircraft flying diagonally up-right, threading through copper wind arrows and sunlight beams while rejecting higher-cost alternate paths.
FIG. 03 · Kyte X3 · Use what the world offers FUTURE RESEARCH

Optimize.Use energy intelligently.

"Can the aircraft alter how it flies to meaningfully extend useful endurance?"
— Primary learning
  • Optimization
  • Solar energy
  • Energy management
  • Flight strategy
  • Atmospheric effects
— Main output
  • Adaptive energy-management experiments
  • SolarWing research begins
  • Wind-aware route report
  • Kyte X3 flight campaign
Chapter 04
GRADE 12
2029
·2030
Kyte X4
Understand itself
Long-term
Kyte X4 aircraft at the center of a self-referential feedback loop with four cardinal nodes — Expected · Actual · Residual · Revised — cycling around it.
FIG. 04 · Kyte X4 · The aircraft as its own instrument LONG-TERM RESEARCH

Understand itself.Health-aware endurance.

"Can aircraft condition be incorporated into real-time endurance prediction?"
— Primary learning
  • Anomaly detection
  • Aircraft-health analysis
  • Model residuals
  • Multi-variable reasoning
  • Digital modelling
— Main output
  • FlightGuardian research prototype
  • Model residual dataset
  • Health-aware endurance system
  • Program summary paper
CHAPTER 05
— Beyond the four years

Long-term vision.

Six directions the four-year Kyte program could grow into after Grade 12. None of these are committed — they are the disciplines this program is deliberately laying the foundation for.

Majestic long-endurance solar-electric aircraft flying toward a distant horizon with six orbiting concept badges around it: Endurance Intelligence · Flight Guardian · Solar Wing · Advanced Electric · Autonomous Aircraft · Aerospace Electronics.
FIG. 05 · Beyond the four years · Six long-term directions VISION · NOT COMMITTED
Vision 01
Endurance Intelligence

Mature energy-awareness platform for small electric UAVs. The X2 vision grown into a real product.

Vision 02
FlightGuardian

Health-aware mission-decision system for real deployments. What X4 was designed to seed.

Vision 03
SolarWing

Long-endurance solar-electric research airframe. Beyond experimental — a real long-flight aircraft.

Vision 04
Advanced electric aircraft

Beyond experimental scale. Original clean-sheet designs — the point of an aeronautical engineer.

Vision 05
Autonomous aircraft

Real autonomy grounded in the aerodynamic and energy models built in Kyte X1 – X4.

Vision 06
Aerospace electronics

Custom FPGA / semiconductor exploration — with mentor guidance from the family technology ecosystem.

— The commitment

Four years.
Four generations.
One continuous question.

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