Autonomous Airborne Wind Flight May 9, 2013

On May 9th, 2013, the Makani team conducted the first fully autonomous flight of an airborne wind generation system. The following video illustrates this landmark turnkey flight (launch, hover, power generation, hover, land) with footage compiled from several recent tests. For a shortened video showing all flight modes in real time: launch, hover, power generation, hover and land, see: Makani’s Airborne Wind Turbine is a tethered wing that generates power by flying in lar