Wizbe Innovations

01/09/2020

It's work.

10/08/2019

02/26/2019

Powered PowerChute Take Off. Preparation for Air Drop Testing.

09/03/2018

Checkout our newest project...

What's that up in the sky? It's a bird, it's a plane...it's a kite that collects energy from the wind. Wizbe Industries is developing a kit...

10/07/2017

Still flying. NASA's Aeropod for stable photography holder on our steerable kite.

09/23/2016

07/01/2016

Flight control testing

06/23/2016

Wizbe Innovations in Manchester has been awarded a $114,000 Small Business Innovative Research Phase I program from NASA for the development of airfoil controlled glide and directional control in ram air canopies.
During the Phase I effort, Wizbe will collect data from small-scale prototype flights to demonstrate the ability to steer the canopy through the use of in-canopy controls and evaluate the use of air valves within the canopy to provide increased lift.
The NASA program has potential in recovery systems, unmanned aerial vehicles and return flights. There is a growing desire for recovery systems that provide extended cross-range capability and are steerable to enable precision landing of payloads. Using a recovery system that enables landings to specific coordinates can dramatically reduce suborbital flight recovery costs and future space return flight costs in the Earth’s atmosphere. It also has potential in Mars’ atmosphere, where a lightweight, low-volume flight system such as a parafoil can increase the range of motion across the planet with increased lift or reduced drag.
A fabric ram air canopy can be dramatically lighter weight than a foldable composite system while still being able to provide long-range glide and descent rate control. Wizbe Innovations has developed a unique, lightweight fabric system to control airflow in textile based ram air canopies. Controlling the airflow provides glide and directional control to improve steering, potentially increase lift, and potentially reduce opening shock. Another potential advantage to moving the controls into the canopy is that it reduces field logistics by reducing retrieval to only the parachute canopy itself. Wizbe’s controls are located within the parachute and have no winches, pulleys and wires outside the canopy.

05/09/2016

Wizbe Innovations has been selected for a NASA SBIR Phase I Program. More information to come!

06/15/2015

SBIR Phase II Enhancement is underway. Continued development of a parachute with controllable air flow. View our airdrop video at: http://wizbeinnovations.com/fabric-with-controllable-airflow.html We're looking forward to bigger, better tests!

Pucker Chute for Slowing Air Speed During Descent Wizbe Innovations .

12/10/2014

"ComposiMold Speak" Spring 2014

05/29/2014

"ComposiMold Speak" Winter 2014