Wayfarer Aircraft

Wayfarer Aircraft Research and Development is a San Diego aerospace company developing Waylift, a patented, stowable wing modification that gives existing aircraft ultra-short takeoff and landing capability.

We're flight testing a one-third-scale demonstrator at Jacumba Airport as part of a NASA-sponsored research program, gathering the flight data needed to scale Waylift onto aircraft already in service. The goal is aircraft that can move cargo and people into places with little or no runway, without the cost and complexity of a clean-sheet aircraft or a VTOL system.

This channel documents that flight test program from the ground up: taxi tests, first flights, and everything in between, along with a look at how the technology actually works and the team building it. No airport. No problem.