• Perpetual flight is not possible with Solar-Electric. Battery power density not predicted to be adequate for 7-10 years. 

• Luminati-invented wind energy harvesting algorithms and autopilots are a major enabling technology allowing perpetual flight

• We are able to harvest energy from horizontal and vertical gusts or gradients in the wind field. 

• UAV propulsion power requirements can be significantly reduced, and even eliminated, under realistic wind gust conditions thus removing poor battery power density as the limiting factor. 

• Birds fly in V-formation to provide up to 30% drag reduction. 

• Luminati has developed high-performance algorithms and autopilots for vortex seeking, formation flying. Reductions in drag on trailing aircraft of up to 60% are being realized. 

• Luminati’s inventive vortex seeking technology, and specialized autopilot design for this application, are a major enabling technology allowing perpetual flight. 

• Woven composite strength is directly proportional to the number and density of criss-crossing nodes in the woven fiber. 

• Luminati has developed unique non-crimp fiber designs and process equipment to produce structures which have close to the theoretical limit of strength. 

• Luminati composites are stronger and lighter than composites that can be produced by any other group. 

• Founder Daniel Preston’s composite technology has been on display in the Smithsonian Museum opposite the 1903 Wright flyer as an example of state of the art then and now. It has also been featured in the Cooper Hewitt, Metropolitan and Wexner museums. 

• Luminati is pioneering virtual morphing wings. In place of conventional slow moving large mechanical surfaces, Luminati is utilizing arrays of synthetic jets to morph the apparent shape of a wing. 

• Distributed control surfaces: thousands of synthetic jets across the wing provide high response rates and redundancy for flight control. 

• Allows controlled aeroelastic deformation and gust load alleviation. This is an enabling technology to safely flying very large lightweight flexible aircraft. 

• Very high bandwidth response increases the amount of energy that can be harvested from wind gusts.