Good news: our first 40 aircraft are already shipping

While most of the world spent the weeks between Christmas and New Year eating leftovers and pretending they’d “just pop out for a quick walk”, Josef — one of our co-founders — disappeared into his workshop.

Armed with a small army of 3D printers and the kind of patience you only develop by building remote-controlled aircraft for racing competitions, Josef produced 40 scale-models of our E5 aircraft. Not copies. Proper little one-offs: each with its own unique paint job — and a few even featuring positioning lights and moving propellers, because apparently sleep is optional when you’re building hardware.

“It was honestly refreshing to do something hands-on for a change,” says Josef. “You spend so much time in meetings, documents, and CAD. Building these models reminded me why we’re doing this — to make something real.”

The result is a batch of self-assembly kits complete with IKEA-style instructions (minus the missing screws, ideally). They’re now making their way to potential customers and investors — because if you’re building a new aircraft, a PDF can only take you so far.

We’re a hardware company. So it shouldn’t be surprising that we believe physical interaction beats purely digital experiences. Seeing the E5 on a screen is one thing. Holding it, building it, putting it on your desk and quietly judging the structural integrity of your own assembly skills — that’s when it becomes tangible.

And if a brown paper package turns up at your office, don’t be alarmed. It just means you’re one of the lucky forty recipients.

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