AIRCRAFT · IN DEVELOPMENT

Aether.

Heavy lift, carried in on foot.

A folding coaxial-X8 multirotor one operator carries in. No vehicle, no trailer, no case. GhostOS runs the mission onboard.

15–20 lb

Payload objective

<2 min

Pack to airborne

Operator to carry it

01 / THE CLASS

Built for the space between.

ISR drones watch. Cargo drones lift, but need a vehicle and a crew. Aether is the aircraft in between: one operator carries it in, and it delivers, places, and recovers equipment where the road doesn't go.

ONE-PERSON PORTABLE

Four arms fold alongside the chassis, propellers attached, into a rucksack-sized carry. Battery in for a fast launch, or carried separately to lighten the load.

One person carries in an aircraft that hauls what ISR drones cannot.

02 / MISSION PAYLOADS

Carry, place, deliver, recover.

Payloads too large for an ISR aircraft, too small to justify a vehicle-carried octocopter.

MODULAR MISSION BAY

A standard underside bay: tool-free, locking, powered, with Ethernet, USB, and CAN. Payloads travel separately and go on in the field.

Medical suppliesComms relaysEO/IR sensorsMesh nodesBatteriesSAR equipment

LAND · OPERATE · RECOVER

For comms and sensor work it lands on high ground, shuts down, runs the payload for hours, then relaunches to recover or reposition. Persistence without burning energy in hover.

03 / AIRFRAME & AUTONOMY

Brains and propulsion.

GhostOS reasons onboard; the flight controller flies. Open avionics between them.

GHOSTOS AUTONOMY · PLANNED

Onboard agents handle mission tasking, replanning, obstacle avoidance, and GPS-degraded navigation. Native to TAK. See the approach →

COAXIAL X8 PROPULSION

Eight motors on four folding arms: X8 lift in a quad footprint, with redundancy built in.

04 / DEVELOPMENT TARGETS

Configure to the mission.

Figures below are engineering objectives, not rated specifications. Final numbers depend on flight testing.

ENDURANCE

Smaller payload, bigger battery, longer on station.

STANDARD UTILITY

Balanced battery and payload for delivery runs.

HEAVY SHORT-HAUL

Up to ~30 lb over shorter distances.

DEVELOPMENT PERFORMANCE TARGETS

Folded size

24–28 × 18–21 × 6–8 in

Flight-ready weight

≈ 30–40 lb

Payload objective

15–20 lb

Pack to airborne

under 2 min

CURRENT STATUS · IN DEVELOPMENT

Current focus: folding chassis, coaxial propulsion validation, endurance testing, and autonomy integration.

GhostForge covers how we prototype and test in house. For evaluation or partnership, get in touch.

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Internal industrial capability.

GhostForge is the in-house line that prototypes, builds, and tests the aircraft.

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