Flies further
The wing holds its most efficient shape at every stage of the flight, so the same aircraft goes further and stays up longer.
Morphing wing technology
A wing built for
ever-changing conditions.
It changes shape in flight. At will.
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Where every aircraft starts
Every aircraft flies with a decision made years ago.
An engineer chose one wing shape, and every flight since has used it. Right for one moment, wrong for all the others. A bird never has this problem. It reshapes its wing every second it flies.
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Meet Wyvern
The whole wing moves.
Wyvern is a wing that reshapes itself in flight. Not a flap on the back edge: the whole wing.
The wing adapts. The mission holds.
Lighter and simpler
No flaps. No ailerons. Fewer moving parts means less weight to carry and less to jam, wear out or break.
More agile
Each wing reshapes on its own, so the wing itself steers the aircraft. Sharper turns and quicker rolls.
Full negative lift
The wing can flip its shape and push the aircraft down. Drop fast and fly hard manoeuvres when the mission demands it.
Short take-off and landing
A deeply curved wing for take-off and landing, a slim one for cruise. The aircraft needs less ground to get up and to come down.
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Five missions. One wing.
Flies further
Fewer landings. More ground searched.
The light is going and someone is missing somewhere in open country. One UK police drone unit reports that its pilots land about every 25 minutes to change batteries, and every landing is minutes when nobody is looking. A Wyvern aircraft flies further on the same energy, so the search keeps going.
Lighter and simpler
Nothing to jam. Nothing to fix.
A reconnaissance team works from a forward position, a long way from any workshop. A conventional wing has flaps and ailerons that can jam in dust or cold. Wyvern has none, and every gram saved is a gram of battery or sensor added.
More agile
Every row. Every corner.
A farmer needs the whole crop surveyed before the spray goes on: long fields, hedgerows, tree lines and a tight turn at the end of every row. The aircraft has to fly low, turn hard at each headland and line up again for the next pass. Each Wyvern wing reshapes on its own, so the wing itself does the steering.
Full negative lift
When the air pushes up, push back.
In 2023 Canada had its worst wildfire season on record, with more than 10 million hectares burned. Over a fire that size, rising hot air throws a light aircraft upwards, and the crew needs it low to see where the fire is moving. Wyvern reverses its shape and pushes the aircraft back down.
Short take-off and landing
No runway. Just the site road.
A road crew needs the new route mapped before the earthworks start, along a corridor that runs for kilometres through fields and forest. There is no airfield, only the site compound and a gravel access road. Wyvern deepens its curve for take-off and landing, so the aircraft needs less ground to get up and to come down.
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The evidence
A published study found significant extended range.
Researchers modelled a reshaping wing on the RQ-7 Shadow, a US Army reconnaissance aircraft, against the flapped wing it flies today. Wyvern takes the same idea further: it reshapes the whole wing, not only its curve.
Comparative range index
CONVENTIONAL WING = 100
Dr Bruce W. Jo, Tennessee Technological University, and Tuba Majid, ETH Zürich. “Enhanced Range and Endurance Evaluation of a Camber Morphing Wing Aircraft.” Biomimetics (MDPI), peer-reviewed, 2023.
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The builders
The people building Wyvern.
Founder & Inventor
Alex Berry
Inventor with a track record of taking hard mechanical IP through repeated physical prototypes to clinically tested hardware. Leads product vision, mechanism development and company formation.
Director of Development
Rafal Stasienko
Over 10 years in industrial technology. Started in sales and marketing at Infinitech3D, building an industrial 3D-printing business serving Lockheed Martin, Airbus, PGZ, GE and the European Space Agency. Later brokered technology initiatives with PKN ORLEN, PGNiG, LOTOS and Siemens. Law background.
Leads business development, sales, marketing, partnerships and investor relations.
Lead Engineer
Julian Swan
Chartered Engineer (BEng, MSc, CEng, MIED) with over 35 years in engineering design and technology development. As Aerospace Manager and CAA signatory at RFD, he designed and certified helicopter-mounted deployment systems and redesigned Concorde escape slides. Founder of The Imagination Factory.
Leads engineering through The Imagination Factory: technical direction, design review and specialist coordination.
Core team of three, supported by outsourced engineering, production and software specialists.
Separately, if required, we also have access through the Newton Gateway to Mathematics for specialist mathematical modelling of the geometry, if necessary.
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Where we are
The maths is worked out. The wing is built.
Alex Berry worked through the mechanics of how the wing should move, then built a full bench demonstrator. The structure shown is the real Wyvern wing.
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Join us
Be part of the first flight.
Clients
Put it to work
For military, fire and rescue, agriculture and roadworks teams. Tell us your mission and we will show you what the wing can do for it.Tell us your mission ↗Engineers