‘Skyaak Canadian Ring Wing Glider’ as artist’s muse

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Check this short clip out of California. It was such a rush to see the Skyaak Ultra-Glow experimental prototype flying around in the night skies over Berkeley Campus!
About the video:

Here’s a little bit of night flight with my new Skyaak Model 3 with the light kit. Flight is great, but more than that, this [...]

Behind the scenes of Skyaak R&D

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

Lest I get convicted for IP theft, please let me make it clear from the outset that the artwork on the left is of unknown origin, other than I found it at today’s Google search engine.
I am posting it as a very warm compliment to Google. They have extremely good taste in this instance. I [...]

Teaser of Skyaak Ultra-Glow prototype

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

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Just a teaser of Skyaak Ultra-Glow prototype in action in the pitch-dark … the guys hafta wear glow-in-the-dark bracelets so they have something to aim at … this eliminates totally wild throws.
Curious? Scratch the itch for just two bucks right now. That’s right. You can download, dope with clear tape (or laminate), customize, cut out, [...]

Skyaak Getting Out There

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

There is a Skyaak Model 3 with Ultra-Glow LED kit flying around right now in Montreal and also in Oakland, CA. Genevieve Paradis, features producer at Z Tele of Astral Media has received her Skyaak package in ship-shape condition and tells me that she is taking it to a professional foot-ball player for a [...]

Building more Skyaak Ultra-Glows

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

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This scintillating video shows Dylan hot-wiring the Skyaak Ultra-Glow guts. He has placed a ‘pod’ against the disco light so you can see how the pod sucks up the LED light. This discovery lead us to invent the idea of inserting a tiny replica Skyaak inside the shaft so as it travels back and forth, [...]

Skyaak Ultra-Glow R and D Advance

Monday, September 29th, 2008

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Skyaak developer Dylan Cooke shows the latest Skyaak R&D advance, an LED light array that enables night-time play.
The request from the Feature Producer at Z Tele for a Skyaak ‘Ultra-Glow’ sent me scrambling into Saskatoon over the weekend to hook up with Dylan, who you will remember is one of the key developers of the [...]