Name and Coordinates :
Aerial Creatures & Cognitive Integration, www.karenfuxia.com

Asset (NOV 2005):

Personal initiative carried on by Marco Testi full time. Attempting to self finance by selling spin off articles, receiving external contributions, offering partnerships

Values :
Be oneself, share life with people being themselves, be able to outdo minds and limitations, feel part of a whole

Vision :
Cognitive emboding

Mission :
Conceive, Develop and Fly aerial vehicles featuring extreme synergy between pilot and machine

Objectives (Update: FEB 2006):

• Main thread:
  • May 2006 XVST visual sensorial transposition is fixed as a "plug in" for R/C models
  • May 2006: XMB-01 scale model is built and flown
  • Jun 2006: XMB-01 prototype composite parts manufactoring is initiated
  • Sep 2006: XMB-01 engine, propeller, BRS commercial parts are granted through a sponsorisation optics
  • Sep 2006: XMB-01 prototype is assembled
  • Oct-Nov 2006: XMB-01 prototype is rigged for test flying
  • Dec 2006 XMB-01 prototype is test flown
  • Jun 2007: Public release of the XMB-01 demonstrator
  • Jul 2007: Partnership and funding for 4-5 MB-NG strap on aerial vehicles and marketing strategy for the Choreography Unit are signed up
  • Dec 2007: MB-NG are manufactured, Choreography Unit is operative and begins training
  • Jun 2008: First public appearence of the Choreography Unit

Peculiar factors :
Outstanding power of imagination. First rate integration of technical, scientifical and humanistical factors. Determination.

The initiative is carried on full time as a personal venture by Marco Testi, age 35, holding experiences as a robotic designer, a pilot, a musician, a degree in Physics and in Cognitive Science, patents concerning haptic sensorial transpositions for aircraft pilots, master-slave correlation for aerial vehicles, and more. Download his CV here

Marco is helped by collaborators dedicating their time/competences/resources on a free basis:

Present time:
- Muriel Gerbault, coaching and logistics. Without Muriel, forget Aerial Creatures & Cognitive Integration and me myself would have survived to the OCT/DEC 2005 hardstroke
- Haute Voltige, sport technique art & culture in the air, being the first people showing a promotional interest in the masterblaster initiative

Past time:
- Giorgio Travostino, CFD engineer, providing all the masterblaster CFD computations
- Andrea Laschi & Wife, providing their lab facilities for the masterblaster force&control exoskeleton prototyping (www.logoslab.it)
- Liliana Brandolese, Erna Schnaidt, coaching
- Flavia Carozza, CEO Safeline Pilots Training Specialists, providing contacts and promotional ideas
- GB Molinaro, aerobatic pilot, exchanging valuable information every now and then
- Austin Meyer, X-Plane flight simulator & Laminar Research owner/developer, adding 3+3 DOFs input capabilities for the X-Plane simulator release 8.10, needed to drive the synthetic masterblaster model
- Nil Geisweiller, music framing
- Marianna Menzione, artistic framing and coaching
- Giuseppe d'Urzo, Enrica Testi, Andrea Volpi, providing CAD workstations and notebooks AUG 2003-AUG2004 used to lay down the core masterblaster geometry, Andrea Volpi, trial of a FEM computation over a wing

Conceive, Develop and Fly aerial vehicles featuring extreme synergy between pilot and machine

This is realized by thinking pilot and machine as a master and slave system: outcoming contraptions are technological creatures/cyborgs rather than vehicles

These creatures are technological demonstrators, man-machine R&D envelope pushers, they are means of scientific and artistic expressivity in sky

Test flying and artistic performance is integral part of the mission

Commercial vehicles and scientific/technical R&D programs deriving from the demonstrators are considered spin-offs

Aerial Creatures & Cognitive Integration is a delicate enterprise and driven by a strong passion for what is being invented. It is a personal initiative carried on by Marco Testi full time, attempting to self finance by selling spin off articles, receiving external contributions, offering partnerships.

Articles come as one of a kind. They are dynamical objects, artwork, performances coming out as a side effect within the research topics. Are sold by the unit to finance Aerial Creatures & Cognitive Integration main R&D activities

Shares and contribution strategy is based on a fair agreement and concerns small amounts of money

Partnerships come through legal agreements

Marco Testi sought for standard/conventional assets in the past and found that Aerial Creatures & Cognitive Integration values or mission could not be maintained in a way or another, if not even understood. Current asset is an attempt to put to work a "natural selection rule"

Aerial Creatures & Cognitive Integration is a delicate enterprise and driven by a strong passion for what is being invented. Marco is interested in flying creatures technicisms, in the future of flying creatures under a man and synthetic flying organism perspective, and above all he is interested in go flight testing and constantly pushing the envelope of such creatures.

Partnerships are sought for with plain people (under no sort of formal and professional discrimination), enterprises and venture capitalists who:

• share similar interests
• hold a know-how or realising means which are contextualizable and effective in the initiative
• believe in potentialities and applications for the initiative:
  • breakthrough in vehicles for aerobatic flying and aerial sports
  • breakthrough in aerial choreography, live arts
  • breakthrough in structure, safety, concept for aerial vehicles
  • technological demonstrators/research vehicles and technologies for man-machine integration, cognitive embodiment
  • prestige, front end image for people/enterprises holding a vision sufficiently forward to withstand the reach being held by the initiative

Terms and characteristics of the partnership are aimed at making things work and in having a good feeling among us. You're welcome to write, bring in what you feel you can do, and we will talk over the terms of the partnership