Nice idea but I imagine an electric ducted fan would not push that draggy airframe down the runway, far less into the sky

Yes, give us your money because we've made a cool video. These kickstarter pie in the sky money scams are sure the rage these days. Kickstarter should put some skin in these projects so that they lose when everybody else loses. They also could win.

Solar panels on a purported practical aircraft are laughable. Even if solar technology advanced to 100% efficiency and zero weight . There isn't enough energy in the sunfall for it to be anything other than a gimmick.

A green dream that wont go anywhere....

Its about time Kickstarter insisted on a mandatory peer review of 'projects' such as this before allowing gullible punters to lose money on them. There is no way ducted fans of the size of those either side of the fuselage are going to be either efficient or silent. If parked up for a few weeks those solar panels may do some good but not in a day (compare the area of panels and the likely weight with that of the Airbus/QinetiQ Zephyr solar UAV). The small gap between the wings is also going to be pretty inefficient too.

I cannot imagine such an aircraft would be very maneuverable, especially in high winds; and the powerplant would clearly be incapable of compensating for this deficiency.

Giggle. . . Snort! . . . "Along with wind-turbine technology to allow battery-charging for the vehicle whilst it is in-flight or on the ground." Wait . . . In flight recharging with a WIND generator? Did he invent perpetual motion, or does he even understand the concept of drag? And there is a good reason whiy you don't see a lot of biplanes or triplanes commercially since the days of WWI! There is a great deal of inefficiencies in the the span wise drag. There is a reason biplanes and triplanes have positive or negative stagger, i.e. the leading edges are not in a vertical plane when seen sideways. And as for the increased glide safety! Can someone explain to this vapor plane designer why gliders have loooooong skinny monoplane wings?

I'd like to see the wind tunnel tests.

The wings are stepped the wrong way...

I'm always keen to see new innovations in aerospace, but there seems to be too many open questions about this one. A few simple calculations would show whether their many novel concepts are feasible. I had a look at their website and I didn't see any aerospace engineers on their team...