Designed and built a fully custom carbon fiber ducted fan drone from the ground up. The goal of the drone was to create the safest drone for close proximity flying by having no exposed propellers. I went through the entire design process from idea to completion, doing extensive research for months on the best motor, battery, and electronics to use while fine-tuning the design of the drone. I used CAD and CFD to further optimize my design while I began the construction of the drone. I performed wet layups using carbon fiber and vacuum bagging the parts in a Ziploc vacuum bag. I performed thrust tests throughout the building process to ensure my calculations were correct and to see if any design parameters needed to be tweaked. The entire process took around 3 years and I am still in the process of getting a patent for the design.