Independent coverage of BECCARII and of its inventor, Witold Mielniczek. Every item below was verified by opening the source — not by matching a headline.
Television
- TVP „Pytanie na śniadanie” (Polish national television) — „A multi-purpose vehicle out of a science-fiction novel”
Industry
- eVTOL.news (Vertical Flight Society) — B-Technology BECCARII company profile
Press
- Rzeczpospolita / cyfrowa.rp.pl — „This Polish vehicle could be a hit. It drives, swims and flies”
- Forsal.pl (Gazeta Prawna) — „A company from Jasionka wants to build a drone that carries a person”
- My Company Polska — „The boy who dreamed he could fly. BECCARII is more than a drone”
- Newseria Innowacje — „A Polish company is working on a superdrone that flies, drives and swims”
- autokult.pl — „A Pole’s flying vehicle draws interest abroad”
- android.com.pl — „Poles did the impossible” (USAF Agility Prime, October 2023)
- biznesistyl.pl — „BECCARII flies, drives and swims — the world’s first crewed vehicle of its kind”
- mambiznes.pl — „A unique vehicle built in Jasionka: it flies, drives and swims”
- portalsamorzadowy.pl — „Jasionka: incubator company aims to build a human-carrying drone”
- Główny Mechanik (2019) — „The flying tank from Podkarpacie conquers the world”
English-language coverage of the early project
- Inhabitat — „Remote-controlled car-helicopter hybrid transitions from air to land seamlessly”
- UKTN (2013) — „The indestructible remote-controlled flying car”
Peer-reviewed and competition record
The founder’s work has a documented research trail, including a win in the DARPA UAVForge Challenge 2012 with Team HALO (University of Southampton):
- „HALO — the Winning Entry to the DARPA UAVForge Challenge 2012″, Springer, HCI 2013, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-39238-2_20
- „Selecting a small UAV system using the DARPA crowdsourcing model”, IEEE SSRR 2012, DOI 10.1109/SSRR.2012.6523914
- Advances in Science and Technology Research Journal — author profile
- dblp — publication record
Company data platforms
Competition
GoAERO Prize — Team BECCARII is a finalist; the Fly-Off takes place at NASA Ames, Moffett Federal Airfield.
Media enquiries
ceo@beccarii.com · +48 513 006 720 · B-Technology Sp. z o.o., Jasionka 954E, 36-002 Jasionka, Poland. Logotypes and imagery available on request.
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Research and development collaboration
B-Technology works with the Łukasiewicz Research Network — Institute of Aviation on the BECCARII multi-environment vehicle. The company is also a member of the DUALTEC cluster in Jasionka, on the site of the Rzeszów aviation hub.
These are the kind of relationships worth more than a press release: an aviation research institute does not put its name on a concept sketch.
Working with us on a story
The description we use consistently, everywhere, without variation: BECCARII is the world’s first all-terrain VTOL vehicle — one machine that drives on composite tracks, takes off vertically, flies and swims. Built by B-Technology Sp. z o.o. (Poland, 2016), protected by a granted patent family covering 50+ jurisdictions.
If you need a specific figure verified before publication, ask. We will either confirm it with a source or tell you plainly that it is not yet confirmed — performance numbers from an earlier project phase are under revision and we do not publish them. What is verifiable today is set out on the fact sheet, and every patent number resolves in Google Patents and Espacenet.
High-resolution images, video and expert comment: ceo@beccarii.com · +48 513 006 720.
B-Technology Sp. z o.o., Jasionka 954E, 36-002 Jasionka, Poland.
Related
Fact sheet · Patent family · How the vehicle works · Mission profiles · Wersja polska