Alexander was a radio controlled helicopter model enthousiastic for years. Always looking for the detail that enhanced performance, he always was working in his atelier on his oily, greezy, noisy machines.
One day, and somewhat in competition with fellow-hobyists, he started working on a small as possible model. Were others failed or simply gave it up, he continued to experiment, building, rebuilding, testing, inventing new technical solutions because of on this micro-scale things are different, and finally his first model took of on march 1997 : the Pixel 1.

Development: after this first succes, Alexander continued to experiment. He found 'a partner in crime': the Norwegian Petter Muren . He also was working on micro-flying machines and was succesful although he approched the problems from a different angel.

Did you know that mathematical models indicate that the fat flies can not fly? And yet I get crazy every time their buzzing hangs around in my house. Till  proof of the opposite, they seem to fly very well indeed. The point is that whatever the mathematics say, you will have to give it a try. 'He succeeded because he did not know it was impossible' is an applicable statement.

His work and experiments resulted in newer, smaller and better models. Much was possible due to evolution in micro-electronics, specialy batteries.
On his way to further succes, Alexander patented some of his inventions, which are now widely used by RC-model manufacturers all over the world. In return, he was able to get the latest model electronics.

The Pixelito:

Petter Muren and Alexander met in October 2003 for the weekend at Alexander's place in Belgium. They are convinced that this was a rare encounter of two men who spend hours, days, years of brain cell effort in unraveling rotor theory seen thought the eyes of a non academicals mind. That weekend they took up the challenge together to go for something that would at least surprise a few, hopefully please many. That was the beginning of the development of the Pixelito and the Proxflyer Micron. They kept each other informed about the progress by e-mail. And they decided not to compete for the same spot. So they both froze the spec at 6.9 grams, each of them being convinced that there is plenty of room to go even lower.

Finally, Alexander came with his Pixelito and Petter with his Proxflyer.

Around 1500, Leonardo da Vinci already had a dream about kind of a helicopter. His concept proved not to be working. But this dream still manages to inspire people, with the new available technolgy, to do something about it. Links : The Pixelito         : The Proxflyer