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In due time this site should feature:



  • A novel very fast VTOL-capable 4-6 seat 'flying car' for point-to-point travel independent of airports or the road network.  (The VTO-phase may not involve any horizontally-rotating fan blades.)


  • A range of acceptably-quiet VTOL-capable GA amd regional aircraft - in sizes  seating up to 49 people - with a range of 500 kms. or 2hrs, whichever is the greater.  Other versions should be cost-effective for military logistics, flying aid from ships to hurricane-stricken islands, aerial firefighting, pilot training, CASEVAC, etc.


  • Some ultra-short-take-off-and-landing STOL aircraft costing less than VTOL-capable ones:  ideal for situations where pure-VTOL is not really needed. And for moving high payloads short distances.



Common to the above projects is a flight profile promising a very-brief stabilised VTO-phase, followed by rapid electronically-stabilised transition to normal flight when fixed wings  will take on all  the load, later followed by a programmable gradual or vertical descent to a pre-set  waypoint. Also, each will have a BRS for a soft landing in an emergency.


Credibly-promised are environmentally-friendly QSTOL-capable flying machines able fly at over 300 knots free of vibration, gyroscopic, and precession issues: so without many of the  design contraints associated with rotorcraft and with scope for higher MTOWs too.


The secret of the  VTO phase - no forward movement - is that it may be achieved by flowing air laterally over a plurality of  specially-adapted short  fixed wings (and other parts) to maximise lift.   The 'other parts' do not add a lot of extra weight or contribute significant extra drag. Further they operate only during optional VTOL.  Not otherwise.


(Answers to some general FAQs will be on this site later.)




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