“Practical
Solution to
21st
Century Transportation”
BOSTON--(BUSINESS
WIRE)--AeroCopter, Inc.,
located in Boston, Massachusetts, is an
entrepreneur-research based startup company that
is pioneering the third generation of airborne
transportation systems. The company has
completed a detail design configuration for a
commercial two-seat passenger Personal Air Vehicle
(PAV) and military/civilian Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
(UAV) aircraft, utilizing disruptive
technologies which consist of an advanced rotary
aircraft systems: a counter rotating
Mono-Tilt-Rotor (electromagnetic rotary
frictionless) and co-axial twisted electronic
blade control. This new advanced MTR VTOL
aircraft has the Vertical Take Off and Landing
(VTOL) capabilities of a helicopter with the
horizontal speed and payload of a traditional
jet airplane which enable on-demand and
point-to-point high speed transportation
services for Commercial and Military purposes
while reducing capital and operating
expenses.
The AeroCopter revolutionary VTOL PAV (Sarus)
and VTOL UAV (Kestrel)
uses a four-twisted blade, a MTR (ring), a
fuselage which is encircled by the vehicle’s
ring and one unified propulsion system which
provides a power source during hover and flight
modes. During take-off and landing flight operation,
the ring lies horizontally and provides downward
thrust to enable vertical take-off and landing.
Once the vehicle has reached an altitude of
1,000 feet the ring rotates gradually to an
angle of 87 degrees and locked to propel the
aircraft forwards. Sarus aircraft is
capable of carrying 2-8 passengers and their
baggage while Kestrel aircraft is
capable of carrying up to 400 lbs of food,
supplies and or weaponry systems. Sarus and
Kestrel have an estimated total gross weight of
2900 lbs and length (diameter) of 27 ft,
allowing a cruise speed in excess of 220 knots
at 8,000 feet and range of 300 nautical miles on
one tank of fuel.
The company was founded in 2000 and backed by
YAS Ventures LLC.
Said AeroCopter founder, Siamak Yassini, “At
AeroCopter, we have completely transformed the
rotary aircraft technology into a new and
innovative VTOL aircraft that will transform
aviation technology in the 21st
century in the same manner that the Internet and
the World Wide Web (WWW) transformed
communications and information flow in the
1990’s.”
Now, AeroCopter is moving into its second
stage of development, which will include the
search for additional funding and the
development of a prototype for flight
demonstration.
This release includes multimedia.
AeroCopter,
Inc.
Siamak Yassini, 617-585-9233
sia@aerocopter.com
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