Planes have been around for more
than 100 years. The first modern helicopter first flew over 80 years ago. For
the last 60 years engineers have tried to combine the advantages of both but
currently only the V-22 Osprey is in production. Elytron will
be the first to deliver aircrafts that can take off and land like a helicopter
but fly with fixed wings at speeds unattainable by helicopters all with greatly
reduced complexity and cost compared to any existing tilt or rotary wing
aircraft. After 10 years of research into convertiplane wing and lift design, a
box wing design with central prop-rotors was chosen providing aerodynamically
clean vectored thrust.
For the past 60 years, engineers
have tried to combine the advantages of airplanes and helicopters, but currently
the Boeing V-22 Osprey is the sole realization to be in production. The Elytron
family of aircraft is designed to provide the vertical take-off and landing
capability of helicopters combined with the speed and efficiency advantages of
fixed wing aircraft. Elytron’s solution provides greater
safety, speed, and simplicity of operation over any existing class of vertical
take-off aircraft which makes it ideally suited for various uses, such as
emergency medical services, search and rescue, air taxi, and oil exploration.
The concept for the Elytron design has evolved over a 10-year
period during which Elytron Aircraft LLC experimented with
several quarter-scale convertiplanes, as well as full-size airframe modeling,
extended flight simulations, and CFD simulations. The popular Verticopter
flying-wing design with in-wing propulsion was the most successful of these
prototypes but still had aerodynamic limitations. In 2012, Elytron
Aircraft LLC invented a new and optimized wing configuration that
addressed all of the earlier design shortcomings.
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