www.vtol.org Mike Hirschberg, Executive Director AHS International The Vertical Flight Technical Society www.vtol.org Uber graphic April 2017 1
The global Vertical Flight Technical Society Founded in 1943 as the American Helicopter Society Everything from VTOL MAVs/UAS to helicopters and evtol to STOVL (everything vertical except rockets) Expands knowledge about vertical flight technology and promotes its application around the world Advances safety and acceptability Advocates for vertical flight R&D funding Helps educate and support today s and tomorrow s vertical flight engineers and leaders CFD of Joby S4, Aug 2015 VFF Scholarship Winners at AHS Forum 71, May 2015 2
The 20 th Century proved that vertical flight was possible with combustion engines Distributed Propulsion: ASTOVL/JAST/JSF/F-35B proved that the engine location could be decoupled from the center of gravity Mechanical complexity led to high failure rate and fatal accidents for a Wheel of Misfortune www.vtol.org/wheel 3
Transformative Vertical Flight Workshops held since 2014 Building community and developing industry roadmaps https://nari.arc.nasa.gov/wghome Uber joined in 2016 4th Workshop held in June 2017 in Denver, Colorado 5th Workshop planned for Jan 2018, San Francisco, California Presentations, videos and links at www.vtol.org/transformative Breaking down the barriers Technological Regulatory Environmental Economic Infrastructural Cultural Connect: www.facebook.com/electricvtol www.twitter.com/electricvtol www.evtol.news 4
Bold = known flying demonstrator or model 1. A³ Vahana 2. Airbus Helicopters CityAirbus 3. AirspaceX MOBi 4. Aurora Flight Sciences evtol 5. Bell Helicopter (unknown) 6. Carter/Mooney CarterCopter 7. Cartivator SkyDrive (Toyota) 8. DeLorean Aerospace DR-7 9. e-volo Volocopter VC200 / 2X 10. EHang 184 11. Italdesign-Airbus Pop.Up 12. Jetpack Aviation (unnamed) 13. Joby Aviation S4 14. Kitty Hawk Flyer 15. Lilium Jet 16. Neva Aerospace AirQuadOne 17. Pipistrel (unnamed) 18. Terrafugia TF-X 19. Workhorse SureFly 20. XTI Aircraft Trifan 600 21. Zee Aero Z-P1 Updates at www.evtol.news 5
Uber Elevate network Revealed at 3rd Workshop in Sept 2016 Elevate White Paper in Oct 2016 Elevate Summit in April 2017 Developing an Ecosystem Partnerships with cities, real estate companies, aircraft manufacturers, EV charger manufacturers, etc. Connecting innovators, investors, regulators, technical experts, media 6
Aquinea Volta (Microcopter MC1) June 2016 Tier 1 Engineering (Robinson R44) Sep 2016 Sikorsky Firefly (Schweizer S-300C) never flown Eliminate complex rotors Cyclic, collective, swashplate Transmissions, gearboxes, shafting, hydraulics, etc. Distributed Electric Propulsion Replace single complex system with multiple simple thrusters Get on a wing for efficiency Higher speed, longer range Environment Noise, noise, noise! Tailpipe emissions 7
8 www.vtol.org NASA Puffin Single-Seat Electric VTOL Study (2010) e-volo Volocopter VC1 Demonstrator (2010)
9 www.vtol.org NASA GL-10 Greased Lightning (2014 tethered, 2015 transition) e-volo Volocopter VC200 (2013 tethered - 2016 manned)
e-volo VC200 450 kg, all electric 18 electric propellers 54 kt (100 km/h) VC200 flew in 2016 2X to fly in 2017 e-volo VC200 and 2X Photos courtesy of e-volo GmbH Bruchsal, Germany 10
Full Scale XV-24A 5.9 t, hybrid electric 18 + 6 electric fans 3x 1 MW Generators 1 RR Liberty engine 6k shp (4.5 MW) 300 kt (555 km/h) First Flight 2018 Subscale Vehicle Demonstrator (SVD) 150 kg, all electric, 20% scale Graphics courtesy of Aurora Flight Sciences Manassas, Virginia, USA 11
Full Scale evtol concept 800 kg, all electric 8 VTOL electric props 1 pusher electric prop 97 kt (180 km/h) First Flight 2018 ¼-scale demonstrator 12.5 kg, all electric Graphics courtesy of Aurora Manassas, Virginia, USA 12
2-seat Eagle LiliumJet prototype 640 kg, all electric New 5-seat LiliumJet concept 2-seat Eagle LiliumJet prototype 36 electric fans 24 on wings 12 on canards 160 kt (300 km/h) Eagle first flight April 2017 Graphics courtesy of Lilium Aviation Garching, Germany 13
Vahana concept 725 kg, all electric 8 tilting electric props 95 kt (175 km/h) First Flight 2017 23%-scale Omega 3 demonstrator Graphics courtesy of A 3 Santa Clara, California, USA 14
Original 2-seat Joby S2 12 lift/cruise propellers + 4 cruise propellers All electric Current 4-seat Joby S4 6 lift/cruise propellers All electric Graphics courtesy of Joby Aviation Santa Cruz, California, USA 15
Terrafugia Transition AeroMobil 3.0 Please use: evtol aircraft electric VTOL Urban Air Taxi #electricvtol #NotAFlyingCar Graphics courtesy of Terrafugia, AeroMobil and AHS International 16
AHS leading effort with NASA and other technical organizations 5 th Transformative Vertical Flight Workshop in January Developing a Transformative Vertical Flight Roadmap Working on breaking the barriers Technological, regulatory, environmental, economic, infrastructural & cultural Uber Elevate Network/ecosystem is being established Partnerships with real estate companies, aircraft manufacturers, electric vehicle charger manufacturers and cities Significant funds being invested in electric VTOL (>>$100M) >20 companies developing electric and hybrid/electric VTOL aircraft The explosive interest in electric VTOL drones extended to manned aircraft 17
Electric VTOL News www.evtol.news www.vtol.org/electricvtol www.facebook.com/electricvtol www.twitter.com/electricvtol Uber Elevate white paper & Summit www.uber.com/elevate/whitepaper or www.vtol.org/uber Transformative VTOL www.vtol.org/transformative 18