SPECIFICATIONS
90 minute flight mission with 30 minute reserve for 1 or 2 pilots, two medics, and 1 or 2 patients
- Flight time: 90 minutes + 30 min reserve
- Speed: 125 knots (232 Km/h, 144 Mph)
- Useful weight (payload): 1530 lb
- Weight of the medical equipment: 500 lb
- Total weight: 7000 lb
- Number of medics: 2
- Number of pilots: 1 or 2
- Number of patients: 1 or 2, up to 400 lb total
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS
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TANDEM-ROTOR CONFIGURATION
The tandem-rotor configuration is one of the most successful helicopter designs created in the late 1940s. Since 1962 it was implemented for the CH-47 Chinook helicopter, which is still in production.
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ZERO COMPUTER AUTOMATION
Uniqopter does not require a computerized flight control system. It utilizes a traditional mechanical and manually operated flight control system. This simplifies the flight control system and makes the certification process simpler, faster and less expensive.
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IMPULSE NOISE REDUCTION RINGS
Each of the two horizontal rings have 3 functions: Impulse noise reduction significantly reducing the noise generated and projected in the horizontal direction from the propellers. Safety: reduce the accidental contact of people, animals or other objects with the propellers. Performance improvement: creation of the ducted fans.
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REACTION CONTROL SYSTEM (RCS)
Similarly to the 1981 McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II, Uniqopter creates RCS through its 6 manually controlled air jet valves. These valves are installed on the external surface of the safety rings to control the front/back and left/right movements of the aircraft. They also allow the yaw-on-the-spot (‘turn in the air’) maneuver.
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SMALLER LANDING ZONE FOOTPRINT
The smaller main blade diameter and the absence of the tail allow Uniqopter land on a parking lot taking only 4 parking spots.
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INCREASED GEOGRAPHICAL AREA OF THE BUSINESS OPERATION
The Uniqopter's smaller landing zone footprint and its noise reduction capability, greatly expanded areas of operations are possible.
MEDICAL SOLUTIONS
A common complaint of air ambulance operators is the size of the patient access doors. Uniqopter has addressed this issue with a wide backdoor access that eases the handling of standard or powered patient stretchers.
A spacious interior allows for convenient access to patients by medical personnel.
Two patients can be loaded side by side on a stretcher and a spine board.
There is a reinforced floor support for a bariatric stretcher and for the medical equipment permanently mounted on a stretcher.
The medical equipment is permanently mounted on a stretcher or relocated to the wall mounts.
The unique construction of the cabin floor prevents body fluids (blood, saliva, mucus and urine) from weeping to the other parts of the airframe.
There is a commercially available wide selection of aircraft certified patient monitors, ventilators, pumps, gassed or liquid oxygen.
MEDICAL SOLUTIONS
A common complaint of air ambulance operators is the size of the patient access doors. Uniqopter has addressed this issue with a wide backdoor access that eases the handling of standard or powered patient stretchers.
A spacious interior allows for convenient access to patients by medical personnel.
Two patients can be loaded side by side on a stretcher and a spine board.
There is a reinforced floor support for a bariatric stretcher and for the medical equipment permanently mounted on a stretcher.
The medical equipment is permanently mounted on a stretcher or relocated to the wall mounts.
The unique construction of the cabin floor prevents body fluids (blood, saliva, mucus and urine) from weeping to the other parts of the airframe.
There is a commercially available wide selection of aircraft certified patient monitors, ventilators, pumps, gassed or liquid oxygen.
MEDICAL SOLUTIONS
A common complaint of air ambulance operators is the size of the patient access doors. Uniqopter has addressed this issue with a wide backdoor access that eases the handling of standard or powered patient stretchers.
A spacious interior allows for convenient access to patients by medical personnel.
Two patients can be loaded side by side on a stretcher and a spine board.
There is a reinforced floor support for a bariatric stretcher and for the medical equipment permanently mounted on a stretcher.
The medical equipment is permanently mounted on a stretcher or relocated to the wall mounts.
The unique construction of the cabin floor prevents body fluids (blood, saliva, mucus and urine) from weeping to the other parts of the airframe.
There is a commercially available wide selection of aircraft certified patient monitors, ventilators, pumps, gassed or liquid oxygen.
ABOUT US
Uniqopter is a Canadian startup that is planning to design, manufacture and sell a hybrid eVTOL aircraft.
EUGENE PIK
CEO
RICHARD ABBOTT
CTO
TARAS LYSSENKO
Director, Government Relations and Business Development
OPEN SOURCE HARDWARE AIRCRAFT
We intend to give the technology away as we develop it. We will post all our blueprints and development documentation online, under Open Source and Open Source Hardware licenses. This will be the first attempt to use Open Source information at such a scale.
We are planning to go further and make all of the company’s operational systems Open Source, including:
- Engineering systems – document numbering, change and release control, configuration control
- Work orders, warehousing, scheduling
- Certification and compliance systems
- Manufacturing process specifications
- Human resource policies
- Quality system
Every aircraft startup company has to develop all of these systems. They are all regarded as proprietary by each company and as such they are all guarded and kept confidential. And they are all very similar. These systems are so similar that almost all aircraft companies could adopt a single standard for these systems as a baseline and make small modifications in house to meet their own specific needs.
DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS
In order to gain an understanding of the ideal air ambulance aviation platform we conducted a series of interviews with Canadian and U.S. based operators and university researchers. Additionally we had valuable design input from Ferno-Aviation, one of the largest EMS solutions providers. Our novel eVTOL design is based on traditional technologies. These technologies will allow for an ease of development and certification. This allows Uniqopter to be faster to market and less expensive when compared to other eVTOL programs.
THE BUSINESS
Uniqopter has an unconventional eVTOL business case, based on existing markets that can be realistically identified. This approach has brought us to the conclusion that we cannot guarantee ROI in a reasonable time, or at all. Data from the General Aviation Manufacturers Association indicates there are about 500 helicopters in the Uniqopter's category sold per year, worldwide. Gaining a profitable market share would be a monumental task due to manufacturing economies of scale.
Even if a potential investor wishes, we will not sprinkle pixie dust on our market analysis and tell fairy tales about being able to sell thousands of aircraft per year. We know that works, because we have witnessed plenty of other eVTOL companies doing that, but not us.
CONTACT US
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