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UK VTOL innovator launches new passenger aircraft

UK-based avi­a­tion start­up, ARC Aerosys­tems, has unveiled its new VTOL air­craft at the Air Finance Jour­nal event in Dublin, Ire­land, reports a press release. The ARC LINX P9 is one of a pro­posed line-up of VTOL air­craft.

It is designed to car­ry 9 pas­sen­gers as a cost-effec­tive, low-car­bon solu­tion to inter­ci­ty trav­el.  ARC has already suc­cess­ful­ly car­ried out test flights for its car­go mod­els, C‑150 and C‑600.

Using VTOL tech­nol­o­gy, the LINX P9 has the flex­i­bil­i­ty of a heli­copter, with the per­for­mance of a fixed-wing util­i­ty air­craft, designed to address the chal­leng­ing needs of region­al air mobil­i­ty.

The release says, “The LINX P9 is a full-com­pos­ite struc­ture air­craft, with two vari­ants of Hybrid Elec­tric and twin tur­bo-prop pow­er train both run­ning on SAF/ Hydro­gen in future, a high wing con­fig­u­ra­tion, and is unpres­surised and equipped with a retractable tri­cy­cle land­ing gear.”

It con­tin­ues, “It’s able to per­form a jump take-off and no-roll land­ing with­out the need of a run­way, mak­ing it a high­ly ver­sa­tile pas­sen­ger and car­go craft, fit for a wide range of use cas­es.”

Prof. John Field­ing and Seyed Mohseni at the Linx P9 Unveil­ing

ARC’s CEO, Seyed Mohseni, believes the LINX P9 could be the miss­ing link in achiev­ing Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM). He com­ment­ed, “It’s a very excit­ing design con­cept that is the ulti­mate solu­tion for the mar­ket, that is afford­able, safe and prac­ti­cal, whilst pro­vid­ing the right answer to the cur­rent envi­ron­men­tal con­cerns.”

The LINX P9 offers a 40 per­cent more cost-effec­tive alter­na­tive to heli­copters (based on the DARPA mod­el) and 30 per­cent increased range com­pared to sim­i­lar size ‘copters (based on the Roskam method) . ARC has already com­plet­ed a 100 per­cent scale test for its C‑150 craft and Mohseni is con­fi­dent the LINX P9 meets the needs of the mar­ket. 

He remarked, “Devel­op­ment of an air vehi­cle requires ded­i­ca­tion to under­stand clients’ needs in 5 to 50 years in the future, and define a road map of a time­ly cer­ti­fi­able tech­nol­o­gy to achieve solu­tions for those needs.”

ARC is present­ly look­ing for investors “to share in its vision” of a “sus­tain­able and time-effi­cient tech­nol­o­gy.”

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