New eVTOL design combines Cyclo Tech and yachting world demand

At the Mona­co Yacht Show, Klis­sarov Design, an inde­pen­dent vehi­cle design stu­dio based in the French Riv­iera revealed Acro, a ‘first of its kind’ eVTOL con­cept vehi­cle aimed at the yacht­ing world.

Aim­ing to ful­fil the boom­ing demand for new expe­ri­ences and adven­tures asso­ci­at­ed with yacht­ing, and based upon the rapid tech­no­log­i­cal devel­op­ment in the eVTOL sec­tor, Acro is an ultra­light recre­ation­al eVTOL con­cept vehi­cle pro­vid­ing the ulti­mate 3D flight joy expe­ri­ence; aer­o­bat­ic, fun and emo­tion­al. The strat­e­gy is to entice the upcom­ing gen­er­a­tion of yacht users by pro­vid­ing an emo­tion­al­ly bind­ing expe­ri­ence.

The vehicle’s propul­sion sys­tem is based on a ‘cut­ting edge’ cycloidal rotor tech­nol­o­gy, which allows for full 360° thrust vec­tor­ing, excep­tion­al manoeu­vra­bil­i­ty and sta­bil­i­ty.

This new breed of air­craft will not only pro­vide flight enjoy­ment and safe­ty above the water but also the abil­i­ty to land on yachts in almost any sea/weather con­di­tion. The very low noise pol­lu­tion, elec­tri­cal propul­sion sys­tem and com­pact form fac­tor will not require the need for a tra­di­tion­al heli­pad.

Vehi­cle fea­tures:

• Emer­gency bal­lis­tic para­chute at the top
• 3D print­ed heat sink com­pos­ing the struc­tur­al air­frame
• Struc­tur­al har­ness retains pilot & increas­es air­frame struc­tur­al integri­ty
• Hel­met­less oper­a­tion
• Dual joy­stick oper­a­tion, no ped­als required
• Dual side-screens HMI, for enhanced envi­ron­ment vis­i­bil­i­ty
• Tilt­ing struc­tur­al poly­car­bon­ate canopy inte­grat­ing joy­sticks and screens
• Seam­less front access
• Mouled seat shape for com­fort and reten­tion
• Instant con­trol of mag­ni­tude and ori­en­ta­tion of the omni­di­rec­tion­al thrust
• Full 3D aer­o­bat­ic manoeu­vra­bil­i­ty
• Vari­able flight position/angle
• Flight modes: Angle mode, Hori­zon mode, Acro mode (AI assist­ed)
• Inte­grat­ed ‘dock-in’ charg­ing at bot­tom of air­craft

Vehi­cle mass break­down: The max­i­mum take-off weight equals the over­all hov­er thrust at around 62% of the max­i­mum over­all thrust that each cycloro­tor can pro­vide.

The propul­sion sys­tem is based on an evolved and opti­mised Cyclo Tech CR-60 cycloro­tor, a set­up that allows redun­dan­cy for up to two simul­ta­ne­ous engine loss­es while the vehi­cle is still able to hov­er and land safe­ly.

Emmanuel Klis­sarov leads an inde­pen­dent vehi­cle design stu­dio, based in the French Riv­iera, devel­op­ing Icon­ic Vehi­cle Design on Land, Air & Sea. Dur­ing the last 15 years he has helped shape the design of vehi­cles for a range of inter­na­tion­al brands such as Renault and Mer­cedes-Benz.

Mas­ter­ing cut­ting edge design tools such as Dig­i­tal sketch­ing & ren­der­ing, VR Sketch­ing & mod­el­ling, 3D hard sur­face mod­el­ling, ren­der­ing and ani­ma­tion, he brings auto­mo­tive design to projects in mobil­i­ty design.