Middle East: Skyports Collaborates with Unified Aviation “to Accelerate Global Network Roll-Out”

UK-based Sky­ports is col­lab­o­rat­ing with Uni­fied Avi­a­tion (UA), an eVTOL and UAM spe­cial­ist based in the Mid­dle East, to pro­vide cost-effec­tive, ver­sa­tile infra­struc­ture for elec­tric air taxis, reports a press release. The part­ner­ship will sup­port the rapid glob­al roll-out of Sky­ports’ infra­struc­ture.

The col­lab­o­ra­tion lever­ages UA’s Mod­u­lar Envi­ron­men­tal­ly Sus­tain­able Heli­pads (MESH) advanced land­ing plat­forms and Sky­ports’ expe­ri­ence and exper­tise in ver­ti­port devel­op­ment, plan­ning, reg­u­la­tion and oper­a­tions. The agree­ment enables the UK-based com­pa­ny to deploy take-off and land­ing infra­struc­ture where and when need­ed, using pre­fab­ri­cat­ed, mod­u­lar, fast-build tech­nol­o­gy with inte­grat­ed pow­er, solar charg­ing, light­ing, safe­ty, drainage and fire sup­pres­sion fea­tures.

The inno­v­a­tive infra­struc­ture will be demon­strat­ed at Uni­fied Avi­a­tion’s Dubai South loca­tion, which is to dou­ble as an oper­a­tions staff train­ing facil­i­ty. The ver­ti­port tech­nol­o­gy will then be rolled out glob­al­ly for var­i­ous use cas­es, includ­ing ground, ele­vat­ed and float­ing options. 

The part­ner­ship also advances Sky­ports’ Agile Ver­ti­port Net­work (AVN) strat­e­gy, that envi­sions a var­ied and respon­sive infra­struc­ture net­work. The AVN will com­prise ver­ti­ports and land­ing sites tai­lored to envi­ron­men­tal, net­work and cus­tomer require­ments. 

Sky­ports’ prin­ci­pal struc­tures, which are to include facil­i­ties such as pas­sen­ger ter­mi­nal, charg­ing infra­struc­ture, and MRO, will be sit­u­at­ed at major hubs such as air­ports, shop­ping malls and metro sta­tions, or where oth­er­wise required. 

A Sky­ports Pro­posed Ver­ti­port in Dubai, UAE

The release explains, “These sites and the wider net­work will be aug­ment­ed by periph­er­al land­ing sites in sub­ur­ban, low­er through­put or short-term demand loca­tions, for which Sky­ports would deploy the MESH sys­tem.”  

Dun­can Walk­er, CEO of Sky­ports, com­ment­ed, “Scal­able, flex­i­ble and rapid­ly deploy­able ver­ti­port infra­struc­ture is crit­i­cal­ly impor­tant to accel­er­at­ing AAM ser­vice roll-out, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the ear­ly years of the indus­try. Our part­ner­ship with Uni­fied Avi­a­tion brings spe­cialised exper­tise in inte­grat­ed heli­port and ver­ti­port design and train­ing to reduce time to mar­ket and pro­vide cost-effec­tive, pre-cer­ti­fied land­ing sites.”

He con­tin­ued, “Our Agile Ver­ti­port Net­work strat­e­gy solves some of the com­plex con­sid­er­a­tions when devel­op­ing AAM net­works, pro­vid­ing the ver­ti­port solu­tions for any giv­en loca­tion.” 

Mark Trot­ter, MD of Uni­fied Avi­a­tion, added, “Our MESH sys­tem has been designed with the future in mind. It can cater for today’s heli­copters and the future AAM ecosys­tem, enabling hybrid oper­a­tions where need­ed. Our part­ner­ship with Sky­ports will help expand and fur­ther estab­lish this inno­v­a­tive sys­tem going for­ward. MESH is built with sus­tain­abil­i­ty in mind, using sus­tain­able mate­ri­als and the mod­u­lar nature cre­ates an excel­lent flex­i­ble and rapid­ly deploy­able solu­tion.” 

Mark Trot­ter

Back­ground 

The release goes on, “MESH is an inno­v­a­tive solu­tion that solves the chal­lenge of cre­at­ing mod­ern and safe land­ing sites for heli­copters and future eVTOLs in a low-impact envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly and sus­tain­able man­ner. MESH can be rapid­ly deployed for float­ing, sur­face, and ele­vat­ed heli­ports while exceed­ing the dura­bil­i­ty, main­tain­abil­i­ty and safe­ty of tra­di­tion­al con­crete based land­ing plat­forms. 

For more infor­ma­tion

www.skyports.net

https://www.unifiedaviation.net/about-us

(Top Image: Uni­fied Avi­a­tion’s MESH)

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