Gold for Pivotal Helix as eVTOL company “Wins 2024 New York Product Design Awards”

U.S‑based Piv­otal, a lead­ing eVTOL Air­craft devel­op­er, announced last week the com­pa­ny had won Gold in the 2024 NY Prod­uct Design Awards, for its first pro­duc­tion air­craft called Helix, reports a press release. The jury’s deci­sion was based on the air­craft’s “ele­gant, intel­li­gent and sim­ple design that rede­fines per­son­al mobil­i­ty.”

The Helix is a fixed-wing air­craft built on Pivotal’s fourth-gen­er­a­tion eVTOL plat­form. It is trans­portable in a 16-foot trail­er and easy to assem­ble. As the company’s slo­gan says, “From stor­age to sky in 30 min­utes.”

https://nydesignawards.com/winner-info.php?id=2245

“Ken Karklin, CEO of Piv­otal, com­ment­ed, “We’re proud to win this award. Pivotal’s design phi­los­o­phy revolves around ele­gance, intel­li­gence and sim­plic­i­ty. Jump in and take off straight up into the sky.” 

The release states, “Each ele­ment of the Helix is metic­u­lous­ly designed to ensure effort­less con­trol and com­fort through­out the jour­ney. Auto­mat­ed fea­tures like land­ing assist increase the ease of oper­a­tion of these cloud-con­nect­ed vehi­cles.”

Thomas Brandt, spokesper­son of the Inter­na­tion­al Awards Asso­ciate (IAA), remarked, ”We are thrilled to once again recog­nise remark­able sub­mis­sions that raise the bar for excel­lence in design and out­stand­ing work at the NY Prod­uct Design Awards. Out of the myr­i­ad of com­peti­tors, Piv­otal stood out with a sub­mis­sion that cap­ti­vat­ed the jury’s atten­tion.”

The release con­tin­ues, “At the heart of this sin­gle-seat air­craft lies a robust fault-tol­er­ant design, bol­stered by triple mod­u­lar flight con­trol sys­tems. Based on Pivotal’s patent­ed aero-archi­tec­ture, the entire air­craft tilts for ver­ti­cal take­off and land­ing, rather than wing assem­blies or rotors rotat­ing to reori­ent thrust. The tilt air­craft design reduces weight and com­plex­i­ty, while elim­i­nat­ing mul­ti­ple points of fail­ure.”

Ken Karklin (Cred­it: Piv­otal)

Back­ground

Estab­lished in 2015, the Inter­na­tion­al Awards Asso­ciate (IAA) is a glob­al­ly recog­nised award man­age­ment ser­vices organ­i­sa­tion ded­i­cat­ed to ele­vat­ing cre­ative stan­dards and push­ing the bound­aries of inno­va­tion in the world of awards. 

With par­tic­i­pants from around the world, IAA embod­ies such val­ues as Inspire, Advance, Achieve, tak­en from its ini­tials, and is com­mit­ted to high­light­ing the best new emerg­ing com­pa­nies.

The jurors were 14 indus­try experts from 11 coun­tries and in pur­suit of impar­tial­i­ty, the blind judg­ing method was employed. This approach ensured that each entry was eval­u­at­ed inde­pen­dent­ly, with­out the influ­ence of oth­er sub­mis­sions. As a result, win­ners were select­ed sole­ly based on their own mer­its.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://pivotal.aero

nydesignawards.com

(Top image: Piv­otal Helix)

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