Horizon Aircraft Aims “to Attract Military Interest for Cavorite X7”

Cana­di­an-based Hori­zon Air­craft believes the fan-in-wing tech­nol­o­gy used by its hybrid-elec­tric sys­tem eVTOL, the Cavorite X7, which recharges the bat­tery array in-flight and post-flight, while also pro­vid­ing sig­nif­i­cant sys­tem redun­dan­cy, is ide­al for mil­i­tary avi­a­tion oper­a­tions that require flex­i­bil­i­ty, reduced noise sig­na­ture, speed and access, reports a press release.

Bran­don Robin­son, CEO of Hori­zon Air­craft, point­ed out, “The X7’s robust tech­nol­o­gy of fan-in-wing means its rotors are not only pro­tect­ed, but they also reduce the noise sig­na­ture over an open rotor design, two fea­tures that should appeal great­ly to the mil­i­tary.”

The com­pa­ny believes there are three main mil­i­tary roles the Cavorite X7 could be used for:-

: Med­ical Evac­u­a­tion - The abil­i­ty to move a casu­al­ty to a pri­ma­ry point of care with­in the ‘gold­en hour’ is vital. There­fore, speed is essen­tial. For exam­ple, the MV-22 has saved many lives and the X7 could do the same, yet would use few­er mil­i­tary resources being a small­er air­craft, even though prop­er­ly-sized for casu­al­ties and med­ical per­son­nel.

: Insertion/Extraction - While the X7 has capac­i­ty for six pas­sen­gers, it is able to car­ry four pas­sen­gers ful­ly equipped for mil­i­tary use. This is the ‘stan­dard make-up’ of a recon­nais­sance or spe­cial oper­a­tor team. Cou­pled with the sig­nif­i­cant noise reduc­tion over open rotor air­craft, it makes the air­craft ide­al for covert or dis­crete oper­a­tions.

: ISR (Intel­li­gence Sur­veil­lance and Recon­nais­sance) - With the USMC adage of ‘every plat­form a sen­sor’, the X7 as a tur­bo­prop air­craft has the pow­er (est. 100kW) to sup­port mul­ti­ple sen­sors to pro­vide over­watch for the ‘warfight­er’. It can loi­ter in ‘wings-closed’ mode for a sig­nif­i­cant amount of time.

Phil Kel­ly, Senior VP of Hori­zon Busi­ness Devel­op­ment, remarked, “The Cavorite X7 is the air­craft com­man­dos have been wait­ing for. A low acoustic sig­na­ture, long-range, high-speed inser­tion air­craft right-sized for dis­crete com­man­do mis­sions while also capa­ble of air porta­bil­i­ty and ship borne oper­a­tions with the wing fold.” 

He con­tin­ued, “It is afford­able, main­tain­able and less expen­sive to oper­ate which will allow even mod­est mil­i­tary bud­gets to get real val­ue for mon­ey and gov­ern­ments to get real return on invest­ment. Used in the ISR role it can host air­borne radars and oth­er pay­loads that have sig­nif­i­cant pow­er demand. It is a bril­liant design that has real growth poten­tial.”

Robin­son added, “Mil­i­tary bud­gets are increas­ing at a time when there is a grow­ing focus on how to enhance avi­a­tion capa­bil­i­ties, while reduc­ing envi­ron­men­tal impact. As the eVTOL sec­tor rapid­ly evolves, it will play a grow­ing role in sup­port­ing mil­i­tary oper­a­tions.”

Bran­don Robin­son, Phil Kel­ly

Hori­zon Aircraft’s Cavorite X7 is to have a gross weight of around 5,500 lbs with a pro­ject­ed use­ful load of 1,500 lbs. With an esti­mat­ed max­i­mum speed of 250 miles per hour and an aver­age range of over 500 miles with fuel reserves. 

The Com­pa­ny believes its pro­posed air­craft would also be attrac­tive for Region­al Air Mobil­i­ty, mov­ing peo­ple and car­go 50 to 500 miles. Hori­zon con­tin­ues to test its 50 per­cent-scale air­craft that it believes will reduce tech­ni­cal risk mov­ing for­ward as it con­tin­ues to devel­op a full-scale craft. 

Mean­while, the com­pa­ny is dis­play­ing its X7 at the Japan Inter­na­tion­al Aero­space Exhi­bi­tion (JA2024)  locat­ed in Tokyo at the Tokyo Big Site, between Octo­ber 16th and 19th.

The air­craft is on-show a the Cana­di­an Pavil­ion in the West Exhi­bi­tion Hall. Mem­bers of the com­pa­ny will be on-hand to answer ques­tions and dis­cuss the Cavorite X7.

Poten­tial investors inter­est­ed in sched­ul­ing a meet­ing can go to this link:-

HorizonAircraft@mzgroup.us

JA2024 is Japan’s largest gen­er­al aero­space exhi­bi­tion, fea­tur­ing dis­plays from major inter­na­tion­al com­pa­nies, gov­ern­ment agen­cies, embassy offi­cials, and oth­er indus­try con­stituents, cov­er­ing a wide range of aero­space relat­ed indus­tries. 

To learn more about the exhi­bi­tion, please click below:-

https://www.japanaerospace.jp/en/index.html

For more infor­ma­tion

www.horizonaircraft.com

(Top image: Cavorite X7)

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