CycloTech Presents: “The BlackBird Demonstrator!” 

Aus­tri­an-based CycloTech is intro­duc­ing a new fly­ing vehi­cle called “The Black­Bird Demon­stra­tor”, which fea­tures the com­pa­ny’s lat­est propul­sion sys­tem for any kind of manned or unmanned air­craft, although it is pri­mar­i­ly designed for fly­ing cars, reports a press release. The com­pa­ny says “It is devel­op­ing and using a tech­nol­o­gy that sets com­plete­ly new stan­dards in its appli­ca­tion.” 

Inno­v­a­tive Tech­nol­o­gy 

The com­pa­ny claims the CycloRo­tor tech­nol­o­gy is the only propul­sion sys­tem in avi­a­tion that can con­trol the thrust vec­tor in strength and direc­tion in a full 360° cir­cu­lar path. 

Supe­ri­or Manoeu­vra­bility 

Six 7th gen­er­a­tion CycloRo­tors enable ver­ti­cal take-off and land­ing, as well as pre­cise con­trol in all direc­tions, includ­ing par­al­lel park­ing and mid-air braking/deceleration. 

Max­i­mum Pas­sen­ger Com­fort 

The unique decou­pling of the flight path and air­craft ori­en­ta­tion ensures sta­bil­i­ty and a high lev­el of pas­sen­ger com­fort, even in chal­leng­ing con­di­tions. The first flight is planned for Q1 of 2025. 

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Hans-Georg Kin­sky, CEO of CycloTech, com­ment­ed, “We are the only com­pa­ny in the world cur­rent­ly work­ing on the com­mer­cial appli­ca­tion of CycloRo­tors as the main propul­sion sys­tem. With the Black­Bird, we are show­ing how this inno­v­a­tive tech­nol­o­gy will open up the mar­ket for fly­ing cars. We are posi­tion­ing our­selves as a sup­pli­er of dri­ve sys­tems for elec­tric flight.” 

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The Black­bird, with a max­i­mum take-off weight of 340 kg, is now in devel­op­ment and expect­ed to be com­plet­ed by the end of this year. It will build on the knowl­edge gained from over 800 suc­cess­ful flights of CycloTech’s first-gen­er­a­tion flight demon­stra­tor. 

Kin­sky con­tin­ued, “Safe­ty is of the utmost impor­tance in avi­a­tion. An engine fail­ure is a chal­lenge for all air­craft. That’s why at CycloTech we use at least six CycloRo­tors to ensure the air­craft can con­tin­ue to fly in a con­trolled man­ner in the event of an engine fail­ure.” 

“In addi­tion,” says the release, “The 360° thrust vec­tor con­trol enables the air­craft to brake and stop in mid-air, thus increas­ing con­trol and safe­ty, espe­cial­ly in busy air­space. The 2 CycloRo­tors in the lon­gi­tu­di­nal axis of the air­craft enable lat­er­al flight with­out bank­ing the air­craft and increased manoeu­vra­bil­i­ty.” 

It goes on, “CycloRo­tors enable the con­struc­tion of com­pact air­craft that are half the size of those with pro­pellers or rotors, which means that no spe­cial infra­struc­ture is required and that they can be more eas­i­ly inte­grat­ed into the cur­rent domes­tic envi­ron­ment.” 

The Black­Bird high­lights the capa­bil­i­ties of the 7th gen­er­a­tion CycloRo­tor, offer­ing pre­cise con­trol, ver­ti­cal take-off and land­ing and max­i­mum sta­bil­i­ty at dif­fer­ent pitch angles of up to 30 degrees while hov­er­ing, the demon­stra­tor is suit­able for a wide range of appli­ca­tions. 

Back­ground

CycloTech’s avi­a­tion propul­sion sys­tems are based on the Voith-Schnei­der-Prin­ci­ple. The com­pa­ny has devel­oped a unique 360° thrust vec­tor­ing CycloRo­tors which are elec­tri­cal­ly dri­ven, sus­tain­able and high­ly manoeu­vrable for the air mobil­i­ty demands of the 21st cen­tu­ry. 

This enables an easy tran­si­tion from hov­er to for­ward flight pro­files with gust con­trol and pre­ci­sion land­ing and “is ide­al for safe oper­a­tions in crowd­ed air­space and con­fined areas,”  says the com­pa­ny. 

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.cyclotech.at/

(Images: CycloTech)

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