Skyportz Offers Vertipad IP to U.S Companies “For No Fee to Support White House eVTOL Pilot Program”

Aus­tralian-based, Sky­portz, a lead­ing ver­ti­port research and devel­op­er com­pa­ny, has offered its ver­ti­pad IP — at no fee — to U.S com­pa­nies look­ing to exploit the Pres­i­dent Trump ini­tia­tive to boost and then dom­i­nate the glob­al elec­tric air taxi mar­ket, reports a press release.

The award-win­ning mod­u­lar ver­ti­pad patent address­es two of the stand­out issues for Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty in urban loca­tions: — 

: Ame­lio­ra­tion of downwash/outwash. 

: Fire sup­pres­sion.

Down/Outwash have been high­light­ed by the FAA at the begin­ning for this year in their Engi­neer­ing Brief 105A where the Amer­i­can air reg­u­la­tor indi­cat­ed that ver­ti­pads will need to have a wind safe­ty zone beyond the land­ing sur­face,” explains the release. “This safe­ty zone has only been defined as where the wind­speed exceeds 34.5 mph.”

It con­tin­ues, “With mul­ti­ple height set­tings for the FATO land­ing sur­face and sur­rounds and an adjustable blast screen, this new design will enable air­ports to adjust the set­tings for par­tic­u­lar air­craft types to max­imise the down­draft ame­lio­ra­tion fea­tures. Reduced wind speeds mean small­er foot­print require­ments for safe oper­a­tions, enabling mul­ti­ple pads side by side.”

Fire is anoth­er poten­tial haz­ard. 

The patent enables ver­ti­port oper­a­tors to extin­guish any bat­tery fire com­plete­ly  and quick­ly via full immer­sion in water from a pit below the ver­ti­pad. At present, the alter­na­tive is to wait until the bat­tery ther­mal run­away con­cludes which could leave an air­port shut down for a day or more.

Award-win­ning mod­u­lar ver­ti­pad patent

Clem New­ton-Brown, CEO of Sky­portz, com­ment­ed, “We are very keen to offer this patent­ed ver­ti­pad solu­tion to U.S com­pa­nies seek­ing to intro­duce elec­tric air taxis to their sites. There are some sig­nif­i­cant issues to address, and our patent solves the major issues in an afford­able prod­uct.”

Sky­portz opened a recent retail fundraise to sup­port fur­ther research and devel­op­ment, con­duct­ed by Swin­burne Uni­ver­si­ty and Sophro­dyne Aero­space, a leader in eVTOL down­wash and out­wash mod­el­ling.

https://www.birchal.com/company/skyportz

Dr Richard Brown from Sophro­dyne, remarked, “What impress­es me about Sky­portz is their will­ing­ness to engage with the sci­ence and to pro­ceed with their design through a prop­er sequence of sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly-val­i­dat­ed steps. This sets them apart and above their com­peti­tors and the trust I would place in their prod­uct.”

Dr Brown has been work­ing with indus­try bod­ies such as the FAA and CAA to mod­el the effects of down­wash from eVTOL air­craft such as  Joby and Archer.

New­ton-Brown added, “We intend to licence man­u­fac­tur­ing and dis­tri­b­u­tion of the ver­ti­pad into all glob­al mar­kets as they emerge, but for now we are excit­ed at the prospect of devel­op­ing our intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty in part­ner­ship with the USA.”

An inter­na­tion­al patent appli­ca­tion was filed on June 6th.

For more infor­ma­tion

www.skyportz.com

(Top image: Sky­portz)

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