Watch Video: Skyportz Announces “Fourth Vertiport Fundraise, Finance Research into Downwash/Outwash mitigation”

Aus­tralian-based Sky­portz announced this week, it has launched a USD1.5 mil­lion fundraise to fur­ther devel­op the design and lock-in patent pro­tec­tions of its ver­ti­pad design, reports a press release.

Sky­portz has pro­vi­sion­al­ly patent­ed ver­ti­pad solu­tion fea­tures for over a dozen inno­va­tions. A pri­ma­ry one being the alle­vi­at­ing of down­wash and out­wash, a dif­fi­cul­ty recog­nised by the U.S FAA Engi­neer­ing Brief 105A. 

The com­pa­ny believes the require­ment for a safe­ty zone around ver­ti­pads due to major air tur­bu­lence could make the cap­i­tal costs to build a ver­ti­port net­work unsus­tain­able in urban areas.

The patent has been devel­oped with assis­tance from the Mel­bourne Swin­burne Uni­ver­si­ty and the design won a Blue Sky Inno­va­tion Award at the Aval­on Inter­na­tion­al Air­show in Aus­tralia ear­li­er this year.

Clem New­ton-Brown, Founder and CEO of Sky­portz, com­ment­ed, “With tens of bil­lions of dol­lars invest­ed over the last five years and the fron­trun­ners close to cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, there is a grow­ing real­i­sa­tion that the dream of avi­a­tion on demand can nev­er be ful­filled with­out a big net­work of new land­ing sites, known as ver­ti­ports.”

He con­tin­ued, “There­fore, investors in the eVTOL now need to dou­ble down to solve the prob­lem of where these new air­craft can pick up pas­sen­gers. Exist­ing air­ports and heli­pads offer an evo­lu­tion from the heli­copter indus­try. This not the rev­o­lu­tion investors have been promised.”

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Pro­fes­sor Justin Leon­ti­ni of Swin­burne Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy, added, “The Sky­portz ver­ti­pad could deplete pow­er up to two and a half times faster than if an air taxi were to use a flat con­crete land­ing sur­face.”

Funds raised will be main­ly used to fur­ther the Swin­burne research’s while engag­ing Dr Richard Brown, from the UK’s Sophro­dyne Aero­space. Sky­portz plans to ini­tial­ly make its patent IP avail­able free of charge to ver­ti­port test beds in Aus­tralia and lat­er in all emerg­ing glob­al mar­kets.

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