An Incredible Enabling Technology
Aircraft innovation has been crippled by erroneous explanations
of how air flow creates lift. WE FIXED THAT PROBLEM!
WE FIXED THAT PROBLEM! The new and disruptive technology is about to trump air taxis, maglev, diesel semi-trucks, and most air travel.
A new ground effect flight transit ("GEFT") simultaneously increases energy efficiency and higher-speed capabilities of trucks, buses, vans, railcars, and most transit. Many approaches are able to reduce aerodynamic drag, GEFT technology reduces drag even more AND can eliminate rolling losses. This translates to less than about half the energy of the best alternatives.
With these extremely efficient vehicles, a new approach to railway scheduling (metro and inter-city) is poised to cut transit times and costs in half. This impacts people worldwide, not just those who will be able to afford air taxis. For the vast majority of routing, total transit times will be less than possible with vertiports and air taxis.
What were considered unattainable in 2023, now have paths of short timelines to realize, including: solar-powered trucks, solar-powered passenger aircraft, and trans-modal ground-effect vehicles cutting time and costs by 50% to 80%.
Eight visual abstracts of 2024 papers.
PATENTS, PAPERS, BOOKS:
PCT Application filed on 25-JUN-2024 provides a patent-pending status with additional details in -- BENCHMARKS -- and SUPPLEMENTS .
BOOK - The energy costs and time for a trip from downtown Washington D.C. to New York City can go from $13 and 3.5 hours to $2 and 1 hour, but these are only the beginning of the benefits. Three books are now available in this series:
- Fixing Airplane Science - If we would have only known LINK, see Chapters 1 & 2 (below).
- Fixing Airplane Science - Ground effect flight and The Flying Railcar LINK
- Fixing Airplane Science - Replacing erroneous analogies with science LINK
(Get the Kindle ebook, the paper copy does not have color figures.)
- Drones are reshaping military strategies on a weekly basis in the Ukraine war.
- NASA, The U.S. Air Force, Boeing, Northrup, and others have identified approaches to increase aircraft efficiency by more than 40%.
- Several of the PRIMES are testing prototypes for 24/7 solar aircraft referred to as HAPS.
- As solar modules' costs approach 1 ¢/kWh, costs above the clouds approach 0.5 ¢/kWh.
- Air transit is already the least-expensive for distant travel; it is improving toward lowest cost, fastest, and lowest carbon-footprint for most travel (see chart, lower left).
The Happenings and soon-to-be Happenings:
Those facts are only the beginning, the technology is poised for:
- Airliners with efficiency 100% more than today’s airliners .
- Vertical takeoff drones more than 4X the efficiency* of today’s quadcopters; these will make large airports and most of the massive highway and parking infrastructure obsolete.
- A single 24/7 High Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS) being able to replace over 200 cell towers and the array of satellites need to power those cell towers; these HAPS will disrupt the $1.7 trillion telecom industry.
Our Products
HS-Drone and HS-HAPS aircraft are our products (collectively, "HS-Series"). They benefit from a 4-year patent portfolio. When others were rushing to tweak existing technologies into quick solutions for quick dollars, we started with basics, advanced the science, and established heuristics to bring in transformative products.
Two companies have the license to operate within this patented space (in the U.S.):
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Email: gjsuppes@gmail.com ; Charlottesville, VA
* Example lift-drag ratios ("L/D") are: Quadcopters (L/D = 5), helicopters (7), 1-20 kg drones (8), general aviation (12), average airliner (15), and best airliners (17); projected are DAF-BWB (24), HS-Drone VTOL Series (28) and HS-HAPS Series (36). HS-drone have fuselages and are capable of routine takeoff and landing; whereas, HS-HAPS are 24/7 solar aircraft without contemporary fuselages. The ratio of HS-Drone VTOL’s L/D to the helicopter’s L/D is 28/7, or 4X (5.6X versus quadcopters).