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| Projected Vehicle Descriptions |
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Emergency Response
VTOL Police & Urgent response vehicles will make the difference between life & death.
For the first time, emergency response vehicles will be safe enough to land in the middle of rush hour traffic on a sidewalk downtown, just feet away from buildings, traffic, and in close proximity to pedestrian bystanders under emergency situations.
Police versions would allow swift response from ground to Air Patrol within tight city limits and grid locked traffic congestion, maneuvering where no helicopter can go. |
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Two, and four passenger models for civilian and military applications include: Emergency Response, Police, Border Patrol, UN Observation, Air Taxi, Sky Limo, Air Ambulance, Air Fire Rescue, Coastal Rescue, Air Forest Services and National Parks VTOL Vehicles.
Eye Witness News will never be the same! |
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| Coast Guard rescue and patrol will be enhanced from our coastal waters to our bridges. |
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| If Ferraris had wings they would surely look like Roadable Aircraft’s 2004 design concept: Zephyr |
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| If Ferraris had wings they would surely look like Roadable Aircraft’s 2004 design concept: Zephyr |
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| Below is the RAI VTOL Alta still under consideration for it’s radical “Hyper-lift extended air vane” technology and creates laminar airflow patterns that could prove to accelerate lift under certain conditions. |
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| Elegant lines define a work of art that defies gravity, literally taking off and landing with greater safety and more convenience than a helicopter. |
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Many Designs… a configuration that is patented and works… in pursuit of one goal.
Personal VTOL Transportation will take off soon
RAI VTOL Cruiser (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) FLYING CAR will be the ultimate form of personal transportation very early in the twenty-first century, with a @ delivery date early 2010s. The vehicle will have the ability to fly at 150 mph+ at 15,000 feet.
The VTOL Cruisers are able to ascend and descend vertically in the air like a helicopter, be landed on small-designated areas such as heli-pads, fields, rooftops or backyards, and drive on any road as a street-legal vehicle. It can also be parked in your garage to avoid both the inconvenience and hangar fees of airports. |
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| Although RAI will ultimately help reduce the ground congestion, the illustration above would never be legal due to extreme forced air similar to a helicopter’s potential to disturb dust and stones. However, without the inherent dangers of long exposed propellers, we can go where no helicopter or vehicle of any kind is able to go. Roadable Aircraft’s 16 propellers are completely enclosed with a ducted fan spinning many times faster than a helicopter’s propellers allowing quick light responsiveness and control. |
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| Projected Unmanned (UAV) Descriptions The following models are under consideration: |
• RAI VTOL UAV Earth Transport “ET” Based on Hiller’s Flying Platform, the payload platform, @ 6 feet-0” is in the center of the vehicle atop the engine and two counter-rotating fans. The two fans are enclosedin an air-duct environment to increase their efficiency and to protect them from possible side impact.
• RAI VTOL UAV“Airlift” is a new concept. The width of the vehicle is 8’-0”. The payload is located in front of the vehicle, rather than above the rotors. This configuration keeps the blade area clear for unobstructed air intake. The engines and batteries are located in the rear of the vehicle, to counter balance weight.
• RAI VTOL UAV “Sky King” or “Flying Fork Lift” version is based on a military concept called the “Air Jeep”. It has heavy lift capacity with duct sizes reaching 16’-0”. It is configured with two ducted fan sections. One section is in front of the payload platform and one in the rear. Each section consists of one rotor. The front rotor spins clockwise, the rear rotor counterclockwise to eliminate the torque produced by each rotor. The two engines are located centrally on top of each rotor. |
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| Roadable Aircraft Int. MEDI is a remote controlled VTOL UAV and can deliver medics & supplies as well as providing dual stretcher evacuation. |
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| Emergency Response |
| For the first time, emergency response vehicles will be safe enough to land in the middle of rush hour traffic on a sidewalk downtown, just feet away from buildings, traffic, and in close proximity to pedestrian bystanders. |
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| Models for emergency response can be applied to: |
• Police Surveillance
• Robotic Rescue
• Border Patrol
• Air Ambulance
• Coastal Rescue
• Air Forest Service
• National Park VTOL vehicles
• Eyewitness News VTOL vehicles
• Air Shuttles
• Police Surveillance
• Border Patrol
• Air Ambulance
• Air Forest Service
• Eyewitness News
• Air Pollution / Industrial Monitoring
• Weapons Inspection
• Bridge, Dam & Infrastructure Inspection & Repair
• Robotic Disarming of Explosives
• Toxic & Hazardous Chemical Air Sampling
• National Railroad system Monitoring
• Robotic Surgery (See projected details below) |
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The described remote controlled un-manned air vehicle has been developed under a joint Roadable Aircraft (RAI) and US Navy CRADA Cooperative Research and development agreement completed in 2004 at the NAWCWD Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division Point Mugu, California. Roadable Aircraft was one of only 2 private companies ever to have a presence at NAWCWD
This configuration is the result of 2 previous prototypes and 16 years of research and development. The first prototype was based on the Hiller Platform and won the Best Invention at the Discovery Channel Invention Convention in San Francisco 1993. Tethered flight tests and data led to the 2nd proto type co-developed under the CRADA. Several pre flight tests and data collected at Point Mugu Naval Base made pivotal changes that led to our current configuration which consists of the following;
RAI’s VTOL patented technology involves an 8 foot diameter ducted fan with 16 propellers. There are 8 propellers on the top and 8 propellers on the bottom, counter rotating within a completely enclosed carbon fiber ducted fan.
Current configurations use a Rolls Royce jet turbine producing 400 hp driving a drive shaft to the counter rotating propeller hub developing a 500 mph wing tip speed within the ducted fan.
The counter rotating action of the propellers have a gyroscopic benefit which self stabilizes the vehicle and has led to the US Navy head of Western Laboratory Consortium, Michael Sullivan to declare it as the most elegant solution for a close proximity vehicle capable of operating and landing near infrastructure i.e.; buildings, cars and trucks, vehicles, trees including safe pedestrian proximity and becoming the technology for a flying jeep or flying car.
RAI’s patented UAV VTOL technology was also developed under US Navy CRADA and was developed as a ¾ scale, 6 ft ducted fan using high tech electric motors specifically configured to test and research the flight control system in an interior RAI test facility. |
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| Projected RAI Robotics Applications utilizing UAV VTOL delivery systems include; |
- Border Patrol deployment of an array of UAV VTOL s with advanced observation optics utilizing infra red surveillance and motion detection and array oriented radar early warning and precision detection system that would be enhanced
by the array of UAVs spread out and giving a wide-range field of perception for pin point detection and or target
accuracy.
- Reconnaissance, detection and observation of radiation and chemical agents configured with real time particle analyzers and detection systems
- UN Observation and Peace keeping configured with advanced optics and telecommunications.
- Infrastructure inspection and surveillance using optical devices and x-ray enhanced structural analysis equipment
- RAI Terminator UAV configured for assault with mini-gun or electronic decoy system that could be launched from land, a truck or a Trident submarine silo as suggested by DARPA and US Navy CRADA 2003.
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| RAI Robotic Flight Surgeon RFS |
RAI has considered the development of a "trauma pod" surgical robot to operate on soldiers wounded away from home that would be configured for the VTOL UAV delivery systems. This same configuration could serve in forest fires, skyscraper emergencies and many civilian life and death situations.
Such systems can evacuate wounded soldiers under enemy fire and then operate on them, or if no threat is present to perform life and limb saving surgical procedures immediately upon remote controlled arrival.
The trauma victim would be placed in the pod where body scans, navigation of high intensity focused ultrasound applicator with an integrated three-dimensional ultrasound imaging system analysis, blood types, and medical conditions would be analyzed and surgical procedures performed. The pod would be an extension of the UAV VTOL vehicle and would also unfold as a complete medical supply and support clinic with bandages, medical instruments and plasma.
RAI is currently considering 2 Medical configurations. One for the delivery and evacuation of 2 trauma victims along with medical supplies, plasma, bandages to accompany 2 medics to a remote location under remote control from a control station via GPS and visual onboard cameras. The evacuation would be completed without the necessity of any onboard flight control input which would be optional and return with 4 patients under remote control.
The second Medical configuration RAI is considering adapting to the versatile UAV VTOL platform delivery system is a Robotic Flight Surgeon (RFS) employing the state of the art remote controlled robotic surgical systems and an array of cutting edge next generation medical advances. |
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| Benefits Robotic Surgery |
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Decreased blood loss and decreased likelihood of blood transfusion
- Improved visualization of the anatomy due to 3-D vision, increased magnification, and less blood loss
- Small incisions less than ½ an inch.
- Precise, fine surgical maneuvers guided by the surgeon
- Less pain after surgery, decreasing the need for pain medications
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| Faster recovery. Most patients are well enough to leave the hospital less than 24 hours after surgery and resume routine activities 1-2 weeks after surgery |
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| Roadable Aircraft is developing VTOL solutions for tomorrow. |
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