
The modular vertipad patent incorporates devices under and around the landing pad to dissipate downwash.
Credit: Skyportz
Australian vertiport startup Skyportz has received a provisional patent for a vertipad design that ameliorates a potential issue with electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft–winds created by downwash and outwash from the multiple propellers. Aircraft developers are playing down the...
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