There are electric motors for the retractable landing gear, retractable ducted wing covering (possibly some to open/close the canopy and gull-wing doors)
16 ducted fans for VTOL flight in wings with covers, 1 pusher propeller for forward flight. Ferry range (Extended range with no passengers or cargo): 625 miles (1,000 km).The company sees the Cavorite X5 aircraft being used for air taxi service, Emergency Medical Service (EMS), disaster relief and air cargo transportation. Then the company will go onto to producing a fully-made production aircraft. The company's first selling goal is to sell their hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft as an experimental amateur built aircraft in the North American market by 2024. The company foresees their investment will need to be in the $100 million dollar range before they could make the first sale of a production aircraft. The company has also stated their aircraft could be built as normal airplane with regular wings and will simply be a very modern sleek new aircraft for the consumer. The company sees the Cavorite X5 hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft as a normal airplane that's been augmented to provide additional layers of safety and additional operational flexibility. The company then plans on making a ½ sub-scale prototype in late 2020.
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Horizon Aircraft is working on a ⅙ sub-scale prototype to use to test its systems, software and for flight testing. Also, the aircraft can land conventionally, if there is not enough power in the battery pack for a vertical landing.
If the engine runs out of fuel or some type of mechanical failure occurs with the engine, there is is a battery pack which can continue to power all the electrical systems on the aircraft to land it safely. There are 16 ducted fans for the entire aircraft, 12 on the rear wings and four on the front canard wings. The ducted fans inside the wings is called a fan-in-wing system with patents-pending for the wing system. The aircraft has a forward sliding canopy for the pilot, gull wing doors for the passengers, a rear high wing and forward canard to extend the range of the aircraft and has tricycle retractable wheeled landing gear. For forward flight, the wings close over the fans and a the pusher propeller is used for forward flight. For VTOL flight, each wing splits open in two sections, to reveal ducted fans and for vertical flight. The aircraft is powered by a gas engine which makes the power for its electric motors for VTOL and forward flight. The Cavorite X5 is a sleek modern designed five passenger aircraft with a cruise speed of 215 mph (350 km/h) and has a range of 310 miles (500 km). Wells, which would cancel the effects of gravity and make a spaceship fly. Wells book, " The First Men in the Moon" Cavorite was the name a fictional metal, made up by H.G. The name of the aircraft was decided to be the Cavorite X5 and the name is taken directly from 1901 H.G. The company wanted to make a useful aircraft which could do the work of a helicopter but could be faster, more efficient and safer. The Horizon X3 was eventually shelved but it allowed the company to transition into making its new hybrid-electric VTOL called the Cavorite X5.Īs the eVTOL industry began to gain momentum, Horizon Aircraft decided to get into the game. For this type of system to work correctly, they designed a combustion engine which could be decoupled, so that batteries could take over to power the electric motor turning the propeller. The idea for the company's first hybrid-electric aircraft came about in 2008 when a client wanted a highly modified amphibious seaplane and Brian Robinson (Brandon's father) said how about building an entirely new seaplane? The company designed the Horizon X3 hybrid-electric seaplane that was made so if the aircraft ran out of gas (or the engine stopped working), an additional power source, a battery, could land the aircraft to safety. Horizon Aircraft is in the business of designing and building long-range hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft focusing on safety, practicality and operational flexibility. Horizon Aircraft, based in Canada, was co-founded in 2013 by Brandon Robinson, CEO and Jason O’Neill, COO.
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