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HS-Drone - An Epoch of Serial Innovation:
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The serial innovation includes:

  Lifting Body Technology - A recognized technology, but sorely underused.
  Front Tiltwing - A passive transition device from VTOL to cruising (adds to lifting body).
  Gen-4 Prototype - The front tiltwing is TRL 4; VIDEOS tab shows flights.
  Transformer Drone - Wow! That front tiltwing can provide safety redundancy!
  SD-HD Motor - Rethinking electric motor technology can reduce size by >50%. 

​  See pdf-file brochure, below image, and hs-drone.com for additional information.  (Published on 4/29/2020).
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Terretrans web site - This Terretrans website documents early (2017-2018) applications of advanced lifting body technology to a land-based flying guider transit system (the site is also a place fore carry-over content from hs-drone.com).  ​The starting point for the breakthrough is the breakthrough was the development of a more-useful and fundamentally-correct flight theory. The resulting heuristics resulted in the Terretrane vehicle design.  The same technology was applied to Terratrans and now HS-Drone.  The following brochure summarizes the technology.  ​

Terretrane - Both high lift-drag ratios and a narrow vehicle (narrow-to-no wingspan) are necessary for overhead tethered-gliders to be cost effective.  The prototype to the right identifies an optimal configuration.  The allowed US Patent on this vehicle is on engaging a conductive cable as the reactive component of a linear motor to pull Terretrane.

Terretrans - The need for Terretrane to advance the technology led to the realization that most aircraft do not effectively use Lift-Body fuselage technology.  Among the advantages brought with lifting body technology are higher L:D, better fuel economy, and shorter takeoff distances.  The Terretrans vehicle is designed for very-short takeoff distances as a new market.

HS-Drone - Although shorter takeoff distances is an advantage, the real advantage lies in vertical takeoff.  A new web site is dedicated to this HS-Drone (hs-drone.com) technology.

Homeland Technologies Research and Development

Contact

Galen J. Suppes, PhD, PE

Email:  suppesg@mediacombb.net

mailto:suppesg@mediacombb.net