by Ilan Gettgno and Israel Hayom Staff
Metro Skyways to launch design and five-year development of the CityHawk, a four-passenger, vertical takeoff and landing flying vehicle • CityHawk is based on the Cormorant, a military craft for ferrying wounded soldiers from the urban battlefield.
A computerized rendering of
the CityHawk in flight
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Metro Skyways, a subsidiary company of Israeli
company Urban Aeronautics based in Yavne, intends to launch the design
and development of a four-passenger, vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL)
flying car.
The company said development of the CityHawk
will take five years. The electric car will be based on Urban
Aeronautics' internal rotor, "Fancraft" technology.
CityHawk will at first be powered by jet fuel.
However, it will be possible to convert it to run on liquid hydrogen
fuel and also 700-bar compressed hydrogen. This depends on waiting for
the infrastructure and technology to mature. The vehicle may even employ
a system in which hydrogen is fed directly into a specially designed
turboshaft engine, eliminating the need for fuel cells or electric
motors.
The CityHawk is based on the Cormorant, a
military craft developed by Tactical Robotics to ferry wounded soldiers
from the urban battlefield. In the case of any airborne malfunction, all
CityHawks will be equipped with a standard rocket-deployed parachute to
bring them down safely.
The Cormorant has thus far performed over 200 test flights.
It has a capacity to transport two patients;
its length is 6.2 meters (20 feet), its width is 2.15 meters (7.05 feet)
without thrusters, and its height is 1.8 meters (5.9 feet) without
thrusters.
CityHawk's first public demonstration will take place at an air show shortly after completion of development.
Ilan Gettgno and Israel Hayom Staff
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=41819
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