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What is an ORB?
An ORB (Omni Requirements Bus click to see etymology) is an aircraft that is not a helicopter, not an airplane, not a drone and definitely not a “flying car.” It is a new class of air vehicles that replace complex mechanical systems with advanced electrical systems to improve flight efficiency.
Phase 1 Objective:
Develop, acquire, and conduct manned flight test of an affordable ORB
While it will be years before ORBs are making regular flights across cities and between rural areas, we believe that Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) technology could begin providing safe and viable transportation TODAY!
Our Phase 1 Objective intends to prove the concept with a small budget executed by an unmatched team of professionals. This process will help create lessons and material for educating future ORB designers, testers, manufactures, owners, pilots, regulators and passengers of all ages.
Below are a few recently designed ORB prototypes
by leading innovators from around the world
Revolution
The world is on the brink of a revolution in aviation. Propulsion systems have defined shifts in aviation epochs from the first lighter-than-air vehicles, to the reciprocating engines driving the propeller age, to the jet age. Advances in electric propulsion systems, materials, and digital electronics are ushering in the next age of aviation, enabling radical new designs. Sci-Fi has become reality with many of the above prototypes conducting manned first flights in just the last the last few years.
Opportunity
Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) technology creates the potential to use air transportation without driving to congested and expensive airports. The mechanical efficiency of ORBs could decrease procurement and maintenance cost by 90%, making air travel viable for vast new uses by vast populations who currently cannot afford flying. Autonomous systems could increase safety allowing the masses to pilot their future.
Teaming
As with all new technologies, industry, academia, government, and the public have key roles. Strong STEM programs are necessary to ensure there is an engineering corps, business models are necessary to ensure industry can be profitable while providing affordable products to the public, regulation is required to establish safety norms, and acclimation to new technology is critical to create trust among the populous and the demand to realize the full potential of the technology.
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