Ascendance Flight Technologies ATEA | Rob Vogelaar
Atea is an innovative aircraft meant to reduce the carbon footprint of the helicopter market and provide a sustainable and practical answer to link some destinations that are still hard to reach today.
tea is positioned on 3 main segments:
- Metropolitan trips between 20 and 200km, missions that are usually performed by helicopters where our eVTOL will provide an alternative to reduce CO2 emissions, cost and noise
- Regional link between places that are not well-connected today up to 400km. This is what Decentralized Aviation will look like in the future. There’s a lot of places today in need for better connections, due to natural obstacles like mountains or body of water but also due to the lack of infrastructures like highways, railway etc.
- City-to-City pairing on a regional scale. In Europe we have a really well-developed Railway system connecting major cities to one another but that’s not the case everywhere and while the major cities are well-connected, there are still a major need for quick, clean and efficient transportations outside of those few megacities.
The aircraft is designed to provide a wide range of missions such as passenger transportation, Emergency Medical Services, sightseeing, or surveillance and patrol. The entire aircraft has been designed in compliance with the requirements of EASA SC-VTOL regulations.
Atea will use a ‘lift + cruise’ configuration with two separate modular hybrid engines systems for vertical and horizontal flight. The highly unusual fan-in-wing system being developed inhouse by Ascendance consists of eight rotors integrated into two fixed wings and two horizontal propellers for level flight.
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