Staged VTOL Aircraft System Rapid Aircraft Design Development Tool & Digital Twin

Talyn’s commercial solution is a staged, battery eVTOL vehicle system that completely decouples the vertical and horizontal phases of flight, allowing each phase to be performed at maximum efficiency. It has a carrier vehicle in a lift+cruise configuration which performs VTOL operations at the origin and destination, and an aerodynamically efficient airplane that can fly long distances at high speeds. By doing so, Talyn can achieve more than triple the range of any other battery eVTOL, a key differentiator. The carrier/cruise aircraft system takes off vertically, then transitions to forward flight until both vehicles are under fully wing-borne lift, and the vertical rotors are shut down. Then the lift vehicle releases the cruise aircraft, and they gently separate. The cruise vehicle then flies as an efficient winged aircraft to the destination area. Another carrier aircraft will perform a mid-air rendezvous with the cruise vehicle at the destination, where they then transition to a vertical descent.  As designed, it is a long range (300+ miles), battery eVTOL vehicle system with a 1000 lb+ payload. The Talyn carrier vehicle can be configured to accommodate passengers or cargo, allowing autonomous and runway independent intra-theatre movement of personnel or supplies to critical areas of need -  a capability that would greatly enhance Air Force  distributed operations. Talyn’s carrier vehicle can also accommodate a variety of sensor, communications, weapons, or computing payloads to serve broad mission sets. With inherently low acoustic and thermal signatures, this system brings immediate value to the warfighter. The Talyn Lift vehicle can also operate as a stand-alone vehicle, enabling VTOL operations for conventional fixed wing airframes to improve warfighter capability on a variety of new missions. Specific examples include enabling ISR or combat drones, starting at low masses of 100’s of pounds, up through Predators and Valkyrie UAS to operate without catapults or a runway by lifting them to altitude, transitioning to forward flight, releasing them for their mission, then recovering them using the Talyn Lift vehicle. This enables operations off non-aircraft carrier ships and runway free forward areas.