Active Landing Gear™ for Advanced Air Mobility: Delivering a Safe, Simple and Virtually Silent Aircraft without the Runway

Metro Hop is building a new family of aircraft developed for Advanced Air Mobility. These winged aircraft fly fast with substantial payloads yet operate nearly silently out of small spaces. Metro Hop can achieve this because of its patent pending Active Landing Gear™. The unique landing gear means that Metro Hop aircraft can handle the vast majority of VTOL missions with superior performance. Metro Hop is teaming with Auburn University’s Vehicle Systems, Dynamics, and Design Lab (VSDDL) in this Phase I project to model and validate the design of the Active Landing Gear. The University will use its MADCASP software system to model the gear under various conditions during the takeoff and landing phases of flight. At the completion of Phase I, Metro Hop will move forward with construction of a fully operational landing gear set and begin dynamic landing-drop and taxi testing.