CAFE EAS 2019 #7 - Bruno Mombrinie - Metro Hope: The eSTOL solution for Urban Air Mobility скачать в хорошем качестве

CAFE EAS 2019 #7 - Bruno Mombrinie - Metro Hope: The eSTOL solution for Urban Air Mobility

Bruno Mombrinie, Founder & CEO, Metro Hop EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES PANEL Bruno Mombrinie, a CAFE Foundation board member, gave a presentation on the Metro Hop, an eSTOL aircraft design for urban air mobility. Metro Hop features two electric propellers and motorized landing gear legs that are articulated to help the aircraft takeoff in short distances and land smoothly on 200-foot long runways. Mombrinie believes there is a large emerging market for piloted aircraft that can carry packages between warehouses as same day delivery becomes the norm. Long term, Mombrinie believes Metro Hop will be used to carry passengers between STOL skyports. He explained that that departure/arrival rate (DAR) multiplied by the turnaround transit time (TTT) will determine the Skyport Station Size (S3), which is a measure of the number of aircraft and passengers a facility can handle at one time. Mombrinie says that cruise speed is an important element for high-utilization UAM operations. “The size of an Urban Air Mobility fleet is determined by the demand during peak periods. It may not matter much to the average passenger if they get there in about 10 minutes versus about 15 minutes. But to the operator that means about 50% more planes are needed in the fleet. The faster the planes, the fewer planes are needed,” says Mombrinie. Biography Bruno Mombrinie is a board member of the CAFE Foundation and was the event manager for the NASA Green Flight Challenge, sponsored by Google in 2011. Bruno is the founder of Metro Hop. The Metro Hop plane is a STOL approach to the challenge of flying people and parcels quickly and affordably in greater metropolitan areas. At MIT Bruno helped build the Chrysalis Human Powered Airplane. Over 100 people were able to fly the aircraft. After college, Bruno founded AVEC Scientific, a surgical supply manufacturing company which he recently sold to Stryker Instruments. Bruno is a fan of the flow state, side projects, and making better stuff.