Prasad Mover (concept design)
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Mover (concept design)
Hari Prasad
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
www.linkedin.com/in/haric99
Hari Prasad based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy is an advanced mobility designer with a Masters in Transportation and a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering. Prasad designs short and long distance passenger electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for advanced air mobility (AAM), underground logistics pod vehicles (and systems) and architectural mobility.
When designing, Prasad is looking to the future and asking the following types of questions. How can humans co-exist in the wild and still preserve the biodiversity of the forests? How can we make mobility inside large urban areas both more convenient and cleaner? Can we find resources from nature to make our vehicles more sustainable? Some of his answers includes making high-rise houses where parts of the houses are modular and mobile. He proposes that passenger eVTOL aircraft is used as the main source of travel within cities. He also recommends to build eVTOL aircraft out of sustainable material.
Mover short and long range passenger eVTOL concept design aircraft
The Lifter is short and long range passenger eVTOL concept design aircraft made for advanced air mobility (AAM). The aircraft can be flown by one pilot or using an artificial intelligent (AI) pilot and has one large helicopter type window in the front of the aircraft. The aircraft carries a passenger pod that can attach or detach from the main airframe. It is unknown Prasad plans to use this aircraft to move air cargo in specialized air cargo pods.
The cruise speed and other typical specifications have not been estimated by the designer. The aircraft has four electric ducted fans (EDFs), uses four electric motors and is powered by batteries. The four EDFs are at the ends of X shaped booms that are located in the rear of the aircraft. The aircraft is made from carbon fiber compost for a high strength to low weight ratio. The aircraft has an open undercarriage similar to the Erickson S-64 Air Crane heavy-lift helicopter. The maximum payload weight of the aircraft is unknown.
Safety features include redundancies of critical components in the sub-systems of the aircraft providing safety through redundancy. Having multiple redundant systems on any aircraft decreases having any single point of failure. The aircraft has no moving wing surfaces when transitioning from vertical to forward flight and the reverse which increases safety by reducing complexity.
Specifications:
- Aircraft type: Short and long-range passenger eVTOL concept design aircraft
- Piloting: 1 pilot
- Capacity: 1 passenger pod (the aircraft might be able to transport an air cargo pod as well)
- Cruise speed: Unknown
- Range: Short range
- Maximum payload weight: Unknown
- Propellers: 4 electric ducted fans (EDFs), at the ends of X shaped booms, the booms are located in the rear of the aircraft
- Electric motors: 4 electric motors
- Power source: Batteries
- Fuselage: Carbon fiber composite
- Windows: 1 front window for the pilot
- Landing gear: Unknown
Related Aircraft:
- Prasad Lifter (concept design)
- Prasad Mobula (concept design)
Resources:
Recent Pages
- United Aircraft Corp S-76 Atlas Transport (technology demonstrator)
- United Aircraft Corp Sukhoi S-76 Atlas Transport (prototype)
- UDX Research Airwolf (concept design)
- Subaru Air Mobility Concept (concept design)
- Auburn University TW-01 Minokawa (concept design)
- Auburn University LPC-03 Phoenix (concept design)
- Auburn University LPC-02 DUeVTOL (concept design)
- Auburn University LPC-01 Pushpak (concept design)
- Auburn University Hexa-Chakra Personal Air Vehicle (concept design)
- Prasad Mover (concept design)
