Orca eVTOL Aikin Jirgin Sama na Gaggawar Lafiya by Soma Varga, Zsolt Koltai and Akos Matyus

Orca eVTOL Aikin Jirgin Sama na Gaggawar Lafiya by Soma Varga, Zsolt Koltai and Akos Matyus is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Kyautar A' Design Award ta Tagulla in Jirgin Sama Competition Category.

TagullaJirgin Sama· 2021

Orca eVTOL Aikin Jirgin Sama na Gaggawar Lafiya

by Soma Varga, Zsolt Koltai and Akos Matyus

Client: Orca Aerospace

Kyautar A' Design Award ta Tagulla Winner in Jirgin Sama Category

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The Design

About Orca eVTOL Aikin Jirgin Sama na Gaggawar Lafiya

Orca eVTOL jirgin sama ne na gaggawar lafiya wanda ke da ikon tashi da saukowa a tsaye ta hanyar wutar lantarki. Jirgin, wanda matukin jirgi guda ke tukawa, yana dauke da mutane uku kuma an gina shi da kayan hada-hadar fiber na carbon. Injinan lantarki guda bakwai masu zaman kansu, wadanda batirin lithium ke bai wa karfi, suna samar da turawa tare da kara tsaro. Fadin fikafikan jirgin ya kai mita 12.45 tsawon jirgin kuma ya kai mita 8.1. Injinan lantarki suna fara aiki cikin dakiku kadan, yayin da injinan turbine ke bukatar lokacin dumama. Tashi da fikafikai yana ba da damar samun gudu mai sauri fiye da jirgin helikofta, wanda hakan ke sa marasa lafiya su isa wurin jinya cikin sauri.

The Recognition

About the Kyautar A' Design Award ta Tagulla

Zanen Orca eVTOL Aikin Jirgin Sama na Gaggawar Lafiya ya lashe Kyautar A' Design Award ta Tagulla, wata karramawa mai tsananin daraja da ake bai wa zane-zane na musamman waɗanda ke da ƙirƙira, basira da hikima. Waɗanda suka lashe kyautar Tagulla kayayyakin fasaha ne masu ƙwarewa da ƙirƙira mai ban mamaki waɗanda ke tabbatar da babban gogewa, tunani da dabarun masu zanensu. Ana sa ran zanen Orca eVTOL Aikin Jirgin Sama na Gaggawar Lafiya ya zama abu da ake girmamawa sosai, ake sha'awa da ƙauna, mai ƙwarewa da ƙirƙire-ƙirƙire. Wannan zane da ya lashe Kyautar A' Design Award ta Tagulla yana haɗa mafi kyawun ayyuka a fasaha, kimiyya, zane da fasahar zamani, kuma yana da kyau saboda kulawarsa ga cikakkun bayanai. Zanen Orca eVTOL Aikin Jirgin Sama na Gaggawar Lafiya yana biyan buƙatu da kyau, yana taɓa sha'awa, yana jan hankalin zukata kuma yana jawo sha'awar sani.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The Orca eVTOL is a vertical take-off and landing aerial vehicle equipped with electric propulsion. The single piloted Orca has been designed to compeete with current emergency rotorcraft by transporing patients at higher speed, lower operational cost and incerased safety due the installed 7 independent electric engines and advanced aerodynamic design. The possible range of the carbon composite aircraft with three person on board and with current battery technology is up to 120 km.
Dimensions & Packaging: The wingspan of the Orca is 12.45m, its length is 8.1m with an overall heigth of 2.4m.
Tags: VTOL, electric propulsion, emergency medical services, aircraft, battery propulsion
Production Technology: The proposed concept uses high performance carbon fibre composite materials, common in aerospace industry. The integrated electric motors have already a proven background in motorsport and run entirely on lithium-based batteries.
Design Challenge: The most challenging part of a VTOL design is to combine design methodology of fixed wing aircraft and rotorcraft, two different regimes of aviation that are well documented when investigated separately but is still full of unknown obstacles when treated as a single regime. Having to run engines effectively while hover and during levelled cruise flight introduced energy management challenges.
Research: The design of the Orca eVTOL started with setting the flight performance requirements such as minimum range, payload, and cruise flight speed. All these emerged from a typical flight profile for a rotorcraft used in emergency medical operations. After deriving the strict performance requirements, a major effort was made to design an easy to operate yet safe aircraft architecture. This resulted in a so called three-surface aircraft with top positioned main wing and with axisymmetric fuselage.
Inspiration: The concept of the Orca electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOL) was designed to challenge the current rotorcraft market used in the emergency medical services. With continuously advancing battery and electric engine technology, the concepts of eVTOLs became feasible. In the airborne medical services, introducing electric propulsion and winged aircraft concepts, the response time can be significantly reduced. All this to help avoid fatal outcomes of such situations.
Project Duration: The time required to design the Orca eVTOL from the first sketches to this stage covered six months. The design team has its headquarter in Pécs, Hungary.
Operation Flow: When alarming the rotorcraft medical services, the gas turbine engines of the rotorcraft have a warm-up time. This can mean up to 3 min before the take-off. With electric engines all this is reduced to seconds only. Due to the flight speed limits placed on the helicopter’s rotating blades, the wing borne flight of the Orca allows a higher maximum cruise speed. All these reduce the time form the emergency call until the treatment of the patients and the transfer flight back to the hospital.
Patents: Patented. Patent No.: 008215388-0001 issued by the European Union Intellectual Property Office. Patent holders: Soma Ádám Varga, Zsolt Koltai, Ákos Matyus.
Team Members: Soma Varga
Ákos Matyus
Zsolt Koltai