Orca eVTOL Aeronavă Medicală de Urgență by Soma Varga, Zsolt Koltai and Akos Matyus

Orca eVTOL Aeronavă Medicală de Urgență by Soma Varga, Zsolt Koltai and Akos Matyus is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award de Bronz in Aeronave Competition Category.

BronzAeronave· 2021

Orca eVTOL Aeronavă Medicală de Urgență

by Soma Varga, Zsolt Koltai and Akos Matyus

Client: Orca Aerospace

A' Design Award de Bronz Winner in Aeronave Category

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The Design

About Orca eVTOL Aeronavă Medicală de Urgență

Orca eVTOL este o aeronavă medicală de urgență cu capacitate de decolare și aterizare verticală electrică. Aeronava, pilotată de un singur pilot, transportă trei persoane și este construită din materiale compozite din fibră de carbon. Șapte motoare electrice independente, alimentate de baterii pe bază de litiu, asigură propulsia și sporesc siguranța. Anvergura aripilor este de 12,45 metri, iar lungimea este de 8,1 metri. Motoarele electrice pornesc în câteva secunde, în timp ce motoarele cu turbină necesită timp de încălzire. Zborul cu aripi permite o viteză de croazieră mai mare decât cea a girodinelor, astfel încât pacienții ajung mai repede la tratament.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronz

Orca eVTOL Aeronavă Medicală de Urgență a câștigat A' Design Award de Bronz, o recunoaștere extrem de prestigioasă acordată designurilor remarcabile care se disting prin creativitate, ingeniozitate și istețime. Câștigătorii Bronzului sunt artefacte din plin pricepute și izbitor de creative, care atestă experiența vastă, imaginația și resursele designerilor lor. Se așteaptă ca Orca eVTOL Aeronavă Medicală de Urgență să fie un obiect foarte apreciat, admirat și prețuit, remarcabil de profesionist și inovator. Acest design câștigător al A' Design Award de Bronz încorporează cele mai bune practici din artă, știință, design și tehnologie și este excelent prin atenția la detalii. Orca eVTOL Aeronavă Medicală de Urgență satisface splendid nevoile, atinge dorințele, vrăjește sentimentele și stârnește curiozitatea.

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