Two former engineers who worked for more than 5 years at SpaceX in Hawthorne, California have founded Talyn Air, a Los Angeles-based company that aims to build and produce a new all-electric aircraft capable of travelling about 550 km with an average speed of 330 km/h.
The company was founded in 2019 by Jamie Gull, an aerospace engineer and Evan Mucasey, a mechanical engineer. Both of them hold private pilots and have previously worked on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon programs. Now they have both come together with a shared vision about the future of regional flights which they believe will be heavily reliant, if not completely, on eVTOL aircraft.
An eVTOL is an electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing type of aircraft that uses only electrical power for all its flight operations. This technology is currently one of the “hottest” markets in the world of aviation, thanks to advances in the field of electric propulsion. An eVOTL aircraft is currently being used as an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for deliveries and military use. In the future, these aircraft could essentially be used as an Urban Air Mobility (UAM) using it as an Air Taxi or for medical emergencies.
In the case of Talyn Air, the goal is to bring this technology to the areas of both civilian and military fields, due to its unique configuration. This aircraft consists of 2 stages. The first one serves to make the aircraft take-off and land vertically and will also allow it to gain enough speed to allow the actual aeroplane part to “detach” and continue the flight to the final destination. Once the aircraft is close to its destination, the procedure will be repeated but in reverse, with a vertical landing.
According to the company, the aircraft will be able to carry a payload of 1,000 lb (454 kg) for 350 miles (550 km) at an average speed of 205 mph (330 km/h). However, the propulsion system, depending on the needs and configurations required (whether military or civilian) could receive some modifications, even adopting hybrid propulsion.
According to Talyn Air, which has already raised $1.5 million in seed funding, the aircraft will be more economical than the eVTOLs of current competitors, since, with this staged technology, there will be no need to “carry” the propellers required for vertical takeoff during horizontal flight, greatly reducing drag and improving the aircraft’s overall efficiency.
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