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The key objective with the ALTI Transition was to offer a highly capable, reliable and affordable civil use commercial VTOL (vertical take-off and land) aircraft, which one could actually purchase and use every day, unlike the majority of similar system, available only to military at high price points.
The Transition is made from the highest-grade materials, to the highest standards, using unique propitiatory techniques. A highly advanced aerodynamic design allows for low stall speeds, efficient cruise with very low drag, excellent stability and an incredibly low weight at only 5.6kg for the entire airframe.
The airframe is completely modular and can be rapidly deployed from in the case to in the air in under 10 minutes with only two operators required, this along with zero need for a runway or heavy and expensive catapult systems, provides a quicker and safer operation, anywhere, any time. The Transition is designed as a hybrid system allowing for a combination of multi-rotor flight and traditional fixed wing flight, providing the best of both aircraft types, the practicality of multi-rotor flight for take-off and landing, with the efficiency, range and endurance of a fixed wing aircraft. The incorporation of VTOL technology into the fixed wing system allows the Transition to take-off and land in confined spaces in a very short time offering a massive advantage over traditional systems as well as a lower impact and stress on the aircraft with long term use, usually associated with catapult launchers and hard and unpredictable parachute landings.
The Transition’s airframe is designed by a South African Civil Aviation Authority approved Aeronautical Design Organization, featuring a 3m dihedral wingspan, aerodynamic winglets and boom-mounted inverted U-shaped empennage, meticulously designed for efficient prolonged flights, offering complete ease of use. ALTI have developed various unique and proprietary features for the Transition, including but not limited to quick release wing latches, integrated internal fuel tank, aerofoil shaped landing gear, antennas build into the winglets and internal GPS, meaning zero drag induced by these systems, rapid deploy airframe for quick assembly and transport, highly optimized manufacturing and composite techniques along with many other ‘ALTI only’ features.
These features and design values allow for an incredibly low weight system with a maximum take-off weight of only 16kg. The payload bay can be tailored to fit and mount a wide range of cameras, sensors and other equipment, the system offers great flexibility without limiting the operator or mission scope. Designed to be aerodynamically stable and steady in low speed flight applications the ALTI Transition is designed to cruise at 20m/s. The airframe has a maximum VNE speed of 30m/s and a low stall speed of 13m/s and an incredible endurance of up to 7 hours.
The ALTI Transition is strictly for civil and commercial use applications.
The ALTI Transition truly offers the next generation in unmanned aircraft technology, today.
THE ALTI TRANSITION
KEY SPECIFICATIONS
The ALTI Transition offers incredible endurance of up to 7 hours with true VTOL capability. Capture the data you need anywhere, any time.
Fuel Fixed Wing Endurance: Up to 7 Hours
All Electric Endurance: Up to 2 Hours
Endurance may be more or less depending on payload, flight conditions etc.
'Wingspan: 3000mm
Length: 2300mm
Height: 525mm
MTOW 16kg
Both main and rear wings are removable, which significantly reduce the size for rapid deployment, transport and storage needs.
A modular 'rapid deploy' airframe allows setup and flying within a few short minutes, no bulky and complex launch and recovery hardware is required.
The wings, and tail booms are easily and quickly removed without any tools, and the entire system packs into a compact case, ready for transport with massive cost savings and less hands required.
We developed an advanced ALTI Autopilot specifically for the Transition VTOL aircraft, featuring high end components, GPS and sensors.
The ALTI Transition offers redundant flight control, with a split dual elevator, airspeed sensor along with our sophisticated code allowing for stall speed detection and many other fail safe features like weather veining, over-bank protection, velocity checks and more, the multi-rotor will instantly take control when required.
Please contact us for more details.
