Skyportz has released details of how the Australian start-up says its Aeroberm technology will solve vertiport development challenges, such as noise, hazardous downwash and outwash from eVTOL aircraft rotors, and lithium-ion battery fires. At presentations on May 5 to both the Vertical Flight Society Forum in the U.S. and the Rotortech show in Australia, the company released peer-reviewed research based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis of how the Aeroberm vertiport structure dissipates energy from rotorcraft.
According to Skyportz CEO Clem Newton-Brown, dangerous ground-level winds from rotor downwash and outwash are a major obstacle to the acceptance of vertiports and eVTOL operations in urban areas. He also maintained that other advanced air mobility infrastructure developers have not adequately addressed concerns around noise in communities and lithium-battery fires, which he says cannot be extinguished by standard firefighting systems.
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