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Lyte Aviation's SkyTruck could operate from KookieJar's vertiports — Lyte Aviation is evaluating how eVTOL aircraft like its SkyTruck freighter could use modular networks of vertiports like those being planned by KookieJar. (Image: Lyte)

By Charles Alcock • Managing Editor

December 20, 2023

Lyte and KookieJar Lay Plans For Cargo Delivery Vertiports

Ground infrastructure specialist KookieJar is partnering with eVTOL aircraft developer Lyte Aviation to explore how modular vertiports could support cargo deliveries. In addition to its planned 40-passenger, hybrid-electric LA-44 SkyBus vehicle, Lyte is developing a freighter version called the LA-44C SkyTruck that would have a payload of 4.5 tons (9,900 pounds).

Sweden-based KookieJar is working on a blueprint for scalable vertiports that could be affordably and flexibly installed across networks. The production process has been pioneered by its partner Stilfold applying what it calls “industrial origami” to use robotic arms to fold flat sheet metal over curves to form strong and sustainable structures with minimal parts.

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Lyte and KookieJar Lay Plans For Cargo Delivery Vertiports

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