AAE Products
AAE has designed a fully scalable family of fixed wing vertical takeoff and landing aircraft and has built a 55 lb., 360 lb. and 3,000 lb. VTOL aircraft.
AAE has a highly innovative VTOL Operational System (OS). It is an integrated concept of a set of more than sixty (60) patented key enabling VTOL technologies, using augmented and vectored and direct thrust, that are powered by a single propulsion system, with cool, Low- Velocity-Specific-Thrust, producing static and dynamic thrust as well as blowing air over the upper and lower surface of the wings. Our OS achieves a lift coefficient of over 7.
Our family of fixed wing VTOL aircraft sizes range from a takeoff gross weight of 55 lbs. (10 lb. payload), 360 lbs. (100 lb. payload), 3,000 lbs. (1,000 lb. payload) 6,000 lb. (2,000 lb. payload) and 24,000 lbs. with a 5,000 lb. payload.
Their sizes are perfect to be operated off helidecks from small US Navy ships.
Scalable Fixed Wing Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) Operating System
The scalable fixed wing VTOL Operating System is used, from our 15 lbs. to 100,000 lbs. Gross Vertical Take Off and Landing Weight platforms. These technologies and integrated concepts, can be applied to already certified fixed wing aircraft, and are necessary for a transformational combination of aircraft high speed and runway independence, to develop the next generation of air mobility platforms.
20,000 lb. High Speed Vertical Take Off and Landing Fixed Wing Jet
• AAE’s set of Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) integrated key technologies allows any fixed wing aircraft to hover and execute a vertical takeoff and landing without a Wing Tilt.
• AAE’s key VTOL technologies and integrated concepts that can use either jet or propellor thrust.
• Key technologies can be scaled to different size aircraft and can even provide existing FAA certified standard aircraft with the ability to cruise at speeds from 200 to 600 Knots at relevant altitudes and hover in austere environments (near unprepared surfaces).
• Aircraft can be unmanned, optionally piloted or piloted.
American Aerospace Engineering’s Vertical Take Off and Landing technology is disruptive, radical and a multi-use scalable concept.
• AAE’s Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) key technologies allow a fixed wing aircraft to hover and execute a vertical takeoff and land without a wing rotation.
• AAE’s “No Moving Parts” VTOL Technology is an innovative approach that will enable revolutionary advances in futuristic VTOL flight.
• Since 2008, AAE has won multiple DoD VTOL UAS design contracts and in 2021 AAE was one of 11 companies selected from 270 to participate in the AFWERX HSVTOL Challenge. https://evtol.news/news/air-force-picks-11-companies-for-high-speed-vtol-program
• Technology and Concept Innovation: AAE has been researching, designing, and building large Fixed Wing VTOL concepts and active high lift systems since 2008. AAE’s fixed wing VTOL has a thrust turning efficiency of 92%, and for our High Speed VTOL, a vertical reaction Force of 18,000 lbs. is produced from 20,400 lbs. of thrust available and with NO horizontal force during VTOL operations. Typical helicopter has a Figure of Merit of 60%.
• Flight Test. Larger aircraft are optionally piloted, simplifying flight test as a piloted FAA experimental vehicle adopting a gradual “autonomous hand off” with the pilot at the controls.
Our Aircraft Capabilities
•First and foremost, our aircraft are runway-independent, with low distributed downwash, VTOL with fixed wing performance, that can take off from and land on Navy ships and will be able to land on either water or land.
•AAE’s Eversor family of aircraft are an all composite, multi-mission, armed, Fixed Wing, and the aircraft larger than 2,000 lbs. are optionally piloted.
•They are all-weather, stealth, organic asset, combat aircraft that are intended to perform a multitude of missions such as re-supply, air drop cargo, Combat Search and Rescue, medical evacuation, clandestine insertion and extraction and electronic surveillance.
•Floats for Sea Plane operations.
•Most posses air-to-air refueling capability, the cornerstone of the ability to self-deploy.
•They are all composite advanced material fuselage and wing structure, making it 42 % lighter in weight and just as strong as an aluminum fuselage and can be manufactured in shorter time.
•The aircraft are protected by a Kevlar skin in critical areas for ballistic tolerance.