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| The HybriCraft™ family of vehicles has broad applications in two major markets: civilian and military. Civilian applications include many uses in the fields of safety, sports and recreation, commerce, and industry. Military uses include combat weapons, security, and support systems. HybriCraft can operate independently from surface conditions, especially with respect to terrain. This principal feature provides its broad utility. Although larger vehicles may be practical for some applications, the majority of proposed applications involve three- to four-meter diameter HybriCraft. Those less than three meters in diameter could serve parks, recreation, and sports markets.
HybriCraft’s speed and maneuverability over adverse terrain is inherent to all designs. Additionally, we can design all-weather models for use in restrictive climates. Ice, snow, and monsoonal rain, which would ground conventional aircraft and impede wheel- and track-driven ground vehicles, are home to the HybriCraft concept. Extreme weather, environmental damage from combat weapons, and results from natural disaster cause lengthy delays to material, equipment, and personnel transport. Some examples of impassible terrain an emergency team might encounter in a conventional vehicle include deep snowdrifts, flooded regions, swollen rivers, compromised bridges, dense floating debris in waterways, earthquake rubble, etc. These obstacles can be several feet high, or require navigation of significant slopes, making HybriCraft’s value in these applications obvious. With minimal navigation aid, the HybriCraft easily operates when natural phenomena sideline other vehicles. A four-meter HybriCraft operates above surface obstacles as high as two meters, and traverses slopes, performing effectively while operating in fog, heavy rain or snow, or in severe cold. CIVILIAN APPLICATIONS |
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| Sports and Recreation These areas offer many applications for HybriCraft over the full range of vehicle sizes. Among these uses are winter, water, and desert sports, hunting, fishing, sightseeing, and exploring. Agencies benefiting would include the federal government, state governments, private enterprises, and public consumers. |
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Public Safety Applications HybriCraft would enhance emergency response services in adverse terrain and sub-optimal surface conditions, including natural disasters, riots, auto and air accidents, harbors and marina accidents, etc. For example, emergency fire and rescue teams would benefit from employing HybriCraft at the site of a downed aircraft in snow, ice, water, swamp, etc. Public safety applications for HybriCraft include the federal government, such as Coast Guard and Border Patrol, as well as state and local governments, such as police and fire departments. |
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Potential federal agencies realizing the military HybriCraft system include the Army, Navy, Marine, and Air Force. Military uses include weapon systems, troop carriers, scouting vehicles, amphibious assault, anti-submarine warfare, patrol, search and destroy, close support combat, weapons platform, logistics, etc. Military security systems offer applications for base security, patrol, and military police operations. Support systems include search & rescue and logistics applications.
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A family of VTOL aircraft is possible also using HybriCraft technology, and design details would differ from “conventional” HybriCraft for this particular vehicle system class. Abundant potential uses for the HybriCraft family exist. Some applications constitute yet unidentified use, since the capability of this vehicle class is yet unknown extensively by potential users. Under-developed countries of the world may well find the HybriCraft an ideal form of transportation. One example considered includes Australia, where a dense “tumbleweed-type” brush grows to heights over one meter, and perpetually spreads across inland plains for thousands of square kilometers. |
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