Unique Aircraft Considered for Statewide Emergency Response
Jump Aero, a California-based developer and manufacturer of novel aerospace solutions, and the Utah Department of Transportation-Division of Aeronautics have signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) setting forth the two entities’ agreement to collaboratively examine the viability of providing flight-based first-responder operations across the whole of the Beehive State by dint of Jump Aero’s JA1 Pulse eVTOL aircraft.
Per the MOU’s provisions, Jump Aero and Utah will endeavor to determine how many of the former’s JA-1 Pulse personal (eVTOL) aircraft would be required to maintain useful emergency medical response times throughout the state, and the optimal means by which to structure collaboration between Jump Aero and Utah’s extant first-response organizations.
Resembling, more or less, a series of eight engine-nacelles stood on end around an occupant-compartment borrowed from a Bollywood Science-Fiction film, Jump Aero’s JA1 Pulse is single-passenger aircraft by which first-responders will travel, ostensibly, to accident-scenes at top-speeds in excess of 170-knots. The machine is large enough to carry a 330-pound payload over a 26-nautical-mile radius, yet small enough to be transported, unassembled, on a flatbed trailer and land on a two-lane street or conventional residential driveway.
Considered through the narrow lens of specifications, the JA1 Pulse is a biplane standing tail-sitter provisioned with simplified flight-controls augmented by adaptive Machine Learning (ML), full envelope protection, and run-time-assurance architecture. The contraption sports a Ballistic Parachute Recovery System (BPRS), and is powered by eight independent and cross-linked 11-kilowatt/hour batteries rechargeable via a single High-Voltage Direct-Current (HVDC) fast-recharging port.
The JA1 Pulse is capable of hovering at density altitudes as high as 9,514-feet, and maintaining all-azimuth hover in twenty-knot winds.
Jump Aero contends its JA1 Pulse eVTOL is well suited to providing emergency medical response services to rural and suburban areas not easily accessible by road-going vehicles.
Apparent utility and (advertised) solid performance notwithstanding, the JA1 Pulse is not intended to replace air-ambulance helicopters or conventional ambulance services. Rather, the eVTOL is designed to complement legacy emergency-response vehicles.
Utah is particularly well-suited to benefit from the JA-1 Pulse insofar as the state encompasses a multitude of remote communities and environs to which large numbers of accident-prone Californians and New Yorkers flock. Jump Aero posits its JA1 Pulse, by enabling skilled first-responders to fly directly to the scenes of emergencies, will save the lives of native Utahans and tourists alike.
Utah Department of Transportation Division of Aeronautics Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) manager Paul Damron stated: "We have been following Jump Aero's progress for a number of years and are excited to formalize a working relationship to bring this technology to Utah."
Jump Aero president and CEO Carl Dietrich remarked: “It is incredibly gratifying to now have an official way in which we can work with the State and their expert first responders to bring the JA-1 and its life saving potential to the people of Utah. We are looking forward to continuing to build a long-term relationship with Utah and to providing them with this advanced emergency response capability into the future."
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