Aero-TV: Aergility - Heavy Lifting via Heavy Thinking | Aero-News Network
Aero-News Network
RSS icon RSS feed
podcast icon MP3 podcast
Subscribe Aero-News e-mail Newsletter Subscribe

Airborne Unlimited -- Most Recent Daily Episodes

Episode Date

Airborne-Monday

Airborne-Tuesday

Airborne-Wednesday Airborne-Thursday

Airborne-Friday

Airborne On YouTube

Airborne-Unlimited-06.23.25

Airborne-NextGen-06.24.25

AirborneUnlimited-06.25.25

Airborne-AffordableFlyers-06.26.25

AirborneUnlimited-06.27.25

Tue, Sep 13, 2022

Aero-TV: Aergility - Heavy Lifting via Heavy Thinking

Florida Based Company Develops Heavy Lift Cargo Drone

Aergility—the Florida-based company that develops and builds autonomous, long-range, high-payload, cargo-carrying, hybrid-electric, vertical takeoff and landing, unmanned aerial vehicles—has unveiled a prototype of its ATLIS UAV.

The vehicle’s long-range, heavy-lift capabilities are conducive to humanitarian, disaster-relief, military, and industrial missions conducted in areas where ground transportation is impossible, impractical, or flat-out dangerous.

At an empty weight of nine-hundred-pounds, a 15’ 4” longitudinal dimension, and a hefty, six-hundred-pound useful load, Atlis is a large UAV. Size, however, is among the lesser of Atlis’s distinctions. Engineers, aerodynamicists, and pilots are apt to be more impressed with Aergility’s patented, Managed Autorotation Technology, which enables Atlis to achieve transition-less flight from multi-rotor, vertical takeoff and landing to autogyro-like forward flight.

During vertical takeoff and landing, ATLIS’s battery-powered rotors behave like those of a conventional, multi-rotor drone. Once airborne, a diesel-burning, pusher, turboprop provides forward thrust. Thereafter, however, Atlis’s rotors go into a passive, autorotation mode (autogyro-style) and are managed by an onboard computer which controls the aircraft by varying individual rotor speeds. While in passive mode, the rotors regenerate the battery. Nifty, yes?

By dint of this clever syncretism of electrical, digital, gas-turbine, and aerodynamic technologies, Atlis can transport a five-hundred pound payload three-hundred miles at one-hundred miles-per-hour—a feat certain to raise eyebrows and interest among drone operators.

Aero-TV is a production of the Internationally syndicated Aero-News Network. Seen worldwide by hundreds of thousands of aviators and aviation adherents, ANN's Aero-TV has produced over 5000 aviation and feature programs, including nearly 2000 episodes of our daily aviation news program, AIRBORNE UNLIMITED, currently hosted by Holland Lee. Now in its third decade of operation, parent company Aero-News Network, has the most aggressive and intensive editorial profile of any aviation news organization and has published nearly a half-million news and feature stories since its inception -- having pioneered the online 24/7 aviation new-media model that so many have emulated.

©2022 Aero-News Network, Inc., ALL Rights Reserve

FMI: www.aero-news.net, www.youtube.com/aerotvnetwork, www.airbornetv.net, www.aergility.com

 


Advertisement

More News

NTSB Final Report: Douglas A-4K

Pilot Applied Full Aft Stick And Nose-Up Trim, But The Airplane Remained On The Runway Analysis: The pilot reported that a preflight inspection and flight control checks revealed n>[...]

ANN FAQ: Q&A 101

A Few Questions AND Answers To Help You Get MORE Out of ANN! 1) I forgot my password. How do I find it? 1) Easy... click here and give us your e-mail address--we'll send it to you >[...]

Classic Aero-TV: PBY Catalina--From Wartime to Double Sunrise to the Long Sunset

From 2022 (YouTube Edition): Before They’re All Gone... Humankind has been messing about in airplanes for almost 120-years. In that time, thousands of aircraft representing i>[...]

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (07.01.25): Advanced Air Mobility (AAM)

Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) A transportation system that transports people and property by air between two points in the NAS using aircraft with advanced technologies, including el>[...]

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (07.01.25)

Aero Linx: MQ-1B Predator The MQ-1B Predator is an armed, multi-mission, medium-altitude, long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft that is employed primarily as an intelligence-col>[...]

blog comments powered by Disqus



Advertisement

Advertisement

Podcasts

Advertisement

© 2007 - 2025 Web Development & Design by Pauli Systems, LC