AT8000

Specifications:

Aircraft type

Long-range heavy-lift air cargo hydrogen fuel cell VTOL prototype aircraft

Piloting

Remote, autopilot or autonomous or a combination of these technologies

Capacity

Air cargo

Cruise speed (production aircraft)

Unknown

Range (production aircraft)

1,000 km (621 m)

Maximum takeoff weight (production aircraft)

4,000 kg (8,819 lb)

Propellers

24 propellers (8 tilt-propellers for forward flight, 16 VTOL-only propellers.

Electric motors

24 electric motors

Power source

For the prototype, it uses battery packs only or both battery packs and hydrogen fuel cells. The production model is planned to be powered by battery packs and hydrogen fuel cells.

Fuselage

Carbon fiber composite

Wing

1 canard, 1 main high wing

Tail

1 dual tail

Landing gear

8 fixed short struts (or stub legs)

Safety features

Distributed Electric Propulsion (DEP) uses multiple propellers or electric ducted fans, each powered by electric motors, to increase safety through redundancy. If one or more components fail, the remaining ones can still ensure a safe landing. There are also redundancies of critical components in the sub-systems of the aircraft providing safety through redundancy. Having multiple redundant systems on any aircraft decreases having any single point of failure. The aircraft has no moving surfaces or tilting parts when transitioning from vertical to forward flight and the reverse which increases safety by reducing complexity.