The Jetpod gives vision to the future of flight

For emergency response teams, the ability to relocate anywhere within 500 kilometres inside an hour would save many lives. As a civil surgical air-ambulance with the space to run straight in with a stretcher it would also save many lives.

MILITARY USAGE

The military M-300 Jetpod's 300 knots high-speed cruise is well suited to 7-man special operations rapid ingress/egress, battlefield command-and-control, fast extraction of wounded troops, and for Aircraft Carrier operations it does not need a catapult or arrester gear. A squadron of M-400s could conceivably operate from modified versions of other Navy ships.

The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Jetpods

The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), is a term you'll hear a lot more about over the coming years. In the past it has mainly been mentioned whenever a technologically advanced country (aka the USA) is involved in warfare.

The biggest advantage of a UAV is that it can be put 'in harm's way' - it can be put in a dangerous situation where the odds of losing a pilot (the most valuable part of any aircraft) are simply too great.

Used on a limited but increasing scale since the Vietnam War for aerial surveillance - 10 UAV systems were used in the US invasion of Iraq - UAVs are now taking on a more active combat role as well as finding applications in the private sector.

There are two Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) variants planned, and these offer some unique capabilities, including the ability to maintain a hover as well as sweeping areas at 300 knots.

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