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Uniqopter - the technical details and the business case

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Richard Abbott , CTO -------------------------- Towards the end of 2021 I connected with Eugene Pik on Linkedin. Eugene is an interesting guy – raised in Soviet Belarus, moved to Israel and has been running his business in Canada for many years. He wanted to produce a eVTOL aircraft that would serve the medical evacuation (medevac) market better than the helicopters that are currently being used. We had some long discussions and we made a few decisions. We would seek to make the project and the corporation fully open source. This decision is where the articles on open source have come from and this has proved to be very interesting. In the name of open source we would be honest about all aspects of the program. We would make no optimistic projections, we would seek to exploit no markets that do not currently exist, we would not plan to set up our own operations company to place orders for the product. We would set up the commercial aspect of the program like any other traditional aircr
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Uniqopter - an honest eVTOL program

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After 9 months of hard work, I am presenting the Uniqopter project.  Uniqopter was conceived as a hybrid eVTOL aircraft targeted for air ambulance operations.  As a mission targeted vehicle, it was intended to have a number of specific medical features currently not available in air ambulance helicopters. Our program is completely transparent, both financially and technically, in our attempt to bring forth an Open Source Hardware aircraft enterprise.   It is our intent to share our blueprints, procedures, policies, business plan, and more, while maintaining partner, supplier, and employee confidentiality.  In the name of open source we would be honest about all aspects of the program. We would make no optimistic projections, we would seek to exploit no markets that do not currently exist, we would not plan to set up our own operations company to place orders for the product.   Vehicle technical information, parameters, characteristics, business case, and market analysis are available a
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Uniqopter - an Open Source Hardware Aircraft Project

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On the face of it an open source aircraft project sounds a little absurd. Aircraft projects are expensive endeavors, why would we choose to give the technology away as we develop it? Well, there are some good arguments. If any of you have looked into patents, how they are filed, who files them and what they are used for, you will be aware of the general misuse or at worst abuse of the patent system. Most of the new aircraft companies use patents to form a ‘patent cloud’ to perform a number of functions: To create the impression of a high level of unique and valuable intellectual property to impress potential investors To create the appearance of a large amount protected proprietary information, where there actually is minimal innovation, to discourage anyone copying any aspect of your design To protect actual unique ideas and real innovation Considering the expense and effort that a startup company ends up sinking into intellectual property protection; is there a viable alternative? Wh
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