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More! Technical Information Press About DBT Aero, Inc. Visuals FAQ Contact ⇒ Navigate Home – Technical Information – Press – About DBT Aero, Inc. Visuals FAQ Contact Home More! Technical Information Press About DBT Aero, Inc. Visuals FAQ Contact ⇒ Navigate Home – Technical Information – Press – About DBT Aero, Inc. Visuals FAQ Contact Home Thunderstruck Operators Rating Comfortable, fast, and cost effective: Synergy is a new class of airplane. A Remarkable Breakthrough Synergy Aircraft exists to commercialize new technologies for modern personal aircraft. Our first smartplane, Synergy Prime , is a beautiful new taste of a practical future for aviation. It’s a safer, faster, more comfortable six seater that obliterates prior limits for performance with economy. As with any genuinely revolutionary discovery, there is far more to the story than meets the eye. We warmly invite you to join us in learning more about the key innovations that are helping to shape the future of flight. Pictures Videos Getting Started At regional distances, personal transportation has never been fast, nor economical, nor efficient. Door to door speeds are as abysmal for airlines as they are for driving, and even private jets can’t offer the comfort, payload, and go-anywhere utility achieved with the family automobile. Big jets demand sprawling infrastructure and deaf neighbors. There’s a better way. Synergy brings a systematic approach to dramatically reducing the energy cost and noise of flight at higher airspeeds. Through its brilliant aerodynamics, direct flight at 6x the speed of ground transportation becomes just as affordable as driving. Fifty times as many communities than are served by commercial carriers already have suitable neighborhood airfields, thanks to Synergy’s quiet takeoffs and slow landings. The patented advantages that give Synergy its exceptional stability, speed, and control (through major drag reduction!) also allow it to be dramatically more comfortable and spacious for up to seven people. And safer, thanks to its inherent stall resistance and excellent low speed handling. These attributes are the right foundation for successfully applying existing and new technologies for smartplane communications and autonomy. The result, in turn, is an unprecedented business pathway from niche market success to mass market viability, in which the only missing ingredients needed are our simple, low cost airframe structures that can be mass produced. We want to do, for airplanes, what Tesla Motors did for electric cars. We’re at the garage prototype level now, but we have a Roadster-like niche of opportunity to create tremendous growth and value. That will result in a viable certified production ala Model S, and a future demand that dwarfs all static market projections. We believe that simple aircraft built on the right foundations -both in business and design- are a beneficial investment in mobility and quality of life. Group travel in our comfortable, affordable smartplanes™ would be faster and more economical than any other form of regional transportation. At Synergy Aircraft, we understand that for personal airplanes to reconnect with their potential customers, or realize their potential benefit to society, they must provide: A more spacious cabin. A quiet, smooth ride. Far greater economy, using common fuels. Easier operation; i.e. nontraditional operator requirements Slow landings at tiny local airfields. Advanced smartplane(TM) autonomy. Far lower price. Greatly reduced travel time. True passenger safety. Quiet, neighborhood manners. Adaptability to hybrid, electric, and other advanced engine technologies. High volume manufacturing. Synergy is creating the first aircraft that can achieve all of these benefits. We are working the entire problem at once: fundamental flight physics, human factors, and industrial economics. Because our first example solves one of the largest shared problems in the modern world, we are utterly committed to bringing it to life. We appreciate your interest, and we welcome the assistance of everyone who believes it is long past time for the modern airplane to arrive. General Aviation, the Next Generation Fuel Efficient Synergy is three times more fuel efficient than most General Aviation aircraft. Fast Synergy uses brilliant physics to achieve twice the expected speed for a given horsepower. Quiet Due to its turbocharged rear engine, laminar-flow aerodynamics, and submarine-like tail fan, Synergy is far quieter than other aircraft. Spacious Synergy has a spacious six-seat interior, yet a smaller total size than a two-seat trainer. Synergy Prime: A leap forward in the ratio of energy used, for the momentum obtained. Something known since the 1950s, yet hardly acknowledged, is that even though some airplanes fly at very low speeds efficiently, and others fly at very high speeds efficiently, all prior aircraft waste enormous amounts of energy to fly in the mid-subsonic speed range. The present economics of on-demand regional aviation are abysmal from first concept to final flight. This controlling fact underlies all of the superficial reasons why people don’t have their own airplanes, and it traces to a singular physical issue. The problem is the way that existing aircraft (don’t fully) deal with aerodynamic drag. Through its comprehensive, patented design , Synergy became the first aircraft to directly attack the hidden issues causing the problem, then simultaneously apply six of the most advanced drag reduction technologies to fix them. One key is its distinctiveDouble Boxtail ™” wing-becomes-tail configuration. ( Similar-looking but inferior box wing” ideas have been rejected for decades because they’re unstable, structurally vulnerable, and create interference drag. In contrast, Synergy’s DBT configuration provides rock-solid stability with greater strength and without interference drag. It achieves this stability and its naturally coordinated turn control by reducing the dominant cause of drag at lower speeds, higher weights, and higher altitudes, which is called induced drag”.) Unlike every boxwing design, the twin horizontal tails -above and behind each wingtip- aren’t ‘wings’ to make more lift. In fact, these moving ‘control surfaces’ actually create a downward force most of the time. Putting the right amount of this downward force in the right place above the wingtip reacts against ‘induced drag’ so well that it actually reduces the total drag, much like a sailplane reduces its total drag by adding wingspan. Some think of it like origami: folding up a long wing in 3-D space to help achieve stable, high-speed flight…while carrying a lot more useful load than a glider. Our abundant flight surfaces increase safety. The DBT configuration allows safer low speed handling, lower landing speeds, and a demonstrated stall prevention and recovery technology aimed at stamping out the number one cause of small airplane accidents. Synergy tails are just the beginning… but a key to unprecedented improvements Synergy’s unique ‘tail on the wings configuration’ provides many amazing benefits related to stability and high span efficiency,” leading to excellent low and high speed performance. Eliminating unnecessary length allows less-visible technologies for laminar flow, pressure thrust, and boundary layer control to provide yet higher speeds with economy. These features in combination provide the 8x improvement required for Synergy to double the speed per HP of General Aviation. Our turbocharged jet-fuel diesel engine , ballistic parachute, and next-generation, self-flying smartplane ™ electronics are other key technologies to help lower barriers to personally operating an airplane. Future versions accept many options for energy source and powerplant, because the fuselage is accommodating. Synergy aerodynamics unlock the door to practical electric flight, and various electric versions are already worked up that can achieve more than 750 mile...