Today I would like to tell you about the use of the air in the City 2.0.
There’re two reasons why I have chosen this topic.
The first is that I am a professional player on the market.
I promote services and aircraft equipment to people and different organizations concerned.
The second is what I see out of my flat’s window every day.
Sorry technical failure, we will try to repair it.
By the way, that is the way it is with traffic in Moscow.
Helicopters actively solve this problem in all big cities in the world.
The problem is to transfer people and emergency services
in order to optimize their movement and to minimize their influence on the uniform motion of surface transport.
What is the reason for transport problems?
Why are there traffic jams?
There’re two problems.
The first is that the pace of development of a modern city implies its development in two sides-in breadth and in height.
If it grew only in breadth, the number of cars within the city limits
would be proportional to the square of the distance from the center.
But in view of the fact that the city grows also in height
the number of cars is proportional to the cube of the distance from the city center
that can’t be realized by the area of land which is free from development.
Thus, there will be so many cars that it will be impossible to place them on routs.
The second problem is that the possibility of optimizing surface transport is limited.
It is possible to control it by traffic lights or by any other ways
but as a result there’s nothing else that can be done.
Then the third dimension comes to help.
The whole world has already added the aircraft to its armoury.
Air taxi - the most banal and interesting service which the city provides to its population.
With the help of this service any citizen who is motivated to get somewhere can do it without traffic jams.
Thus, the transfer to the airport from the city center will take only 5-7 minutes.
Special services and VIP, which also move on helicopters.
At last, that’s what I wanted to show you.
Here’s what I and many of you can see out from a flat’s window.
I’ve already told you about the problems and why it happens.
And that is the solution of the problem.
It's above New York, which is a little bit greater in area than Moscow, where flights are permitted.
At any moment, you can see helicopters, holding up yours head .
The helicopter can land at any place and performs its function.
This is the cabin of an Italian helicopter.
The functions which helicopter performs, I’ve already told you.
It is not a fantasy, this is the reality of the modern world, which we want to see as soon as possible.
As far as the safety concerned, a helicopter is a very safe vehicle.
It is believed that flying is dangerous.
Fighting helicopters are shown on TV shows that is very photogenic.
But it is more safe to fly than to drive a car.
According to statistics it is hundredfold safer.
We have great experience in working with helicopters above the city and we have to use it because it is safe.
But a helicopter is not an universal design that will solve the problem of traffic jams.
There are restrictions in its use:
Firstly, it’s expensive.
Secondly, it can not land at any roof or balcony as it is shown in movies,
it needs special space where it is safe to carry out boarding and landing of passengers.
Consequently, only helicopter can solve the issues of goods delivery and people within the city limits,
because it has a number of advantages:
It can take off and land vertically and it is very safe.
Here is a view of New York from the helicopter’s cabin.
Helicopters are classified into types, depending on the tasks they solve.
Passenger helicopters which are mostly needed in the city.
This is «Ïèòåð» and «Ìè-8» - an old Soviet helicopter which is still flying.
This is a modern 12-seat 2-engine passenger helicopter of Italian concern "Augusta-Westland".
It is needed in many cities.
This is a helicopter of company "Bell".
As you see the door is opened, a video is filming with a direct transmission on TV.
Helicopters are widely used in media purposes in big cities.
It gives a possibility to broadcast different events.
This is the latest model of the helicopter "Bell / Augusta 609".
Convertiplane - a new type of helicopter.
He takes off as a helicopter and during a flight rotors are lowered and it flies as a plane.
As a result it combines the best aspects of a helicopter and a plane.
Here in the left top is a helicopter of a company "Eurocopter".
It gathers speed more than 400 km/h, that is rarely for helicopters.
In the right top it is shown a pragmatic use of helicopters for firefighting in Moscow, for example.
Unfortunately, we haven’t much time, that’s why I will not talk about the helicopter control.
The helicopter is easy to control, but of course by a professional pilot.
No fiction, it is not a spaceship.
All flight configurations are clear, safe and predictable.
In future we will use flight facilities as personal aircraft.
Prototypes exist already.
In the left is shown a prototype, which flies already.
The problems of personal aircraft are:
they are connected with the current state of affairs in technology.
One of the problems - the lack of specific abilities of these designs due to limitations in size and price.
Another problem is the complexity of flight operations because flying is more complicated than driving a car and it is needed to transfer all this complexity in electronics and automation.
These processes are difficult to automate but in future it will be automated.
We hope that in future aircrafts for personal use will be as distributed as cars, what is topical for the movement in the city 2.0.
Tests of prototypes are going on in miniature, these schemes work.
In future we will see something like that.
This device I have already shown.
Another interesting design.
Professional developers are experimenting with various schemes
in order to make the best use of these schemes for the creation of individual aircrafts.
In future, I hope we'll fly on such devices as well as we travel by car.
Thank you for your attention!