Airplanes anyone can fly
Airhart is making airplanes anyone can fly. Our semi-autonomous tech will enable 10x more people to fly their own planes and make flying to Tahoe as easy as driving to the grocery store
Active Founders
Brendan Quinn
Brendan Quinn is a co-founder of Airhart Aeronautics. He previously spent 4 years at Apple working on the A10 through A15 Bionic, M1, M2. He managed a team responsible for the simulators & emulators of Apple's future chips. Brendan previously ran a team at Cornell building autonomous search and rescue aircraft and is also a pilot.
Nikita Ermoshkin
Nikita Ermoshkin is an electrical and systems engineer with a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University. Nikita was an avionics systems engineer at SpaceX, where he worked on Falcon 9 Fairing recovery, Falcon 9 Payload design, Falcon 9 Stage 2 avionics, and several other projects. Prior to SpaceX and Cornell, Nikita was a co-founder and systems architect at Carbon, where he worked on the development of Carbon's 3D printing technology and printer architecture.
Company Launches
At Airhart, we are building airplanes anyone can fly. We’ve been working on our vehicle for close to a year now and are thrilled to announce we are working with Sling Aircraft in developing our first fully fly-by-wire and easy-to-fly airplane: the Airhart Sling!
Why are we building airplanes?
Common small planes today look, feel, and fly the same way a car from the 1960’s looks, feels, and drives because they were designed and built in that same time. Today, many people don’t see themselves being able to drive a 1960’s manual transmission car, much less a plane from the same era.
Learning the motor skills required to fly a plane today like this adds time, costs, and training complexity. Around 70 to 80% of aspiring pilots drop out before getting their Private Pilot License citing these as reasons.
What is the Airhart Sling?
Based on the Sling TSi, it will possess all the excellent features typical of a TSi:
- capacity for four people (including the pilot)
- a cruise speed of 148 KTAS,
- a range of 800 nautical miles
- only burning 7.4 gallons of fuel per hour.
The Airhart Sling will feature Airhart’s easy-to-fly controls, creating a safe and user-friendly airplane that anyone can fly.
Read more about the Airhart Sling on our website: https://www.airhartaero.com/airhart-sling
Asks
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