Tactical Organic Airborne Demonstrator (C-LVL TOAD)

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Subject: Tactical Organic Airborne Demonstrator (C-LVL TOAD)
KFRtoad 1/30/2008 11:12:06 AM

I have seen a lot of discussions about the urgent need for more airframes in the current military and disaster theaters, but they are not widely available because of costs and complexity I guess.

Our company C-LVL ( link ) is working on a small rugged tactical autogyro. We based our design on a civilian model and modified it extensively to build a real working ultralight (lifting body, crash proof cabin,efficient powerful turbocharged Rotax engine, hard-points, ...).
The TOAD has a simple autogyro design you can learn to fly in 2 weeks, the payload is limited compared to typical air assets but the cost enable swarm deployment.
Capable of transporting up to 3 crew members, it could be used for damage assessment, search and rescue, surveillance, tracking of vehicles and vessels, photography and reconnaissance.
We like to think of it as a new airborne ?horse cavalry?, capable of moving light supplies and carry out reconnaissance quickly and stealthily.

I would be curious to hear what you think about our low cost / low tech approach.

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