INNOSTAR is proud to bring its breakthrough technology to the aerospace industry. This revolutionary concept is set to become the natural link between conventional aircraft designs and emerging eVTOL concepts. INNOSTAR ingenious combination of helicopter and airplane technologies opens a truly new paradigm in high-speed VTOL.
INNOSTAR technology is low risk and near term solution to your high-speed / long-endurance / vertical take-off & landing needs.
INNOSTAR team includes some world-class experts of the vertical flight world, including Norman WERELEY, Department Chair of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland, and Philippe ROESCH, former Director of the AIRBUS X3 demonstrator.
INNOSTAR invents, develops and markets breakthrough High-Speed Vertical Take-Off and Landing technology which surpasses other existing and in-development technologies, offering unmatched competitive edge in speed, range and life cycle costs. Our technology can virtually fit any civilian and military application, manned or unmanned.
uncompromising features
Our technology allows speed on par with traditional aircraft designs.
The drag stays limited thanks to a unique patented design.
Our VTOL capabilities are comparable to current and emerging VTOL designs.
Our design ensures a maximum saftey level for both ground positioning and flight mode.
A little bit of history ...
The concept of vertical access to the airspace above us is just as old as the concept of moving across the air, and there is no wonder why the earlier sketches of flying machines include vision of aerodynes capable of vertical take-off and landing. Despite a slower development of VTOL heavier-than-air-machines compared to airplanes, the quest for speed massively intensified after WW2 thanks to the giant leap in aerospace technologies and political willingness, benefiting rotorcraft greatly.
However, few of the many attempts to combine vertical flight capability and horizontal efficiency came to serial production and were often limited to military programs: Yak-38, Harrier, V22 and F35.
With the advent of 21st century technologies, new VTOL concepts are flourishing, trying to disrupt conventional aerospace and conquer a large slice of the air mobility sector. In 2015, after decades of R&D in the rotorcraft industry, Jean-Michel Simon invented a technique to optimize high-speed VTOL aircraft. Three years of continuous refined submissions to leading technical experts strengthened his conviction that soon first application featuring his technology would be airborne, as the market was becoming ready for another leap in air mobility solutions.
Here is a video of the concept, showing its inception.
Another video illustrating the concept.
get to know the team
Here is a video showing the INNOSTAR mockup flying.