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Changes at Skyaid.org  May 15 -> July 2001    

Information has been sorted into the following topics:

Transportation and Airline 

Medical, Heart, AED, ICD, Trauma etc. 

Elderly 

Skyaid

VTOL

MISC 

Transportation and Airline

Free Flight web interview and discussion from Atlantic Monthly  added 06/25/01

Costs of an automobile vehicle mile:   added 06/24/01
highest cost is travel time, then vehicle cost, then operating cost.

Skycar flights will disturb 33,000 times fewer neighbors than jet    added 06/07/01

Fastest travel on trips of 40 to 500 miles will be by Skycar   added 06/06/01

50 seat aircraft costs for 200 and 300 mile flight legs
The largest direct operating cost is the cost of the aircraft     added 06/06/01

Potential Skycar Routes  at existing high speed trains, ferry, delivery  at Airline page - updated 06/06/01

FAA Airport 2001 Executive Summary added 06/06/01 

Lower cost to fly Skycar than jet on flight legs shorter than 500 miles added 06/03/01

Many aircraft consume 3X more fuel during climb than cruise
and some aircraft do not reduce fuel consumption during descent  added 06/03/01

Americans do not travel by air much if round trip is <500 miles 
Skycars will be great for short trips added 06/02/01

10 reasons the Skycar will be green (environmentally)   added 06/02/01

Costs of running an air service
Skycar might cost just 1/5 of standard jet service    added 06/02/01

NASA report on personal aircraft in 1994 described many of the limitations which the Skycar overcomes    added 06/02/01

Most of the airport congestion 
occurs during poor weather at the 100 busiest airports in the US. added 06/01/01

US airport traffic congestion would be reduced by at least 40% 
if short flight legs could be eliminated (by using Skycars) added 5/31/01

Vertiport - major update  06/11/01

Medical, Heart, AED, ICD, Trauma etc.

Trauma Organization  added 06/24/01 (new web page)
http://www.trauma.org/
Their guide to the internet http://www.trauma.org/resources/guide-intro.html
Their links to other trauma sites: http://www.trauma.org/webpointers.html
Scoop and Run - Their e-mail discussion from 1996 http://www.trauma.org/archives/scooop.html
Emergency services database of Internet sites http://www.trauma.org/resources/guide-intro.html
     click here for Trauma at Skyaid

Heart attack deaths vary with the season, but not with the day of the week  added 06/23/01

Sudden Cardiac Arrest death rate is greater than for stroke, lung cancer, breast cancer, etc.  added 06/23/01

US Maps of Rural regions, Death rates, Auto deaths, Critical Care Hospitals, etc.  added 06/24/01

Cool the blood for stroke/heart attack patients- article from Technology Review   added 06/16/01

Spinal Cord Injury - will there be a golden hour for Spinal Cord Injury as well ?   (new web page)

Likelihood of surviving SCA decreases rapidly with time till AED defibrillation. added 5/13/01

Heartstream has some easily understood graphs of sudden cardiac arrest  added 5/13/01

11 Neuro. myths to retire now - from Registered Nurse magazine, June 1997.  added 06/08/01
Just 4 years ago this article reminded professional nurses of the break thrus in stroke treatment.
It is easy to understand that the lay public is not aware of the improvements yet.
#4 MYTH: Stroke is virtually untreatable, 
      so there's no reason for patients to seek emergency care of for nurses to rush patients into treatment protocols.
#5 MYTH: If a patient with acute ischemic stroke is also suffering from hypertension, treat it quickly to prevent hemorrhage.
#10 MYTH: Acute stroke patients do just as well on a medical/surgical unit as they would on an acute stroke unit.

Reducing ambulance response time to 5 minutes could double heart attack survival rates, however this is too expensive, without considering traffic congestion.  added 06/07/01

Heart Rate Monitor description from Polar    added 06/16/01

Omron http://www.omronhealthcare.com
allows you to monitor blood pressure
and heart rate on your wrist.  
Heart rate is measured with a chest strap
from Popular Science   added 06/16/01

Silent Strokes article from March 13, 2001   added 6/05/01

Life Insurance: Roughly 1 in 5 Americans who are now 20 will die before age 65*.  Some Americans buy life insurance to alleviate the financial consequences for their family of a premature death.  Other Americans get life insurance coverage as part of their employment package. The average total for individual life insurance over a 20 year time period is $2,000.  We can speculate how much people will pay to decrease by 50% the chance of death for that time period with Skyaid. * from Principles of Risk Management and Insurance, 6th edition, 1998  added 5/20/01

Ambulance time to arrival at rural auto accidents is typically long.  
This study had average response time of 19 minutes with a standard deviation of 9 minutes. 
A Skyaid service would be much faster, 
  and thus save lives and reduce recovery time and long term disability   added 5/20/01

Stroke, traumatic brain injury links    also from New Zealand stale as of Dec 2001  added 5/201/01

The FAA does not permit pilots who are too old (>60) to fly large passenger jets. 
These experienced pilots can, however, fly commuter aircraft like Skycars (fewer passengers)

Skyaid 

Conditions which must be considered (EMS, Rural, Type of Emergency, communications, 
to estimate the reduction in death rate from Skyaid Watch and then Skycar. added 06/22/01

Officers of Skyaid Organization have been established.  added  06/20/01

VTOL 

Wankel Rotary Combustion Engines web site covers 24 subjects, which include Hydrogen, aviation, marine, snowmobiles, and manufacturers (including Moller)   added 06/20/01

Carbon fiber construction of aircraft - a recent article on an old topic   added 06/19/01

Unmanned Horizontal or Vertical Takeoff and Landing (HOVTOL) patented April 1999  http://www.delphion.com/details?&pn=US05890441__  
Nice review of VTOLS at UNMANNEDAIRCRAFT.COM     added 06/24/01

Airbike - concept for a personal ducted fan.  Radio control model has been flown added 6/11/01

NASA vision for Rotocraft is similar to our vision of Skycar:  added 06/08/01  
Free-up airports while providing faster transportation on trips which are less than 300 miles.

Rotorcraft VTOL web page - includes Skycar,  CarterCopter, Raven, SoloTrek, etc.  added 06/08/01

V/STOL  concepts which were never built   added 06/08/01

V/STOL which were built  with wheel (large = 200Kbytes) , time line, etc. added 06/08/01

Overview of 50+ different VTOL aircraft  Russian site in English  added 06/08/01
Types: Tilt shaft / rotor ,Tilt prop, Tilt wing, Tilt rotor, Tilt jet, Deflekted slipstream, Vectored thrust, Tail sitters, Lift + Lift / cruise, Tip jets, Ejector, Fan

RAH-66 Helicopter is very expensive ($39 million each) and so heavy (9,475 lbs) that it can not climb the 500 feet per minute necessary to get away from enemy fire.  The Skycar, which the US Department of Defense is interested in, at less than 1/10 the cost should be able to climb 10X faster   added 5/19/01

Definitions VTOL thru ESTOL from Zuk below   added 06/06/01

US Congress long discussion May 9 on VTOL, tilt rotor, NASA, DP-2, and a little mention of Skycar.   added 06/05/01
Includes mention of possibility of redesignating funds to general VTOL from just tilt-rotor
See also the testimony before the discussion by Zuk and by duPont

MISC 

http://www.paulmccaghren.com/skycar.htm
Animation of a Skycar flying over a city  added 06/09/01

Help us develop a good way to describe Skyaid.   added 06/09/01

Testing: Skycar nose being lifted by 2 of 4 front engines  added 5/21/01

CellPhone users = 1,000,000,000 by 2002, 
but they will use 3 different communications technologies.  
Meteor Burst communications, however, 
will have a single standard which will allow Skyaid Watches to be used anywhere on earth. 
Meteor Burst communications towers should be less than 1/1000 the cost of cell-phone towers     added 5/20/01