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Tupan 1000
Tupan Aircraft
Jacarei, Sao Paulo, Brazil
www.tupan.tec.br


Tupan is a start-up hybrid-electric electric vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) and electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) company founded by a group of Brazilian engineers with years of experience in propulsion system design, flight testing, aerodynamics and autonomous flight. The company, based in Jacarei near São Paulo in Brazil, is working with Turbomachine in São José dos Campos on the development of the small turbine engines that are key to the design of the Tupan-1000, -2000, and -3000 model vehicles. The company has revealed their aircraft is expected to be high-speed, have a long range, carry a heavy payload, have low manufacturing costs and have low costs for operations.


The Tupan 1000 is a remote controlled (or autonomous) turbine powered hybrid-electric VTOL scalable, fast, long-range and heavy-lift air cargo aircraft. The aircraft has been designed to be partially modular. The power source is either hybrid-electric with turbine engines and back-up batteries or the aircraft can be powered solely by batteries. The aircraft has canard wings and at the end of each wing are Electric Ducted Fans (EDFs) which tilt for VTOL, forward and rearward flight.


The aircraft models, in order of production, for Tupan Aircraft are as follows:


Tupan 1000 air cargo aircraft: 140 kg (309 lb) maximum payload
Tupan 2000 air cargo aircraft: 280 kg (617 lb) maximum payload
Tupan 3000 air cargo aircraft: 600 kg (1,323 lb) maximum payload
Tupan (model number unknown): Passenger aircraft
The estimated cruise speed for the Tupan 1000 is 850 km/h (528 mph) with a range of 1,200 km (746 miles) and has a maximum payload of 600 kg (1,323 lb). The power for all electric systems is from turbine engines. There are also back-up batteries in the aircraft and are charged during flight by the turbine engines. The back-up batteries were added in case of an engine failure and if engine failure occurs, the cargo drone can land safely using power from its onboard batteries.

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