Porter
Autonomous cargo VTOL — 1.5t palletized, 400km, hover-discharge.
Porter is the mid-mile workhorse: a distributed-electric multirotor cargo airframe that lifts 1.5 tonnes vertically, holds a corridor for 400 kilometres, and sets a palletized module down without a crew or a strip.
Eight lift rotors on a fabricated boom frame give it engine-out redundancy and a quiet acoustic signature. It charges between sorties from a standard vertipad and re-dispatches on the Vector stack.
The same airframe that resupplies an island clinic services the deck of a Segal hull or the apron of a Cumulus corridor — one platform, re-tasked per leg.
Stages from a Segal hull to extend last-mile resupply reach offshore.
// BASE SPECIFICATIONS
- Span
- 9 m
- Length
- 9 m
- Lift system
- Distributed-electric, 8-rotor
- Base payload
- 900 kg
- Base range
- 300 km
- Endurance
- 4 h
- Crew
- 0
In build — first articles flying for partners next program year.
// CONFIGURABLE OPTIONS
Mission profiles
- LogisticsMid-mile palletized resupply.
Lift / propulsion
- Distributed-electric8-rotor, engine-out redundant.
- Hybrid range-extendOnboard generator for long legs.
Payload modules
- Palletized dryStandard pallet module.
- Refrigerated podCold-chain medical / food.
Endurance / range tiers
- Standard — 300km
- Extended — 500km
Sensor / comms packages
- Detect-and-avoid radar
- Logistics datalink
Autonomy modes
- CrewlessNo onboard crew on a standard sortie — Vector resolves its own airspace.
- SupervisedSingle-command human oversight from the ground.