Autonomous cargo aircraft for the mountains of Nepal.
Atlis is a Nepal-based company building aircraft that fly without a pilot and deliver payloads to the country's mountain and remote regions.
The ground in Nepal rises from 59 metres to 8,849.
Roads follow the rivers and climb in switchbacks. Landslides close many of them every monsoon. A place that is near on the map can be a day or more away on the ground.
- Lowest point
- 59 m
- Highest point
- 8,849 m
- Mean width, south to north
- 193 km
- Peaks above 8,000 m
- 8 of 14
An example: Pokhara to Jomsom
The two towns are 68 km apart. A straight line between them crosses the Annapurna range over ground about 7,500 m high.
The lowest path runs through the Kali Gandaki gorge. It is 107 km long and its highest ground is about 3,000 m.
Finding and flying a path like the second one, without a pilot, is the problem Atlis is working on.
- Straight line
- 68 km
- Lowest path
- 107 km
Example only. Atlis has not chosen its first routes.
What we are designing.
The aircraft does not exist yet. These are the requirements it is being designed to meet. Numbers will be published once they are measured.
- Autonomy
- It flies the whole mission on its own, from launch to return. No pilot on board and no one steering from the ground.
- Airframe
- Fixed wing. It covers more distance on the same energy than a rotor drone.
- Environment
- Cold, and wind that changes from one valley to the next. At 4,000 m the air is a third thinner than at sea level.
- Payload
- Cargo for mountain and remote regions. Weight and volume are not fixed yet.
Atlis is at the planning stage.
Nothing has been built or flown. This list will change as that does.
- 01Requirements and conceptIn progress
- 02Aircraft designNot started
- 03PrototypeNot started
- 04Flight testingNot started
- 05First deliveriesNot started
Investors, partners and sponsors.
Atlis is at the start. If you want to fund it, work with it or support it, write to us.
Contact details will be added here.