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This electric aircraft could cut emergency response times in half for patients in rural areas (www.deseret.com)

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Pulse is a piloted aircraft that can transport a medic or EMT trained to pilot it. The pilot flies while standing up and looks out a large window to see where to go and land.

Instead of picking patients up and taking them to a hospital, Pulse allows help to arrive quicker than current technology does.

“They fly themselves to the scene of the emergency, they get out with their life-saving equipment and they go and they stabilize the patient,” Dietrich said. “They stay with the patient until the ambulance shows up, and then oftentimes they’ll actually go with the patient because they know the most about the patient at that moment.”

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[–] JustAnotherPodunk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"Pulse can cover 2,800 square miles in under eight minutes and land on rocky terrain"

I highly doubt that.

[–] sparkyshocks@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

That's just being able to go 30 miles in 8 minutes, in any direction. Once that is possible, the area covered in that circle is π r^2, or 3.14 x 30 x 30, for about 2800 square miles.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

"Pulse can cover 2,800 square miles in under eight minutes and land on rocky terrain"

30 x 30 x 3.14 = about 2800.

So it's got a 30 mile radius, in 8 minutes, that's 225 mph.

So it's pretty speedy, but it's range is limited. I am assuming that it also has enough juice to be able to fly back.