What is a Helikite
A helikite is a patented aerostat design and is the World’s first aerodynamic, lighter-than-air aircraft. It is a combined high altitude tethered balloon with a kite that is pushed up by both helium and wind giving stable and permanent flight. Military Personnel, Real-estate businesses and residents use the Skyshot Helikite across the globe. It is used for aerial photographs and video for surveillance situations and border control, pictures for real estate sales and surveying, festivals and many other applications. Governments and School Academics from around the world use the Skyshot for research and special projects. The Skyshot Helikite is a versatile and effective solution for quick and high quality aerial photography and video. The size of Helikite is generally determined by how much weight needs to be lifted into the air. Used for meteorology, military, research, surveillance, & communications and much more.
Airborne Revolution
The most effective and economical method of persistently lifting payload into the sky ever devised. Low cost, high lift. Robust design using military grade materials. Uses substantially less helium with more weight lifted than other aerostats, blimps and tethered helium kites. Helikites can fly from 150 feet in the air to several thousand feet high. Helikites are capable of flying payloads from a few ouncess to many pounds.
Uses Include:
- Environmental Research
- Meteorology & Atmospheric
- Sciences
- Cloud and Pollution
- Research
- Military & Surveillance
- Science and Research
- GoPro & GoTenna Systems
- Payload Attachments
- Radar Systems
- Communication Relays for 4 and 5G
- Unmanned Vehicle Relay
- Substantially Extend Line of Sight for Transceivers and Radar
- Fibre Optics Options
Facts
High winds that send other aerostats crashing to the ground, actually push Helikites higher into the sky. Helikites are the world’s only successful kite-balloon hybrid aerostat. Helikites are very tough, surviving extreme weather in military trials that literally tore other aerostats to shreds. Unique design means that even small Helikites can fly to thousands of feet without the need for a ballonet or constant electrical power. Helikites mean that aerostats are no longer just fair-weather aircraft. Helium costs are low with helikites in comparison to other aerostats with the same payloads.
Helikites are incredibly versatile. The same basic design scales up in size infinitely. Special Forces troops can take a Jungle Marker Helikite from their back pocket, inflate it with 0.4m3 of helium in seconds and then fly it hundreds of feet above the jungle canopy for emergency position location. Equally, a 100m3 version of the same basic design, flown to 5000ft from the back of a naval vessel, can lift fibre-optic cable and sensors capable of detecting anti-ship missiles from 100 miles away. Rapid-reaction Helikite aerostat deployment systems have been developed to lift 4G base stations to provide reliable 4G communications for emergency services during large crowd events and disasters.
When you absolutely must have a reliable aerostat to operate in all conditions, there is only one choice – the unique, unmatched, Helikite.