» Market need

Air-freight is the most neglected sector in aviation and probably business history: despite a trillion dollar industry. Only with Tronologs service entry will the Air Freight industry have its own product.  

Present freight aircraft are new or old airliners converted to carry freight or poorly adapted, inefficient military or civil types not designed for this role. Often the aircraft used are retired airliners, inefficient in terms of payload and ecologically. All have poor capacity and load capability, and resultantly high operating expenses. With such inadequacies the market suffers, slowing growth below the true rate otherwise possible. Air freight growth has been retarded by this lack of suitable air-transport that Q-series is designed for. Providing shorter waiting times for cargo customers as well as budget bulk air-freight for all business encourages growth in this multi-billion dollar industry.

Tronolog has been designed to carry all types of general freight and shipping containers meaning no transfer delays finding suitable transport. Reloading of containers from conventional to aviation grade containers will be a thing of the past. Freight is simply placed upon the backs of trucks or trains via a rail siding or spur, and taken to its destination; quick, simple and cheap. Payloads can be loaded and unloaded independent of auxiliary equipment.

» The end of isolation

Delivery of virtually any product to any location in the world in under a day means production rates can be more efficient, as manufacturing and orders can be based upon actual sales rather than projected sales lowering costs by reducing required stock, merchandise, parts or other items usually stored until needed, allowing associated capital to be used elsewhere. This increases profit and available cash reserves, resulting in greater sales and profit from flow-on cost reductions to consumers.

Though every city will benefit from faster export times, the edge will be returned to industry in inland cities and countries, generating growth, investment, and job opportunities presently restricted by distances and borders to the nearest port facility. Industry in such locations, presently restricted by transport times and expenses in comparison to port cities, will have similar freight prices to seaside competitors and with equally fast import and export times. Tronolog allows industrial and export growth in often impoverished, isolated areas.

The dual benefit provides business access to competitive labour and produce markets found in such locations: lower income areas have lower average wages and suffer particularly during harsh economic times. Accessing cheaper labour reduces production and produce costs, with savings passed onto consumers. While cheap labour is often frowned upon, the GDP of countries concerned enables workers to achieve relative success within their country. Inland areas have difficulty finding investors and large companies because of the distance in delivery times months away. Inland areas are forced to take even less than seaside equals and loose work contracts. Tronolog assures competitiveness in a global market; many items of produce cannot be exported from these areas for this reason.

» History

Early research found although the relative load capable of being lifted by a practical sized aircraft is extremely small in comparison to a container ships, such an aircraft would be similar in size to an average length goods train. This opened preliminary concepts leading to the Q configuration 7 years ago provided the high speed container and freight transport needed by the high-growth air cargo industry. Tronolog is designed specifically for the freight industry giving considerable efficiency and cost superiority over present types. The ultra efficient Shaeneen series of subsonic passenger jets derived a lot of the design credentials that were originally employed and innovated by the Q-series Tronolog design-work.

» Green plus

Tronolog will remove hundreds of inefficient, old aircraft from cargo operator fleets that would otherwise take decades to replace with newer types: by then of course such types would still be inefficient. This substantially reduces pollution, particularly with hydrogen powered versions zeroing carbon emissions.

Kerosene or bio jet-fuel versions of the Tronolog will be used more at locations without such infrastructure, due to the availability and easier storage of jet fuel. A single Tronolog will carry 3 times the payload of present cargo types with similar route fuel consumption. Hydrogen powered Q-300H Tronologs will be available, with initial versions featuring a payload of 30 shipping containers, adapted from the jet fuel powered Tronolog. This aircraft will bring clean operation of hydrogen power with the stability of hydrogen fuel prices in operation.

» Users

Operators of these aircraft are expected to be freight businesses, and shipping companies to diversify operations and remain competitive. Sales of Tronolog are expected to be high because of the great requirement of the freight industry. Once the Tronolog is flying the air-cargo industry, severely restricted by a lack of such an aircraft will expand to new levels.