Skyportz Australia today announced the commercial launch of Aeroberm™, a patented modular vertipad system, in a simultaneous global debut at VFS Forum 82 in West Palm Beach and Rotortech 2026 on the Gold Coast.
“Bespoke vertiport construction costs are prohibitive for most developers,” said the company in a press release. “Aeroberm’s off the shelf, modular, deployable design brings vertipad infrastructure within reach for property owners, developers, and regional operators.
The FAA’s Engineering Brief 105A sets a 34.5 mph outwash boundary threshold, continued Skyportz. “Meeting that standard on conventional tarmac demands vast buffer zones — land that doesn’t exist in mature cities or exists only at prohibitive cost. Aeroberm’s fractal panels redirect and dissipate outwash, dramatically shrinking the required safety footprint.
“eVTOL aircraft are quiet at altitude. They are not quiet at take-off and landing. Aeroberm’s fractal panel technology reduces acoustic impact at the vertipad — a prerequisite for community acceptance in dense urban environments. Lithium-ion thermal runaway is a dealbreaker for building owners being asked to host vertiports. Aeroberm’s integrated immersion-based “dunk tank” system contains and neutralises battery fires — protecting surrounding tenants and eliminating the extended evacuations that would make vertipad hosting commercially and reputationally untenable.
The Aeroberm™ system is underpinned by peer-reviewed computational fluid dynamics research conducted at Swinburne University — the first CFD modelling of fractal surface geometry applied to eVTOL ground operations, establishing a new benchmark for vertipad safety and amenity performance, said Skyportz.
The research will be presented at VFS Forum 82 in West Palm Beach by Swinburne researcher Andrew Che and founder Clem Newton-Brown, and simultaneously at Rotortech 2026 on the Gold Coast by Professor Justin Leontini of Swinburne University.
“Many major cities are planning for air taxis, yet almost none have figured out the landing infrastructure approvals process. That’s the opportunity,” said Clem Newton-Brown.
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