AEROBERM™ (a Skyportz company) LAUNCHES THE FRACTAL PANEL.
Australian vertipad technology tackles the primary barriers blocking the air taxi revolution – downwash and outwash safety.
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.
The industry will soon have electric air taxis. But where can they land?
Tens of billions of dollars have been invested in eVTOL aircraft. Yet without a dense, affordable network of landing infrastructure, none of that investment can deliver on its promise.
Limiting deployment to existing airports and heliports produces nothing more than an expensive evolution of helicopter services. The transformative vision — aviation on demand, at the density of ride-sharing — requires vertipads where people actually are: on buildings, in suburbs, at regional hubs.
That infrastructure does not exist. Four critical barriers are preventing it from being built.
“You can’t build an aviation network without places to land. Right now, other than legacy helipads, we don’t have them.” — Clem Newton-Brown, Founder, Aeroberm and Skyportz Australia
The Four Showstoppers — And How Aeroberm™ Solves Each
Cost.
Bespoke vertiport construction costs are prohibitive for most developers. Aeroberm’s off the shelf, modular, deployable design brings vertipad infrastructure within reach for property owners, developers, and regional operators.
Downwash and outwash.
The FAA’s Engineering Brief 105A sets a 34.5 mph outwash boundary threshold. 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.
Noise.
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.
Fire safety.
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.
“Noise, fire, outwash, cost — these aren’t engineering curiosities. They’re the reason vertiports aren’t being built. Aeroberm addresses all four.” — Clem Newton-Brown
The Science Behind the System
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.
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.
