Trike Industries personnel have identified the need for a long range, high speed, hyper short take-off and landing (STOL) aircraft to support the DoD End Users in intense and time-demanding missions abroad. To address this problem, Trike is tackling the engineering of DracoX, a superior alternative to the use of expensive helicopters as transportation in overseas special operations and rescue missions. The original Draco is the worldâs first four-person jet turbine-powered aircraft to demonstrate hyper short take-off and landing (STOL) capabilities. With the Trike objective being to modify a commercially available airframe with technology previously developed for the world record-holding Draco and implement improvements to modify Draco into a militarized version known as DracoX, a HyperSTOL aircraft.
