Proof it's real
The people whose job it is to trust this, already do.
Statistics make the case for why. The program below makes the case that it actually works.
N924LQ — first aircraft in service, Hyde County
This summer in Hyde County, North Carolina, a flight-trained paramedic flew herself to live 911 calls, arriving up to 20 minutes ahead of the ground ambulance... believed to be a national first. The proof of concept ran April 15 to August 1 and is complete. Akute Networks is the 501(c)(3) building the public operating system for autonomous flight, and the pilot proved the model that comes next.
In dense cities, help usually arrives in time. Across rural America, the same emergency can sit twenty minutes from care — and for two of the most survivable emergencies out there, that gap is the difference between life and death.
Sources: Sudden Cardiac Arrest Aware, LACFD, American Heart Association.
Statistics make the case for why. The program below makes the case that it actually works.
A sheriff, a state regulator, a private EMS operator, and the clinicians who'd actually fly it — all pointed at the same program.
Deputy Sheriff overseeing combined Public Safety and EMS for Hyde County. Has asked the North Carolina legislature to invest in the program.
State EMS leadership publicly featured the program at North Carolina's annual EMS conference, alongside other next-generation EMS technology.
Private EMS readiness and equipment partner that ran alongside the Hyde County pilot end to end.
County paramedics trained and flew under the program themselves, the clearest vote of confidence a clinician can give.
$5M takes the model from a single proving ground to a multi-county network with a real command center and training pipeline.
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Foundations and major donors fund the aircraft, standards, and operating model the market won't build on its own.
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