Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) are crucial for providing rapid medical response, especially in situations where ground transport is too slow or inaccessible. HEMS plays a vital role in saving lives by quickly reaching accident scenes, transporting critically ill patients, and ensuring timely medical interventions. It is particularly essential in rural, mountainous, or congested urban areas where rapid evacuation can make the difference between life and death.

Current HEMS aircraft are existing helicopters retrofitted for medical missions. While highly capable, they have design drawbacks that limit their effectiveness, such as limited cabin space, noise and vibration issues, performance limitations (in hot-and-high conditions or adverse weather), range constraints, operating and maintenance costs, safety concerns and environmental constraints (e.g. noise levels).

The aim of this project is to design the perfect rotorcraft for HEMS operations, providing optimised cabin layout for medical operations, enhance safety features, performance improvements, noise and vibration reduction, cost and maintenance efficiency and all-weather operations.