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A 911 call comes in. The paramedic does not get in an ambulance. They take off vertically from a field and flies to the patient. This happened in Hyde County, North Carolina and on one call the paramedic landed roughly 20 minutes before the ambulance. The aircraft is a pivotal EV toll, the single seat machine called the Black Fly. Eight electric motors on two stacked wings and no tail rotor at all. It lifts off, nose up, then the whole airframe tilts over and flies on its wings, which is what stretches the battery. Empty weight is under 350 pounds. Cruise is about 62 miles an hour. Practical range is around 20 miles or 20 minutes in the air with reserve. One seat means it cannot carry a patient. It carries treatment to the patient. Flight medic Quinn Reese flew it and worked the scene alone with a cardiac monitor, airway gear and a response bag. Now, why here? Hyde County is about 1,459 square miles, more than half water, under 5,000 people, and no hospital since 2014. Swamp, a big lake and an island mean the ambulance often drives the long way round. Normally this class of aircraft is a part 103 ultralight, no license needed, meant for recreation. These flights ran under public aircraft operations, the rules for government aviation, after more than 300 training sorties, so the honest read is narrow. It gets a responder there faster. Moving the patient still needs a helicopter, and weather and battery decide whether it flies at all.

A 911 call comes in. The paramedic does not get in an ambulance. They take off vertically from a field and flies to the patient. This happened in Hyde County,…