Success Stories

Professor Iain Gray CBE appointed Knight Batchelor

Professor Iain Gray CBE, Director of Aerospace at Cranfield University, has been recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours 2023, appointed Knight Batchelor for services to the aerospace industry.  Iain spent his industry career at the highest levels in aerospace with roles at BAE Systems and Airbus. He became Director of Engineering, then Managing Director at…

National Highways reaches for the skies with new flight management system

National Highways has launched a new flight management system which will speed up processes for drone operators looking to fly near motorways or major A roads and improve safety through better co-ordination and visibility of flights. With the use of drones playing an increasing role in modern living, National Highways is introducing a new flight…

ALTITUDE ANGEL LAUNCH ALL-NEW DRONE ASSIST APP

UK’s flight planning app to relaunch with enhanced user experience and industry-ready flight planning tool set Altitude Angel’s developer platform is open and available to all at https://developers.altitudeangel.com Altitude Angel, the world’s most trusted UTM (Unified Traffic Management) technology provider, is to release a new and improved version of the UK’s most popular flight planning tool,…

Cyberhawk™ team up with Intelligent Energy to launch BVLOS operations using hydrogen fuel cell technology

Cyberhawk, world leader in visual data management, adopts Intelligent Energy’s IE-SOAR™ fuel cells to offer customers better quality data and increased operational efficiency. Cyberhawk delivers end-to-end capabilities to their customers around the globe spanning data collection, democratisation of imagery and operational insights via analytics. Over 5,000 project managers around the globe rely on their flagship software…

F1 specialist MGI Engineering launches autonomous cargo drones

MGI Engineering CEO Mike Gascoyne and one of the Mosquito drones (Credit: MGI Engineering) Formula One specialist MGI Engineering has revealed two cargo drone technology demonstrators, using its motorsport mindset to tackle challenges in the sector. The Mosquito UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) were unveiled by the Oxfordshire firm today (19 April) at the eVTOL Insights’ London Conference….

Stuart Keenan made Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society

We are pleased to announce that our previous Chair ARPAS-UK, Stuart Keenan, of ARPAS-UK Member Frazer-Nash Consultancy has recently been awarded the grade of Fellow by the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS), the highest grade attainable by the organisation. Stuart said, “It is a great honour to be recognised by the RAeS for my achievements, particularly around the excellent…

Lessons learnt by Consortiq on applying the SORA methodology

Andy Huggett and Chris Janes, Training Managers at Consortiq,  explained to us the basics of the SORA methodology, how it can be a very powerful tool for complex operations, and how new PDRAs, possibly following SORA, could be a good way forward for the not-so-complex operations.