Simon Thompson has joined Windracers Group, the low-price platform for self sustaining air transport, in a brand novel goal as Group Chief Govt Officer. He’ll firstly assign focal level on product R&D, fundraising & world boost of the firm.
Windracers used to be founded in 2017 with a clear mission of utilizing self-flying low-price drones to bring humanitarian abet to some distance off communities. The imaginative and prescient of bringing prosperity to of us that need it lives on right this moment.
Its ULTRA UAV – a grand, twin-engine fastened-soar plane with a 10-metre wingspan – can take off, soar and land safely with out the necessity of a some distance off pilot due to its proprietary Masterless autopilot intention. The multi-reason drone can raise 100 kg as much as 1000 km, with choices ranging from the start of parcels and clinical provides to humanitarian abet and the detection of wooded space fires.
Simon Thompson, incoming Group CEO of Windracers, acknowledged: “I’m pleased to be joining this reducing-edge British expertise industry based in Southampton. Windracers is the low-price champion of self sustaining aviation and we’re no doubt thoroughly positioned to take this functionality world. There may be phenomenal to develop, however the hot work with the Royal Navy and British Antarctic Gape are a clear demonstration of the firm’s worthy doable to succor many industry sectors across the sector.”
Stephen Wright, Founder & Govt Chairman of Windracers added “We are absorbing about making self-flying plane life like, trusty and an every day fact. Simon’s background in building buyer benefiting expertise, deep logistics expertise and ride as a FTSE CEO may be actually handy in supporting our mission of taking Windracers’ self sustaining drone platform world.”
Simon’s digital expertise constructed at companies equivalent to Apple & lastminute.com mixed with his deep logistics expertise from Ocado PLC & Royal Mail will provide actually handy perception to an already proficient team.
Windracers no longer too prolonged ago expanded into North The US, launching the sector’s first AI center absorbing about self sustaining aviation with the esteemed Purdue University in Indiana. The heart, named AIDA3, is aimed toward realizing the stout transformational doable of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) and linked technologies by guaranteeing self-flying plane is possibly operated efficiently and at scale. The firm’s ULTRA UAV has executed its first flights within the united states with Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval.
Windracers gives alternate choices across 5 sectors: Mail & Parcel, Humanitarian Help, Medical, Defence and Environmental Protection. It has already executed successful flight trials with Royal Mail, Royal Navy, MOD, British Antarctic Gape and Future Flight be troubled for UK Be taught and Innovation (UKRI).
