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By Ross Wilkers   The Air Force’s former chief weapons buyer has been tapped to lead the commercial drone maker Volansi as CEO just four months after joining Volansi’s board of directors. Will Roper, a champion of modernization and rapid software development for the Air Force, will oversee Volansi’s push to further expand its offerings of autonomous vertical takeoff-and-landing delivery vehicles for medium and heavy-weight payloads, the company said July 8. The San Francisco-headquartered company was founded in 2015 and its primary investors are Lightspeed Venture Partners and Icon Ven...

British Company Aeralis Developing A Modular Jet Trainer Supported By The Royal Air Force British Company Aeralis Developing A Modular Jet Trainer Supported By The Royal Air Force A rendering of the different configurations of the design being developed by Aeralis in flight over the White Cliffs of Dover. (Image: Aeralis) Aeralis project, supported through the Rapid Capabilities Office, revolves around a common fuselage with interchangeable engines and wings. The British company Aeralis has been awarded last month a three-year contract by the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence to continue the...

Thales, Aeralis to Develop Advanced Modular Training Aircraft Simulator Our Bureau 1827 Thales UK and Aeralis have entered into a Teaming Agreement to develop transformational AERALIS platforms. The development from Thales will take place alongside AERALIS’ contract with the RAF’s Rapid Capabilities Office to deliver research & development of an Advanced Modular Aircraft system. Aeralis is focusing on a UK-based development and production programme of a modular, and commercially driven aircraft system aimed at increasing capability whilst reducing through-life costs for customers. As t...

For a Defence Industrial Strategy to be impactful, it must engender an industrial base that is every bit as adaptive as the Armed Forces need to be, a...

By Craig Hoyle2021-03-09T09:07:00+00:00 Buoyed by a recent high-profile investment from the UK Royal Air Force (RAF), and with additional backing now being sought via its latest funding drive, modular training aircraft developer Aeralis is aiming to take its concept to pre-production flying status before the middle of the decade. In mid-February, the company secured a three-year funding commitment from the RAF’s Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO), supporting its research and development activities. This was followed by an early March announcement of a formal teaming agreement with Thales Tra...