SkyLifter Overview

What are SkyLifters?

SKYLIFTERS ARE SOLAR-ELECTRIC AIR-CRANES

  • Lifting heavier, faster, higher, with less cost and no pollution.

  • Enabling green logistics by:

    • overcoming the limitations of land-crane access.

    • exceeding all helicopter payload capabilities.

  • Smart marriage of maritime and aerospace engineering.

  • High-margin returns for operators. Lower costs for end users.

  • Our team is now seeking further investment and partnerships to bring SkyLifters to market.

To Boldly Go Green

  • Vision

    Be green in the sky

    • Sustainable, solar-electric, endless floating.

    • Air-crane lifting solutions primarily for construction.

  • Business case

    Working to

    • Satisfy increasing market demand for lifting and decarbonised flight.

    • Deliver high ROI for investors.

    • Provide an ESG Impact investment, with a sense of purpose and value.

  • What's New

    Step-change in eVTOL design

    • R&D breakthroughs in handling and ConOps.

    • Flight with Zero emissions.

    • Lifting more than any helicopter.

    • Higher hook than any land crane.

    • Faster set-up and budget-friendly operating cost.

Highlights

What is the fuss about?

Opportunity – The world needs to move big things – lifting and carrying.

  • For lifting, large land cranes have physical access and height limits, and helicopters max-out at 20 tonnes.

  • For carrying, ships cannot go over land, trucks and trains need established pathways and aircraft need serviced airports.

  • All current methods cause pollution. Companies want to de-carbonise their supply chain.

  • And there is simply more demand than supply, so economic growth is restricted.

  • Solution – lighter-than-air (airships and aerostatic) technology promises a solution to all the problems stated above. We have discovered how to harness the technology and make it practical to adopt. We know how to build a better solution for lifting and carrying.

  • Product – UNIQUE. The SkyLifter is a flying crane, lifting payloads beyond helicopters, with endless endurance hover. Safe, green, easy to use, and easy to adopt with very low thru-life costs, making them highly attractive business cases for Operators and End users.

  • Team – we are an experienced team of professionals, yet our approach to aerospace is uncommon. That will be obvious when you meet us. See some of our faces below.

  • GREEN – creating genuinely sustainable alternatives for flight. This is our WHY and will be our legacy.

  • Next steps – seeking financial partners to help us grow, and collaborations with entrepreneurial suppliers and early-adopting customers.

Vision & USP

…the BIG picture

Endeavour: SkyLifter is developing break-through technology that will enable people to overcome the current physical and economic limits of sustainable access to the sky. Our aim is safe, endless flight, with no emissions, and delivered for less cost than land-based options.

  • Result: Enabling the portability of real-estate assets will be the IMPACT of our investment. People will be able to build in the sky and move their home/office/factory/warehouse/plant/shop/palace/museum/hospital/school to any locations they desire, potentially never landing. What goes up no longer has to come down.

  • Focus: Required capitalisation (to initial ROI) is in the tens of millions. We focus these investments only on the most unique capability of the technology; air-lifting heavy things, as illustrated in the graphic below. By delivering this as a solid commercial business case for customers, SkyLifter investors will see massive returns.

Customer Value

Business case for lifting

The graphic below shows the:

  • 3 top reasons for customers to use air-cranes over using land-cranes, and

  • 3 top reasons for operators to use SkyLifters over helicopters.

Product

Primary Features

  • Power: Solar primary power (renewable and quiet)

  • Range: Endless floating endurance

  • Payload: 2/25/250 tonnes

  • Control: Single pilot, optionally on-board

  • Overall: Safe, stable and weather capable

  • Certification & compliance: Engagement with safety authorities for Means of Compliance.

R&D and Prototypes

Making & Testing

  • Independent CAD verification of concept

  • Lab R/C model

  • R&D of real-size tethered prototype

  • Break-throughs concept of operations

Next steps

  • Full size capability demostrator (scale-up the prototypes)

  • Capital injection to production (pump-prime development to market)

  • Manage risk and IP

  • Hire more great people

  • Do activity plan

TEAM

Key technical people are listed here, comprising an internationally flexible team complemented with an advisory Board spanning the required disciplines to deliver on the business goals.

  • Jeremy Fitton

    CEO & Director

    Founder with 35 year track record of business development in Digital, Circular Economy and Air Mobility. Formerly serving Microsoft, Acer, L3Harris and others in EMEA and Oceania.

    Jeremy’s strengths are; Connectedness, Maximiser, Self Assurance, Arranger, and Learner; five essential qualities for entrepreneurs.

  • Agnar Nielsen

    CTO & Director

    Agnar’s experience covers senior contractual, commercial and technical responsibility primarily within aerospace and wind turbine industries.

    With a Masters in helicopter geo-stationary control systems, Agnar will lead the product team.

  • Brian Phillipson

    COO

    Formerly CTO at Lilium (the air-mobility start-up partnering with SAUDIA Airlines for 100 units of their passenger aircraft), Brian is a senior executive with Approved Head of Design, Flight Test and Production Organisation qualifications.

  • Christopher Clement Davies

    Chairman & General Counsel

    Christopher is an internationally-renowned lawyer specialising in energy and infrastructure, project development and finance.

    He has years of MENA experience, understanding regional needs and business practices.

  • Stuart Haycock

    Head of Production

    Stuart has hands-on experience of operating lighter-than-air systems in the Gulf region.

    He has manufactured hundreds of balloon systems including the innovative SkyLifter prototypes, manned parachute training balloons and EP evac slides for the airlines.

  • Luke Brooke

    Lighter-Than-Air Design Specialist

    Luke worked on major LTA project including Lockheed Martin’s hybrid airship, and high altitude balloons for NASA.

    He has specialist experience in stress and aerodynamics of large gas-filled devices.

  • Scott Vaughan

    Head of Office of Airworthiness (HOA)

    Scott holds executive and strategic responsibility for the certification and test flying programmes, as well as enabling SkyLifter to achieve Design Organisation Approval against EASA regulations.

  • Matt Powlson

    Head of Design Organisation (HDO)

    As a Chartered Engineer (IET) with 20 years of aircraft design and type airworthiness experience, Matt is very excited to integrate proven systems with the SkyLifter innovative design.

  • Nick Fothergill

    Head of Corporate Finance & Director

    Nick has a 20 year career in the City of London as a top ranked aerospace & defence equity analyst specialising in the global international investment banking including many years operating in the Gulf region.

  • David Taylor

    EMEA Business Development & Director

    David is a proven technology entrepreneur with a 30+ year track record. He specializes in the commercialisation of disruptive innovations with global opportunities that offer environmental benefits.

  • Erich K Schmid

    USA Business Development

    Erich has over 40 years of experience working with public and privately-held companies developing and implementing corporate growth strategies. He has B.S. and M.S degrees from The University of Akron and studied strategic planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Interested?

  • ome years ago we witnessed the market opportunities and started bootstrapping the SkyLifter project.

  • Now the demand for an environment-friendly aircraft is in the world’s eye.

  • The time is right to fast-track SkyLifters to market!

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