Skyryse

Skyryse is excited to announce the expansion of our team into a new, additional facility in El Segundo, CA. The new facility will support our growing operations, enhancing our ability to expand our SkyOS flight management system to other aircraft, while also accelerating the path to certification and delivery of our inaugural aircraft, The Skyryse One. Our team welcomed Drew Boyles, Mayor of El Segundo to the opening ribbon cutting this past week. "Skyryse's decision to grow in El Segundo reaffirms our city's status as a hub for innovation, a leader in the aviation industry, and the most important five square miles in Southern California," said Mayor Boyles. "We are thrilled to support Skyryse in their journey and look forward to their continued success and growth." The location is across the street from our official headquarters and underscores our commitment to transforming the future of aviation, making flight safer and more accessible for everyone.

If you will be attending AirVenture and would like to experience the SkyOS flight management system, please sign up below.

Our team is excited to be attending AirVenture this year. The show will mark the in-person public debut of our Skyryse One™ helicopter, the world's first production aircraft operated with just a single control stick and two touch screens. Interested in experiencing it firsthand? Our team will be offering a select number of demos in our conforming simulator. You can request a demo by signing up in advance here: https://lnkd.in/gT9HsRAE

We're hiring talented Electrical Engineers to join the Skyryse team! This is an exciting opportunity to transform the future of general aviation. Message me for more details, and check out our careers page to see all our open roles: https://lnkd.in/gC762cSx 🚁✈️

Take a walk with us through the Skyryse offices. Interested in joining our team and working with us? Check out our career page for our current openings: https://lnkd.in/eem7M5v

Flying airplanes is too complicated. Here's how Skyryse is changing that. Technology has simplified so much in our lives, but helicopters and airplanes remain massively complicated to operate. This technology gap has caused a barrier to entry for aspiring pilots, and is a causal factor in many aviation accidents. Skyryse created SkyOS to make flying any aircraft more simple and more safe. To aid the pilot in their decision-making and condense countless instruments, dials, and mechanisms into two touchscreen interfaces. The above video offers some insight into our company journey: how we started, what we've created, and where we're going. In 2017, Skyryse flew the first full-scale unmanned VTOL and debuted a 4-axis control stick in simulation. In 2019, we performed an automated helicopter hover. And have evolved this technology to "Hover Assist", which lets pilots take off and remain in a constant hover without using pedals or flight controls. In 2020, Skyryse introduced a touchscreen interface to make flying by your fingertips as intuitive as manipulating flight controls by hand. In 2023, we demonstrated the world's first fully-automated helicopter autorotation all the way down to the ground, a feature never seen in general aviation and is sure to save countless lives. Now in 2024, we have unveiled Skyryse One, the first production aircraft powered entirely by SkyOS. With two touch screen interfaces and a single joystick, Skyryse One is the first completely modern helicopter. While we are excited about the Skyryse One, this is just the beginning for our company. SkyOS can power any helicopter, airplane, or aircraft of the future. It is truly a universal operating system that we believe will revolutionize and advance the safety of general aviation. Want to join us on our mission to make all of flying more simple and safe? Follow us here on LinkedIn to see new roles as they open!

Check out this new podcast (on Apple and Spotify) from investor and venture capitalist Patrick O’Shaughnessy which features CEO Mark Groden, PhD of our portfolio company, Skyryse. In the podcast, Mark explains how Skyryse is working to make general aviation as safe as commercial aviation and driving aviation deaths down to zero. https://lnkd.in/diRN539T 

Have a listen to our CEO Mark Groden, PhD on the Invest Like The Best podcast with Patrick O’Shaughnessy, chatting about our mission to make aviation simpler and safer, and how we’re bringing our universal operating system for flight, SkyOS, to life in our first aircraft – the Skyryse One: https://lnkd.in/g89bG9eM

Have a listen to our CEO Mark Groden, PhD on the Invest Like The Best podcast with Patrick O’Shaughnessy, chatting about our mission to make aviation simpler and safer, and how we’re bringing our universal operating system for flight, SkyOS, to life in our first aircraft – the Skyryse One: https://lnkd.in/g89bG9eM

In the wake of yesterday’s crash that killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, let’s take a minute to talk about helicopter safety. While we don’t yet know exactly what caused the accident, as someone who’s spent my entire career working to make aviation simpler and safer, I know one thing that likely made this particular flight much more dangerous. Iranian state media have reported that the helicopter that crashed in Iran on Sunday in mountain fog – killing the country's president, foreign minister, and seven others –  was a Bell 212. A small number of Bell 212s – a twin-engine derivative of the Bell 205 Iroquois/Huey – were supplied to Iran prior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution and at least two of them were converted to carry government leaders as part of the VIP Transport Squadron of the Iranian Air Force. The most important issue was likely the conditions. News reports indicate that the weather was foggy, massively cutting into visibility. Although the Bell 212 could be optioned with an Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) package, a few news outlets have noted that it’s highly likely this particular Bell 212 didn’t have an IFR upgrade. That means that, unlike our IFR-capable Skyryse One, it could only be flown under what are called Visual Flight Rules (VFR), where the weather conditions are clear enough to see the aircraft’s path. If news reports are correct on both weather and capability, the helicopter should not have been flying.