We are creating a new form of transportation to advance the future of our civilization. Our story starts with fully autonomous, unmanned aerial vehicles.
Austin, TX
Joined February 2021
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Skyways retweeted
@skyways is hiring a Flight Test Operator to join the team flight testing V3, our fully autonomous hybrid-electric VTOL with a maximum range of well over 1,000 miles and a maximum endurance of nearly 20 hours.
Onsite in Austin, Texas.
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Skyways retweeted
We're hiring a Director of Hardware at @skyways!
@skyways builds and flies fully autonomous long range cargo aircraft. Our V2 fleet flies revenue missions for commercial customers around the world. Our V3 is in active flight test, with a maximum range of well over 1,000 miles, a maximum useful load of 100 lbs, and a maximum endurance of nearly 20 hours.
Now we're taking V3 from prototype into full rate production, and we need a leader to own the hardware that makes it fly.
What you'll own:
- Aircraft hardware across structures, avionics, power, and integration
- Leading and growing the hardware engineering team
- The critical design calls: design reviews, trade studies, system integration
- The path from prototype to production, built for manufacturability and reliability
- The loop between design, the production floor, and the flight line
About You:
You've led engineers across more than one hardware discipline and taken flight hardware or other weight critical, regulated hardware into production. You stay close to the design work, and you're at the flight line when something breaks.
The Good Stuff:
- $175K to $250K base plus equity
- Onsite in Austin
- Backed by Y Combinator and a $37M AFWERX STRATFI award from the U.S. Air Force
- U.S. person required (export control)
If that's you, or someone you've worked with, DM me or apply here:
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Skyways retweeted
Austin-based Skyways builds pilotless cargo aircraft that lift off on four electric rotors and cruise on a jet-fuel engine, carrying 30 pounds up to 450 miles. We break down how the hybrid system works, where it is already flying, from Navy destroyers to Baltic wind farms and Okinawa's islands, and what still holds it back.
Skyways retweeted
This autonomous aircraft can already fly from Texas to Canada (if not much longer). Angel invested in @skyways early on and it’s been amazing to see the progress! LFG
Every Skyways aircraft is shaped by the mission. Every single spec the direct result of an operational requirement, failure, or friction point from 9 years and 3,550+ missions.
Now the next form is taking shape.
This series will take you on the journey to deploy the first of a fleet.
Chapter 1: Building Blocks: In Austin, the team gets to work.
Nothing on this aircraft was guessed. Everything has been earned.
#Deployment #Aviation #Aerospace #NewPlatform
Skyways retweeted
Our new aircraft is being unveiled. Years in the making. Years of flight testing across 3 generations of V3 alone. All leveraging everything we’ve learned flying V2 with our customers on 3 continents, with the same avionics and software that we know works.
It will be one of the most capable unmanned aircraft on the planet, if not the most.
Every Skyways aircraft is shaped by the mission. Every single spec the direct result of an operational requirement, failure, or friction point from 9 years and 3,550+ missions.
Now the next form is taking shape.
This series will take you on the journey to deploy the first of a fleet.
Chapter 1: Building Blocks: In Austin, the team gets to work.
Nothing on this aircraft was guessed. Everything has been earned.
#Deployment #Aviation #Aerospace #NewPlatform
Skyways retweeted
I think cargo drones get way more interesting the moment the customer stops being another drone company / defense demo and becomes a boring logistics giant.
DSV is putting @skyways autonomous aircraft into offshore logistics in the North Sea this fall.
and the architecture is almost the opposite of the tiny battery-delivery-drone direction:
V2:
450 mile range
~8 hour endurance
30 lb payload
Jet A-1 / JP-5
V3 in testing:
1,000+ mile range
~20 hour endurance
100 lb payload
basically a small autonomous airplane optimized around the question:
what cargo is expensive enough to move that sending an aircraft is cheaper than waiting for a ship/helicopter/truck?
offshore wind + oil rigs are such a good proving ground for this.
A €300 replacement part can hold up equipment worth millions, while the destination is literally sitting in the ocean.
And I really like the deployment model here: Skyways supplies aircraft + autonomy + training + maintenance support. DSV supplies local flight staff and works the regulatory problem.
That's probably how autonomous aviation actually scales.
not “remove every human.”
make one human capable of operating an absurd amount of aviation.
ALT #AutonomousAviation #CargoDrones #AutonomousAircraft #UAVs #DroneLogistics #OffshoreLogistics #MiddleMile #FlightAutonomy #AutonomousLogistics #AviationTech
Skyways retweeted
Found this while I was looking for some old files. Unedited videos straight from the Skyways archives showing what it looks like in the real world. Big difference compared to staged demos in the lab. Fully autonomous, all computer vision, no beacon. Good luck to anyone in our space, this stuff is hard.
