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Road to Deployment: Chapter 3 - Integration to Hops The team moves from ground checks to fitting the wings and tails, bringing the next Skyways aircraft together. Flight teaches us that a clean fit on the ground does not tell the whole story. Parts can move into contact in flight, making clearance and alignment essential. Follow the first aircraft of the fleet, from build to deployment.

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

Drew Talley, Skyways' Head of Flight Operations, has been named to the Unmanned Safety Institute's first Industry Advisory Board. USI has spent more than a decade training thousands of students for the UAS workforce. Its twelve inaugural board members will help keep that training aligned with what employers need and what operators encounter on the job. Drew brings experience from the U.S. Army and years of UAS operations over pipelines and energy infrastructure. He joined Skyways as a Senior Flight Operator last November and was leading the department by June. Skyways has been flying autonomously since 2017. Its in-house flight-operations software, SkyNav, is built so a single operator can supervise many aircraft at once. Operators run every mission through it, complete a checklist before each flight, and make the decision to launch. Drew hires and leads the operators this training is designed to prepare. He'll bring that experience to USI's board. Congratulations, Drew Talley.

Fleet performance rides on many things. Even something as simple as a pre-work level. UAV Mechanic, Wali Hassan, received the aircraft for routine service and is preparing the vehicle for motor mount installations. The lift motors take their orientation from the airframe, so before any motor goes on, the airframe has to sit dead level. Get that wrong and the aircraft leaves the ground canted, and pays the price at both ends of every flight. Wali gave it the whole morning. Skyways builds these aircraft and operates them. A degree saved on the shop floor comes back as a straight climb on every mission after. Our technicians and mechanics are the lifeblood of Skyways, ready to meet the demand. Simple is not the same as small.

Welcome to Skyways Flight Fridays. Not a render. Not a promise. We are flying today. 3,200+ flights 694+ flight hours 61,000+ kilometers Enjoy footage from our flight testing facility just outside Austin, Texas.

Times Square is the last place that needs better logistics. Everything arrives. Constantly. On time. We're built for the other places. The Navy vessel needing resupply. The island medic awaiting blood. The site with no runway and no time to spare. Thanks @tryramp. Let's GO.

Japan's remote islands wait too long for everyday essentials. Skyways and @FlyANA_official are changing that. Long-range autonomous aircraft. Hybrid-VTOL. Repeatable missions, island to island. No ship wait, at dramatically less cost than airplanes or helicopters. Operational today. 90 kilometers of open Pacific is no longer an issue. It's a route. Link in the comments. #AutonomousAviation #BVLOS #CargoUAV #Skyways