AeroGB – Delivering tomorrow’s capability today
The supplier of choice in airborne fixed-wing services for surveillance and surveying
On the 28th and 29th March, AeroGB held an Industry Event to demonstrate their aerial and ground capabilities in providing a managed service for the purposes of airborne surveillance and surveying using our fixed wing aircraft.
Supported by glorious weather the Invite Only event was attended by representatives of various law enforcement agencies and private sector clients from the UK and overseas. Those attending our hangar faciltiies at Biggin Hill had the opportunity to see at close range the Tecnam MMA aircraft as well as the Vulcanair P68VR thanks to Caseright the UK Vulcanair and Cirrus sales agents. Also on display were a Boeing Stearman bi-plane from 1932 to remind us of how far airframes have advanced in the past 80 years and a specially adapted Piper Aztec aircraft from Flying Scholarships for Disabled People, our corporate charity for 2012.
The industry Event included presentations from Graham James, our CEO, who outlined in more detail the airframes we use and services we provide, and from Mario Rathmanner, a data specialist representing one of our key strategic partners, Airborne Technologies from Austria, who showed how the various data outputs from the array of sensors available to us could be used to best effect.
These presentations were a key part of the proceedings but the lion-share was from a series of Live demonstrations when the Tecnam was flown on a live mission feeding RGB and thermal images back to a ground station set-up in a specially adapted Land Rover by another of our partners, Broadcast Networks. To demonstrate the Tecnam’s abilities in the air attendees were given the opportunity to fly alongside it in one of our other aircraft flown with considerable skill in close formation by our Chief Pilot, Steve Cooper. For many this was one of the highlights of that day as it was a unique opportunity to see the Tecnam deployed in surveillance mode from the air.
