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Horizon Aircraft Appoints Phil Kelly as Senior VP Business Development

Hori­zon Air­craft has appoint­ed Phil Kel­ly as its Senior Vice Pres­i­dent of Busi­ness Devel­op­ment, reports a press release.

Kelly’s career in aero­space “spans four decades, from his strike fight­er expe­ri­ence in fly­ing Sea Har­ri­er FA2 and Har­ri­er GR7/9A air­craft, to his last role as Head Car­ri­er Strike and Mar­itime Avi­a­tion in the Devel­op direc­torate of NCHQ, where he led air­craft devel­op­ment for the UK Roy­al Navy and Roy­al Marines,” explains the release.

He has 25 years’ expe­ri­ence of fly­ing mil­i­tary air­craft, includ­ing the Har­ri­er Jump Jet, and brings invalu­able first-hand oper­a­tional insight to the Hori­zon Air­craft team.  

His in-depth knowl­edge of VTOL air­craft and new tech­nolo­gies, great­ly enhances the company’s devel­op­ment path ahead of the launch of its Cavorite X7, a manned sev­en-seat hybrid elec­tric eVTOL, includ­ing the pilot.

Bran­don Robin­son, CEO of Hori­zon Air­craft, com­ment­ed, “Phil is a fan­tas­tic addi­tion to our team.  His career fly­ing mil­i­tary fight­er jets speaks for itself, and his per­son­al expe­ri­ence of fly­ing mil­i­tary VTOLs will be invalu­able as we con­tin­ue with the devel­op­ment and test­ing of our Cavorite X7 air­craft.” 

He con­tin­ued, “Phil’s for­mer roles as head of air­craft devel­op­ment in the UK Roy­al Navy and Roy­al Marines will help us to iden­ti­fy new oppor­tu­ni­ties around future col­lab­o­ra­tion and rev­enue gen­er­a­tion.”

Kel­ly remarked, “Hori­zon Air­craft is unique. After a decade of devel­op­ing, upgrad­ing, and intro­duc­ing VTOL air­craft into ser­vice with the Roy­al Navy from F‑35B to heli­copters, I was look­ing to use my expe­ri­ence and found that in Hori­zon Air­craft, which has a tru­ly inno­v­a­tive and tech­no­log­i­cal­ly sound approach.”

He added, “The Cavorite X7 is an excep­tion­al air­craft and will trans­form sec­tors from region­al mobil­i­ty to med­ical ser­vices at range.  It is an excit­ing time to join the team at Hori­zon, as flight test­ing is well under­way.”

The com­pa­ny con­tin­ues to tri­al its 50 per­cent-scale air­craft which it believes will reduce tech­ni­cal risk, mov­ing for­ward towards a full-scale rep­re­sen­ta­tion. 

For more infor­ma­tion

www.horizonaircraft.com

(Top image: Hori­zon Air­craft)

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