Middle East: Honeywell, Odys Aviation “to Collaborate on Uncrewed Aircraft in Oman and Pacific”

Hon­ey­well and Odys Avi­a­tion, a devel­op­er of hybrid VTOL air­craft, have signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing (MOU) to col­lab­o­rate on the design of new Ground Con­trol Sta­tions to sup­port the roll­out of Odys’ air­craft in the Mid­dle East and Pacif­ic, reports a press release.

Under the MOU terms, Hon­ey­well is to pro­vide a Ground Con­trol Sta­tion for uncrewed aer­i­al sys­tem (UAS) oper­a­tions and sup­port Odys unmanned drone, named Laila. Tri­al pro­grams of the Con­trol Sta­tion are expect­ed to begin next year.

Laila is designed in mul­ti­ple con­fig­u­ra­tions and with a 230-mile range, is ide­al to sup­port pipeline inspec­tions, leak detec­tion, geo­log­i­cal sur­veys, mar­itime oper­a­tions and logis­tics ser­vices, includ­ing the deliv­ery of time-crit­i­cal goods.

Honeywell’s Ground Con­trol Sta­tion, which can be scaled to meet the needs of any VTOL plat­form, enables remote pilots to man­age mul­ti­ple vehi­cles simul­ta­ne­ous­ly, over long dis­tances, and with­out direct visu­al con­tact. 

In addi­tion, sev­er­al advanced automa­tion func­tion­al­i­ties such as traf­fic aware­ness, con­tin­gency man­age­ment, and ground-based detect-and-avoid, help reduce pilot work­load. These fea­tures increase the safe­ty and effi­cien­cy of unmanned drone oper­a­tions.

David Shill­i­day, VP of Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty at Hon­ey­well Aero­space Tech­nolo­gies, com­ment­ed,  “Our planned col­lab­o­ra­tion with Odys Avi­a­tion will rep­re­sent a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone, mov­ing our inno­v­a­tive solu­tions from test­ing to real-life sce­nar­ios.”

James Dor­ris, CEO and co-Founder of Odys Avi­a­tion, added, “Hon­ey­well shares our view that the key to com­mer­cial­is­ing new air­craft tech­nolo­gies and mov­ing from R&D to mar­ket lies in part­ner­ships. They have shown exten­sive lead­er­ship in the sus­tain­able avi­a­tion space, and we’re excit­ed to be work­ing hand-in-hand with their world-class team to deliv­er on the promise of advanced aero­space tech­nolo­gies as soon as next year.”

MIDDLE EAST: MWASALAT to devel­op aer­i­al logis­tics pro­grams with Odys Aviation’s hybrid-elec­tric VTOL Air­craft in Oman

Under the terms of the MOU, both com­pa­nies will work close­ly with MWASALAT, the Omani Nation­al Trans­porta­tion Com­pa­ny.

Bad­er AlNad­abi, CEO of MWASALAT, remarked, “Togeth­er with the proven expe­ri­ence of Hon­ey­well and the tech­no­log­i­cal inno­va­tion of Odys Avi­a­tion, Oman is lay­ing the ground­work to become a leader in this excit­ing new age of avi­a­tion.”

Back­ground

Odys Avi­a­tion was found­ed in 2019 and designs, devel­ops and man­u­fac­tures advanced VTOL air­craft “that solve glob­al chal­lenges for com­mer­cial air­lines and pri­vate oper­a­tors.” 

Based in Long Beach, Cal­i­for­nia with a design office in Munich, Ger­many, the com­pa­ny is pio­neer­ing the next gen­er­a­tion of VTOL air­craft which use hybrid-elec­tric propul­sion sys­tems.

For more infor­ma­tion

www.honeywell.com/us/en 

www.odysaviation.com

https://tickets.mwasalat.om/mtbp/en-gb/other/general-info

(Top image: Odys Avi­a­tion Car­go Drone)

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