Aviation expert joins Dufour Aerospace as lead engineer

Dufour Aero­space has appoint­ed Simon Ben­drey as a Lead Engi­neer, bring­ing sig­nif­i­cant indus­try knowl­edge to the Swiss VTOL start-up’s Project aEro.

Join­ing the busi­ness from Aero­mo­bil, where he was its Chief Engi­neer, Simon has more than two decades’ expe­ri­ence in avi­a­tion. He has worked on projects from the F35 to satel­lites and also brings exper­tise in design­ing, devel­op­ing and cer­ti­fy­ing var­i­ous cat­e­gories of air­craft.

Simon’s appoint­ment bol­sters the Dufour team, fol­low­ing the recent arrivals of Manuel Flepp and Karsten Fis­ch­er.

Dur­ing his career, Simon has held var­i­ous posi­tions start­ing in struc­tur­al analy­sis and design before becom­ing direc­tor of a num­ber of engi­neer­ing ser­vices com­pa­nies. In recent years, he has con­cen­trat­ed on the tech­ni­cal advance­ment of the PAV and eVTOL indus­tries and has held DOA sig­na­to­ry author­i­ty for a num­ber of com­pa­nies and prod­ucts.

A press release on Dufour Aero­space’s web­site said: “Simon’s knowl­edge and expe­ri­ence of end-to-end vehi­cle design, man­u­fac­ture and cer­ti­fi­ca­tion will be a great addi­tion to Dufour, and we warm­ly wel­come him as part of our grow­ing team.”