the
company
Management
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Patrick Peebles,
Director
US-born inventor and technical director of the FanWing project,
Pat is self-educated in physics and aeronautics and previously specialised in
electronic inventions. He was for some years
international area manager for a US-based company before making a full-time commitment to the FanWing. |
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Dikla Peebles, Director Dikla, British, a writer
and for many years a teacher, founded the FanWing Company in 1999. Educated at
York and Cambridge Universities and with a background of event and project
management in both technology and the arts, she is director of PR and principal
fundraiser |
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Gareth Jenkins, Director
Formerly administrator and
educator in economic theory, policy and development, Gareth was for
several years advisor and a US liaison for the FanWing Company. Educated at Swarthmore and Harvard and for
many years resident in Europe, he now lives in New Mexico, US. |
Advisors
Robert L. Barry, USA Amb. (ret.); Michael Bednall, Aerospace Consultant; Ross Bradley, former CEO, Strata, Mubadala ; Andrew Chadwick, Business Development Manager, Frazer Nash; Professor JMR Graham (ret.), Imperial College; Simon Hudson, Director, Tavistock Communications; Dr Ray Kingcombe, Head of Technology, Aerospace and Marine Defence, BIS, UK; Rawle Michelson, MD, Ferghana Partners; Creighton B. Murch, President & Director, Maynard H. Murch Co. Inc; Cmdr Patrick Tyrrell, CEO, Vale Atlantic; Prof. Ir. James Wing Ho Wong, CEO, Allied Science and Technology Limited, Hong Kong.
Objectives
Predicted markets will be in unmanned aircraft (UAVs) for surface or ground-penetrating pipeline, border, urban or other civil surveillance roles, minesweeping, fire-watch, coastal survey, crop spray etc. Subsequent exploitation will be in manned ultralights. Finally, as a quiet, mid-speed, short/vertical take-off-and-landing heavylift manned ‘Sky Truck’ application the FanWing will provide safe and simple short-haul emergency rescue over water and difficult terrain, fire-fighting, and low-emissions low-cost freight and commuter transport.
Awards and
Nominations
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FanWing inventor Pat Peebles won the 2001 InterEx International Experimental Aircraft Award For Best New Propulsion System. In 2003 he won the Edward De Bono ‘Thinking’ Prize in the Saatchi & Saatchi International Awards for ‘World Changing Ideas’. He received award nominations from the Royal Aeronautical Society (2001), and the international World Technology Network for Ideas Most Likely to Influence the Future (2004). The FanWing was selected for the 2004 New York Times Ideas of the Year. The FanWing Company received two SMART UK Government grant Awards (2002 & 2003) and a London Development Agency JumpStart Connect Award. (2005) Oliver
Ahad's Imperial College
FanWing Computer Simulation Project
Dissertation based on Pat
Peebles' FanWing Ultralight designs and specifications won the 2006 Association
of Aerospace Universities National
John Barnes Award.
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and what they say...
One of the few truly new aircraft since the Wright
Brothers
Clive Thompson, New York Times
It
looks like a lawnmower, was designed in a kitchen, but it could revolutionise
aviation Charles Arthur,
The Independent
Peebles has hit on that rare thing: a new way of flying Newsweek
International
It may be that the FanWing becomes as common as the
helicopter
Tim Robinson, News Editor, The
Royal Aeronautical Society, Aerospace International
FanWing proves innovation is alive
Paul Jackson, Jane’s & Aviation Week
Many people have tried and failed - the fact remains that it works
Professor JMR
Graham, Aeronautics Department, Imperial College, London
Patrick Peebles may have devised one of the most striking
innovations in aircraft propulsion since Frank Whittle invented the jet engine
almost sixty years ago
Thomas
Withington, RAF
Defence Journal
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