About UsChris Silva, President, Co-founder
Chris has over 15 years of professional design and testing experience in aerospace and nuclear engineering fields. Since the late 1990's he has designed and built a number of radio control models and UAVs, including Altostratus, presently on display at Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center, and Lecurus, holder of several US records for electric powered sailplanes. Chris has led conceptual design teams examining a wide-range of VTOL concepts across a variety of civil and military missions. Recent work has focused on identifying the feasibility and key technologies for VTOL on-demand mobility aircraft. Chris holds a Master's and Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering from UCLA.
Jeff Sinsay, Chief Engineer, Co-founder
Jeff has 15 years of experience performing conceptual aircraft design of military and civil fixed wing, rotorcraft, and VTOL aircraft ranging in size from small UAVs to large intratheater transport aircraft. He has provide expert advice to individuals at DARPA, NASA, the U.S. military, and private companies regarding design trade-offs related to technological risk, vehicle performance specification and cost. His research includes development of advanced methods for vehicle conceptual design and optimization using higher fidelity analyses tools, electric rotorcraft conceptual design for interurban mass transit, and design metrics for developing cruise efficient tiltrotor concepts. Jeff holds a Master's degree in Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering from UCLA. He was recognized in 2010 by AHS International with the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Award for his career-to-date outstanding contributions to vertical flight technology.