Mr. Mark McElhaney, Director of Sales and Marketing for Aviation Safety Resources (ASR) stated that ASR began in 2018, and that they knew they’d have to scale and as they got into it, this and Pioneer Aerospace became available, the engineering firm they have in Connecticut. It is a world class manufacturing facility of 160,000 square feet in Mississippi as well as the group that’s down in Milton FL, and he saw it as a perfect fit.
Over the past few months, things happened very quickly, so they went immediately into the process, and everybody’s hard work just came together. Mr. McElhaney stated that “what this is going to afford for aviation safety resources, is the fact that we’ve got that engineering group, we’ve got the manufacturing thing, from a scaling side, we’re now positioned to meet the growing needs of the safety systems across the entire industry.”
Besides general aviation, ASR has been looking into the vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) market, particularly over the last 18 months, with specific goals, towards lighter weight, lower volume, less volume, less cost, and from a VTOL perspective, he knew that they “had to have a platform for a parachute, with no forward speed, so we’ve been working very hard. We’ve been successful with that, with no forward speed, we're seeing recoveries down around 250 feet, and this engineering…from Pioneer Aerospace for the manufacturing, is just going to be a game changer for us.”
Mr. McElhaney further added that “the reasons that we as a company wanted to get involved in the parachute market, when we were having that emerging VTOL/eVTOL market coming into play, we knew there could be no forward speed, little or no forward speed, and that a recovery at several hundred to hundreds and hundreds of feet upwards of 1000ft wasn’t going to work. So that’s why we had put our mindset forward with the engineering to manufacture and design a product that was going to require little or no forward speed and offer that recovery time for this market.
In terms of the future of ASR, with the acquisition of Pioneer Aerospace and Strong, they now have five U.S.-based locations. ASR Pioneer, the new brand name, will produce leading edge technologies to support parachutes for aircraft defense space the AAM/UAM markets, both now and in the future. Mr McElhaney concluded “we want everyone to have a parachute, and we hope that you never have to use it”.
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