Company founder Jay Godsall said he’s awaiting the final go-ahead from the former Royal Canadian Air Force personnel on his staff before attempting a promotional cross-Canada flight in 2017 from the company’s base at the Brantford Airport to the Northwest Territories via Northern Ontario.
Since 2006, the company has been developing a blimp-like hybrid aircraft that combines a bush plane fuselage with a helium-filled overhead wing, widened to accommodate solar panels.
The company has been making inroads into Africa with a strategy to partner with business networks and freight movers on that continent to deliver relief supplies and cargo to remote communities in East and Central Africa.
Godsall wants to use Africa as a test bed and stepping stone to eventually do the same in Ontario’s and Canada’s Far North.
“As you know, there is a big difference between RCAF culture and entrepreneur culture. In the case of flying this summer to Yellowknife, the RCAF culture will win,” said Godsall in an emailed reply. “If the aircraft is given the green light to go north, it will.
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