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Earlier this month, members of the VTI Aerospace team came together in Colorado for some focused collaboration, strategy, and flight planning. The purpose? To align in advance of our upcoming presence at one of the world’s largest aviation gatherings, EAA AirVenture 2025 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. With team members spread across the country, opportunities to connect face-to-face are important and impactful. Colorado served as the perfect backdrop for high-altitude thinking and lo

Last week, VTI enjoyed the opportunity to share the company’s development progress at an FAA AI Safety Assurance Technical Exchange hosted by MITRE. In our presentation we covered not only how our technology could improve situational awareness for current pilots, but we also discussed the scalability of our development philosophy. Some common questions arose during and after our presentation, so we thought we’d continue the conversation here by responding to the most common t

At the end of 2023, we decided to update our logo to reflect the progress we've made. We hope the orange of the icon conveys our commitment to safety while the "chevron" motif evokes precision, flight, and "gateways" to safe journeys. Cheers!

In mid-November, VTI started a data collection campaign ('code named' Blue Horizons) with Western Michigan Aviation Academy (WMAA) and the support of the Ford Launchpad for Innovative Technologies and Entrepreneurship (FLITE). Nearly one month on from the start of the project, we are excited to share sample imagery from the automated data collection platform housed inside a SkyIMD sensor pod. The small sampling of images below demonstrate the rich variety of data that we've

In late Q3, VTI was awarded a Ford Launchpad for Innovative Technologies and Entrepreneurship (FLITE) grant to demonstrate scalable data collection for aircraft safety applications. The goal of the project, dubbed “Blue Horizons”, is to complement VTI’s synthetic data work with real flight data. We are happy to announce the start of our data campaign with Western Michigan Aviation Academy (WMAA)! Big thanks to FLITE and WMAA for enabling VTI to demonstrate this innovative ap

In our last post [ 1 ], we highlighted a challenging trend in aviation safety and the potential for on-aircraft perception technology to reduce safety gaps. Despite the near ubiquitous use of GPS and ADS-B technology in aviation, neither is considered foolproof. GPS outages are a real and growing concern [ 2 ]. ADS-B uses an insecure protocol that does not inherently protect against bad actors and is not yet universally required in the national airspace. Acknowledging these g

VTI was awarded a grant by the Ford Launchpad for Innovative Technologies and Entrepreneurship, or FLITE program. The funds will be used to deploy aircraft sensor pods to collect in-flight imagery, positional and traffic data through routine flight school operation. This project will provide flight data for advancing aviation safety-enhancing perception systems. The program is administered by Gerald R. Ford International Airport Authority, together with the Michigan Economic