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Your Wings This payoff highlights the strong connection between Blackshape and pilots. The reference is to the wings ceremony: the culmination and celebration of the intense training course carried out by all pilots worldwide up to feeling the vehicle as an extension of their body and the aircraft wings as their own wings, in order to reach the highest peaks. Blackshape is a leader company in the design and manufacturing of light aircraft and General Aviation, as well as in the development of high-level training systems for pilots. Established in 2010 by Luciano Belviso and Angelo...

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Blackshape Prime Blackshape Prime is the revolutionary two-seater ultralight aircraft conceived for the recreational market and for the high-performance enthusiasts: it combines quality, safety and the best flight performance with an elegant, refined and sporty design, thus reflecting the made in Italy brand. Awarded as Best Airplane in the world in 2013 (Ultralight category) by the prestigious Flieger Magazine Award, Prime is the result of an accurate handcrafted work using innovative materials: high-quality pre-preg carbon, which manufacturing processes are carried out by the Blackshape team...

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Blackshape Gabriél In less than three years from the preliminary design to the EASA (European Aviation Safety Agency) certification, the valuable design and technological know-how of Blackshape has led to the development of the Gabriél programme: a general aviation aircraft conceived for the training of professional pilots, both civil and military members. Thanks to its versatility, Gabriél can also be configured as recreational, for the extreme performance lovers, who have a Private Pilot License (PPL) and desire an intense flight exper

Awarded in 2019 as the most innovative aircraft by Aerokurier, an international historic trade magazine, Gabriél is a two-seater trainer aircraft designed for pilots’ first (ab-inizio) training. Totally made up of carbon fibre, the aircraft has data-recording systems onboard that make it a sort of ‘flying lab’, with state-of-the-art equipment and avionics and with dual controls for guaranteeing the maximum safety by allowing the trainer to eventually intervene and, in any case, to carry out a detailed analysis of the cadet’s skills. These features allow Gabriél to fil a gap in the aviation...

Training System Blackshape develops and provides worldwide high-level training systems, economically competitive and inspired to the new approaches of military training programmes. The aim is to train pilots for their full airmanship, independently from the software functioning status of vehicles. The training system conceived by Blackshape includes different parts that, if applied together with an integral approach, offer the best result.

In particular, the system is based on: The development of a training syllabus for the acquisition of fundamental skills, by reaching gradual steps in order to understand the most advanced manoeuvres and for the monitoring of cadets’ real and objective skills, carried out considering not only the hours flown. A highly qualifying training platform (Gabriél) for pushing the ab-initio training and allowing the cadet to master all the manoeuvres indicated in the programme and to be favoured in the transition to vehicles fort a higher difficulty training. A sophisticated software system that, by...

Optionally Pilot Vehicles The properties of Blackshape aircraft have also made them suitable for patrol missions and ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance): at the end of 2019, Blackshape successfully completed the first phase of OCEAN2020 sea demonstration, the largest EU funded defend research project for maritime surveillance – in collaboration with the Italian Navy. Blackshape led the operation using a BK-ISP, an innovative aerial platform with OPV (Optionally Piloted Vehicle) capabilities. This configuration enables to perform specific intelligence surveillance and...

Founder, CEO Luciano Belviso holds a Bachelor's Degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, and a Master of Laws from the Universite Paris XI, France. He is member of the Space Generation Advisory Council in support of the United Nations Space Program, member of the International Institute of Space Law. He has carried out his academic and professional experiences in Europe, Russia, Canada, India and South America. Petrosillo Angelo Co-Founder, Managing...