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Jonathan Gibbs is the managing director of Savion Aerospace Pty Ltd, a company dedicated to decarbonizing medium and long-haul aviation. Mr. Gibbs previously worked as an aerodynamicist in product development for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, as a researcher in M.I.T.’s Lab for Aviation and the Environment, and as a researcher in aircraft design at the German Aerospace Center’s (DLR) Institute of Air Transport Systems in Hamburg. Mr. Gibbs holds a Bachelor of Science degree (S.B.) and a Master of Science degree (S.M.) in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mr. Gibbs founded Savion Aerospace Corp. in the United States with a fellow graduate student while competing in the M.I.T. Clean Energy Prize in 2011. He left his doctoral research program in Germany to move to Silicon Valley in 2017 after Savion received investment from the Alchemist Accelerator. Mr. Gibbs moved to Australia in 2022 and formed Savion Aerospace Pty Ltd. with investment from Antler Australia and existing shareholders. Savion conducted the first liquid natural gas (LNG) aircraft flight in the U.S. in 2019 and has received over $60 Million in letters of intent for its remotely-piloted “SavionJet”.
Jonathan Gibbs is the managing director of Savion Aerospace Pty Ltd, a company dedicated to decarbonizing medium and long-haul aviation. Mr. Gibbs previously worked as an aerodynamicist in product development for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, as a researcher in M.I.T.’s Lab for Aviation and the Environment, and as a researcher in aircraft design at the German Aerospace Center’s (DLR) Institute of Air Transport Systems in Hamburg. Mr. Gibbs holds a Bachelor of Science degree (S.B.) and a Master of Science degree (S.M.) in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mr. Gibbs founded Savion Aerospace Corp. in the United States with a fellow graduate student while competing in the M.I.T. Clean Energy Prize in 2011. He left his doctoral research program in Germany to move to Silicon Valley in 2017 after Savion received investment from the Alchemist Accelerator. Mr. Gibbs moved to Australia in 2022 and formed Savion Aerospace Pty Ltd. with investment from Antler Australia and existing shareholders. Savion conducted the first liquid natural gas (LNG) aircraft flight in the U.S. in 2019 and has received over $60 Million in letters of intent for its remotely-piloted “SavionJet”.
![[AD] Tapping Bones to Help People Communicate](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OnLhk_WPuF0/mqdefault.jpg "[AD] Tapping Bones to Help People Communicate
Read more about how Jordan McRae 05 and his team at Mobilus created an audio device that captures and transmits speech through bone-conduction: https://bit.ly/4cBSjJm
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Jordan McRae ’05 was scuba diving off the coast of Mozambique many years ago when he started having trouble with his regulator. Unable to breathe effectively, he signaled to a fellow diver for help—but his companion didn’t understand and ended up making the situation worse. “I didn’t die, but I was pretty scared,” McRae says.
The experience inspired McRae to seek a technical solution to the problem of communicating in challenging audio environments. Today he is the founder and CEO of Mobilus Labs, a startup commercializing a voice communication platform that works wherever it is hard to hear.
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