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FRONTLINE AEROSPACE RAISED $2 MILLION

Poised to enter billion-dollar market, Pre-revenue, pre-production startup bucks funding trends BROOMFIELD, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bucking today’s over-cautious venture capital trends, Frontline Aerospace has raised $2 million to bring its new gas turbine engine efficiency technologies to market before producing products or booking sales. “The time is right to go-to-market with the performance products we’ve been developing

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International Conference on Environmental Sustainability in Air Vehicle Design and Operations of Helicopters and Airplanes

  September 22-24, 2015 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Aerospace and Sustainability Sectors “Sustainability 2015” is the inaugural AHS conference devoted to the sustainable design of air vehicles in the vertical flight and fixed-wing aircraft industries, covering the spectrum of environment issues as they affect the air vehicle’s entire life cycle from conceptual design through

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NEW COMPRESSOR TECHNOLOGY BY FRONTLINE AEROSPACE YIELDS >10% HEAT RATE IMPROVEMENT FOR THE ROLLS-ROYCE 501-K FAMILY

Houston, Texas 44th Turbomachinery Conference September 14th, 2015 – Frontline Aerospace announces a new bolt-on compressor retrofit technology for the Rolls-Royce (Allison) 501K that improves heat rate, increases power output and lowers emissions.  See us at booth 2544. “Gas turbine compression has been neglected,” said Ryan Wood, Frontline’s CEO.  “The OEMs do a good job

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FRONTLINE AEROSPACE WINS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWSUIT, INCREASING VALUE OF IP

Broomfield, Colorado, September 29, 2014 – Today US Magistrate Judge Stephen C. Riedlinger, (US Federal Court Middle District of Louisiana) issued a judgment and opinion in Civil Action 3:10-cv-10-00297-SCR (International Mezzo Technologies vs. Frontline Aerospace, Inc.). “Despite the Judge taking nearly three years to rule after the bench trial, we are delighted with the ruling

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FRONTLINE AEROSPACE GRANTED AERIAL VEHICLE PATENT — V-STAR — THE NEXT GENERATION OF DRONES IS FANCRAFT

Broomfield, Colorado, July 17, 2012 – Today the USPTO granted a patent to Frontline Aerospace for a Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) aerial vehicle (US 822,0737 B2). “The future of VTOL aircraft is what is called fancraft rather than rotorcraft, as seen in films like Avatar and The Avengers,” said Frontline CEO Ryan S. Wood.

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Frontline Aerospace Achieves $59 Million IP Valuation

Broomfield, Colorado, January 2011 — Ryan S. Wood, founder and CEO of Broomfield-based Frontline Aerospace, announced today that Ocean Tomo, an industry leader in providing intellectual property (IP) valuation, has valued Frontline’s IP as “most likely” worth $59 million for its gas turbine efficiency technology and V-STAR drone. “We are extremely pleased with the sophistication

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USPTO GRANTS FRONTLINE AEROSPACE GAS TURBINE RECUPERATOR PATENT—MICROFIRE

Broomfield, Colorado, August 17, 2010 – Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted Frontline Aerospace and inventor Ryan S. Wood a patent titled: “Recuperator for Gas Turbine Engines.” “The patent embodies the marriage of a high performance compact heat exchanger with the Rolls-Royce Model 250 gas turbine family,” said Wood. “The key novelties are

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Long Discarded VTOL Concepts Revived in Unmanned Systems

July 13, 2010 The V-STAR mock-up designed by Colorado-based Frontline Aerospace was displayed in booth 1435. Sized at full-scale in the same category as the AD-150, the V-STAR would be powered by two Rolls-Royce Model 250 engines. The engines drive one ducted fan in the centre of the V-shaped fuselage for vertical lift and an

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At Robot Show, Future Of Warfare Is On Display

Denver, Colorado, August 27, 2009 — From robotic insects that can crawl and fly to spy drones that look and move like real hummingbirds, the future of warfare was on display this week at a massive robotic conference here. This year’s Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International show attracted more than 6,000 visitors — well

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