Flyer AIFlyer is building autonomous delivery aircraft that make local logistics fast, quiet, clean, and safe...
...and radically more efficient.
James May's latest film gives people an early public look at Flyer in action, with lunch delivered by drone in a standout moment for the company.
It's the clearest public proof yet that the future we're building is becoming real. Watch the full piece, then explore the technical progress underneath it.
Founded one year ago and operating in secrecy to date, our tiny team has been pioneering a new technical approach to small package delivery.
We believe simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Airborne delivery must be near silent for community acceptance. Our proprietary propellers make this no ordinary drone.
Flyer and our team come from conventional aviation. We are building with the same philosophy as commercial aviation, the world’s safest form of transport.
For the ultimate service, we will operate at speed and range, with internal payload stowage and precision delivery.
With intelligent design, the impossible can be made possible. We cut the costs of operational delivery to pennies.
Off-the-shelf, mass-produced components are combined with stamped/moulded plastic and ingenious structural design, which means Flyer can scale up extremely fast.
Our company, in design, in manufacturing, and in operation, is founded on a core of AI as a force multiplier, both an accelerator and an enabler of the otherwise impractical.
With four patents pending, Flyer is already reinventing possible. Proper, aviation-best-practice design focus will be a step change in the cost, safety, and community acceptance of drone delivery.
The last 20 years have seen the world of digital connectivity transformed beyond our wildest expectations.
... and yet, movement of people, and movement of things, has not evolved since the birth of modern courier services 50 years ago.
It is time to bring the same revolutionary advances to physical connectivity.
Although we have layered e-commerce on top of that infrastructure, and done it well, the way we move things has deteriorated, not improved. Personal travel, and transportation/delivery of goods, is time-consuming, frustrating, expensive and environmentally destructive.
Founded in 2025 by Justin Paines, an engineering test pilot with 35 years of experience in aviation, Flyer has operated in secrecy for the past year.
With patents now pending, we are ready to open our doors and share a very different approach to autonomous aviation.
We are delighted to have received grants from Digital Catapult and Surrey County Council, which have funded the company to date.
We are shortly to announce receipt of another very substantial grant which we have been awarded, but which we are not yet at liberty to publicise.
We do not hire just anyone. We are looking for the best of the best, people with a relentless commitment to excellence, passion, drive, and determination.
If that sounds like you, take a look at the roles we are shaping and what it means to build Flyer with us.
