About Us

The Team

Steve Hoyle - Managing Director
BSc Mathematics/Operations Research
Ten years airforce.
Airline career since including nine years instructing/test flying etc.
Retired in 2006 as a B747 400 captain with 23,000 hours or so.

John Jones – Director
Former Director of the New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
Ex CEO of Mt Cook airlines and ex CEO of CTC aviation.

Richard Roake - Physicist and Aeronautical Engineer
Long brilliant career as a designer, researcher and businessman at the very cutting edge of anything that flies or floats.

Shaun Mitchell - Project and Marketing Manager
Highly skillful businessman with a long trail of successes. He is also an expert large model builder and flier.

Volker Heydecke - Mechanical Engineer
Highly talented, imaginative and meticulous.
Previously with Fiedler GmbH, Daimler Chrysler and Impulse Aircraft.