Setting Wind Industry Standards

Industry giant Vergnet has listed Aerotrope among the field’s most important design-, modelling- and engineering consultants: synonymous with setting standards for the wind industry’s rapid technological evolution. We are proud to be named Vergnet’s main partners alongside Garrad Hassan, Germanischer Lloyd and DEWI.

Aerotrope always strives to provide nothing less than excellent independent consultancy to the wind industry. Director Chris Hornzee-Jones started out as blade design engineer when the industry was in its infancy, and this year he is celebrating 20 years of continuous involvement in the renewables sector.

A list of Aerotrope’s clients and selected wind industry projects is available on request.

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Anish Kapoor at the Royal Academy

Aerotrope was invited to the exclusive opening of Anish Kapoor’s major show at the Royal Academy in London. We were excited to see three of our projects assembled in one place- a first! Those works engineered by Aerotrope created a real buzz in the audience and in the media- most notably “Shooting into a Corner” (‘grease gun’) and “Svayambh” (‘grease train’), as well as the brand new rusted steel sculpture called “Hive”. We are immensely proud to have contributed to this major British art event.

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Flights of Fancy

Aerotrope engineers spent one weekend’s sunny day training their eyes at Shoreham Airshow. This was aeronautics at its most playful, great for studying some ‘atypical behaviour’ of  wings in the wind-  something that will come in handy for our more unusual current projects. Above a snap of the excellent Red Devils parachute team.

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Glider Aerobatics

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  Have a look at this video we shot at Shoreham Airshow!

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Learning The Ropes

Team Aerotrope enjoyed a day’s sailing tuition on one of the sunniest days in the UK this summer. We hired a Benetau 36.7 First yacht from Lagoon Watersports. What a beautiful boat! Our cool skipper Paul showed us the basics of tacking and jibing, and soon we were off trying our new skills along the coast of Brighton. Alas since we had our hands full we did not get round to photographing the team at work. But it’s not hard to imagine the smiles and tanned faces at the end of the day. Thanks Chris!

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