Today I want to share a little bit with you on the work we've done at Cloudline.

I'm very fortunate that a lot of the presenters who've gone this morning have actually covered

so much of the technical ground and the physics that's going to be relevant for what I share

which is very exciting.

Thank you especially, Nat, because you've spared me from a lot of complex maths.

Now that I have CEO in my title

I can only add and subtract currency.

So I'm very, very grateful for that.

But I want to dive in and really today is going to be about sharing the experiences

we've had on the practical side of things building.

And I've chosen for the title of my talk because I wanted to share with you specifically about

the solar work that we're doing, what price scale.

And as Nat preempted

this was inspired by Von Karman and Gabriele's What Price Speed

which I'm sure many of you have some familiarity with

and really looks at what I like to think

of in the hardware world as our bounding box of trade-offs within the laws of physics.

And for those of you who have taken a look at this, and Nat mentioned this is looking,

in their case

at specific power versus the vehicle speed

airships sit right there.

And so they are not here more efficient than trains and merchant ships

nor are they the

fastest thing on the chart.

But of course, as we've already discussed, sometimes the other dimensions like the ability

to go anywhere outweigh that.

So that's going to be about the most involved physics you're going to see on my slides for

the day

because I want to share with you about what we are building.

This is our very first model of airship that I've got up here.

We're based out in a little town called Stellenbosch, which is just outside of Cape Town, South

Africa.

For those of you who have been and those of you who haven't, you are welcome to visit

us there.

This is the group of engineers who are behind the aircraft.

As I mentioned, I do a different kind of number crunching today.

And our airships have now flown in three different countries in Africa

and we are working on

client relationships in three more, which is very, very exciting.

And hopefully we can build relationships here also to come to Europe.

Now

our design philosophy at CloudLine has always been about looking very carefully at

those physical tradeoffs and giving up some of that perfect optimization that we were

talking about earlier, really in favor of speed to market.

And that has been building smaller airships that can be done quickly on the assembly line

tested and put in the hands of customers.

We've now gone through the process of certifying two different aircraft with the South African

Civil Aviation Authority as the state of design.

And we're on our way, as I said, to commercializing those now with customers.

We've already done commercial BVLOS flights in South Africa.