✅ Every aircraft type
✅ Indoor & outdoor
✅ Zero preparation
✅ Every aircraft type
✅ Indoor & outdoor
✅ Zero preparation
Today, aircraft inspections are a highly time-and cost intense process. An inspection of a widebody can last up to 12 hours and involves two to three aircraft engineers using heavy equipment. Airlines and MROs are therefore under constant pressure. Mainblades is here to change that. Our drone-powered inspection tool supports aircraft engineers to perform their work more efficiently and to gather consistent, compliant inspection data.
Our software includes a dent-and-buckle feature which allows to record and review all structural damages on the outside of the aircraft. The damage assessment report pinpoints the exact location of anomalies and damages found in the Station and Stringers format. This allows engineers to focus on their true expertise: analysing defects and making quick informed decisions on the maintenance tasks to be performed.
Performing aircraft drone inspections is as simple as a 3-step process:
Our drone inspection solution comes in a single box stored in your tooling and equipment warehouse. The aircraft engineer picks up the box and brings it over to the aircraft. Within 5 minutes the drone is setup via our easy to use iOS application: fully operational and ready to fly the automated aircraft inspection.
No licensed drone operator is needed, only supervision by your ground personnel who controls the whole procedure via our app interface. The Mainblades Flight app. This software enables the drone to safely fly around the aircraft in an automated manner, capturing high-resolution pictures for damage assessment.
After collecting the images, our machine learning software for damage recognition analyzes each one of them and generates a detailed report with relevant data for the engineer. The software classifies damages based on the aircrafts SRM, providing accurate dimension estimates and the locations in stringers & stations.
On top of the software that mechanics use to perform the aircraft drone inspections with the iPad we have developed the Mainblades Web Portal. Both systems are completely synchronised and streamlined. After the inspection has been completed, the inspection data is immediately available to other members of your maintenance team. Via the portal you can get insights and make decisions also from remote locations.
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