Simon Davies is Chief Test Pilot and joined Vertical in 2020. Mr. Davies is a Cat 1 Test Pilot (USNTPS), Flight Instructor and eVTOL pilot with over 25 years flying experience. Mr. Davies has 3,000 hours in >70 types, including aeroplanes, helicopters, eVTOL aircraft, airships, gliders, and drones/remotely-piloted aircraft. Mr. Davies studied Aerospace Engineering at University of Cambridge and enrolled in the UK Royal Air Force thereafter. spending 16 years as a fast jet pilot, instructor and examiner. Mr. Davies trained as a test pilot with the U.S. Navy at Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland, Pax River.