Christopher Hornzee-Jones

Chris is the director of design engineering consultancy Aerotrope. He has been attracted to just-possible projects since an early age and has amassed a broad range of design expertise in the process. He has 20 years of experience worldwide with wind turbines, artworks and architectural projects. Trained at British Aerospace, he worked at SP Systems for 5 years, where he designed a carbon composite mountain bike for Lotus. For his own company Aerotrope he developed a rigid wing hang glider of novel configuration, the aerodynamics and ultra lightweight structural technology of which informed the development of the original Sailrocket wingsail. For Vestas Sailrocket 2 Aerotrope designed the fuselage and a fully feathering wing.