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Mr. Angelo Collins is the Executive Director of the Vertical Flight Society, the world’s only international non-profit dedicated to the advancement of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft and technology. Founded in 1943 as the American Helicopter Society, Inc., Angelo is the 7th Executive Director in its 80-year history. Before VFS, Angelo was an employee of Booz Allen Hamilton, where he supervised a team engineers and analysts supporting numerous cutting-edge programs in DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office (TTO).
Mr. Collins supported numerous vertical flight-related programs for DARPA, the Office of Naval Research as well as the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO). As a program manager for Skyworks Aeronautics, Angelo led a team of international engineers, analysts, and lawyers in development of an electric Gyroplane. Collins, a member of VFS since 2008, served as the Administrative Chair of the first VFS Transformative Vertical Flight (TVF) Workshop in 2014, the world’s first meeting of the emerging eVTOL pioneers. The workshop is now held annually as the VFS Electric VTOL Symposium.
Collins has a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland (UMD) and an M.S. in Engineering Administration from Virginia Tech. Collins is a native of the Boston, Massachusetts area but has lived and worked in Arlington, Virginia, for 15 years, where he resides with his wife Nicole, daughter Camila and sons Loukas & Alekos.
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