All tagged drone

Céline Craye

Now I understand why my mother warned me that the birth of one’s first child leads many women to throw in the professional towel,” smiles Céline, mother of Théodore, who is just a few months old, and head of the software development team at Cerbair, which supplies governments with anti-drone solutions. She admits that becoming a mother has changed her relationship to work, adding that she finds it exhausting to start a second day once the office day (or, for the moment, home-working day) is over, even if her spouse fully plays his part…

Flight Lt. Louise

Just this once you won’t see Louise’s face because she’s an “intelligence officer – tactical coordinator” on remotely piloted air systems (drones in other words, or RPASs) in the French Air and Space Force so a bit of discretion is in order (…) She is amongst the first to do this job that didn't even exist 12 years ago. But as a child Louise was far from imagining a career in the Air Force. "I had a really strong bond with my grandfather, who was an officer in the Foreign Legion. We would spend long hours riding together, him on his horse and me on my pony." She laughs that "even if I have two brothers, he considered me to be the little soldier of the family…”

Major Samantha Harvey

It’s not because you fail at something once that you shouldn’t persist… and then turn out to be very good at the something in question. In Sam’s case (she prefers Sam to Samantha) it is the British Army where she will take up her rank of Lieutenant Colonel on 31 August. Currently the chief of staff of the Air Safety branch atJoint Helicopter Command, she was rejected the first time she tried to join the Army 17 years ago…