Based in Sweden, Skyforest is currently one of the most northerly Dhalion operators in our network. The company brings extensive experience from drone operations in forestry, often working in remote locations and demanding environments. That expertise is now being applied to wind turbine inspections.

Two results stand out immediately.

• Using Dhalion, the Skyforest team inspected eight Siemens turbines with 170-metre rotor diameters (85 m blade) in a single ten-hour working day. Considering the size of those turbines, that’s an impressive achievement. (For comparison: An Airbus A380 is 72.7 m long and The Statue of Liberty (ground to torch) is  93 m tall, or consider a blade is equal to 1.7 olympic swimming pools)
• In a different deployment, see the Case Study,  the team was able to spot two cracks just as the drone landed and they were reviewing the images as part of their Q&A Workflow. Spotting those cracks in the field allowed early warning to the operator and mitigation measures put in place in no time.

The project also demonstrates something we’ve seen repeatedly over the years: organisations with strong operational discipline and professional drone workflows adapt exceptionally well to autonomous blade inspections.

Technology matters. People using it matter just as much or even more.

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