Founded in February 2025 by Guillermo Fernandez and Tom Lolies, FAIR AERO builds on years of scientific research, numerical methods development and industrial experience in flexible-wing engineering.
Founded in February 2025, built on years of scientific research and industrial practice.
Guillermo Fernandez and Tom Lolies founded FAIR AERO to connect numerical methods, flexible-wing design and experimental evidence. Their complementary backgrounds bring the mechanics of structures and the realities of wing development into the same engineering process.
The timeline traces the earlier flexible-wing work behind that expertise, followed by FAIR AERO’s own developments in GENEPI.
A scientific record built through software development, publications, design and testing.
Research and software developments before February 2025 reflect the founders’ earlier academic and industrial work, independently of FAIR AERO.
Early numerical tools address flexible-wing geometry processing and mesh generation. ParaGEN helps turn the geometric definition of a wing into a discretised structure for numerical analysis.
A coupled aerodynamic–structural methodology combines lifting-line aerodynamics with mass–spring textile modelling. Implemented in PARASIM V1, it connects the aerodynamic loading with the deformation of the flexible wing.
The methods are presented at the PEGASUS Student Conference and published in Aerotecnica Missili & Spazio. The work brings cloth dynamics, aerodynamic modelling and initial comparisons with experimental measurements into the wing-development process.
Research at ISAE-SUPAERO explores Lattice-Boltzmann and immersed-boundary methods for highly deformable ram-air wings. The experimental ALULA solver investigates coupled flow and textile dynamics, with work communicated at 3AF Applied Aerodynamics and Structural Membranes / ICTCIS.
An efficient FSI methodology combines three-dimensional panel aerodynamics with nonlinear structural models. Implemented in PARASIM V2, the approach is compared with experimental data and presented at the AIAA Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems Technology Conference.
Years of paraglider and kite design, prototype testing and development through certification give the numerical work a practical industrial perspective. Tom Lolies also contributes to the PMA guidance on periodical paraglider inspections, drawing on his earlier role at Bruce Goldsmith Design.
Guillermo Fernandez and Tom Lolies establish FAIR AERO in February 2025. The company brings structural dynamics, experimental validation, aerodynamic modelling and textile-wing design into one engineering practice, and launches GENEPI for nonlinear aeroelastic simulation of flexible aircraft.
FAIR AERO develops numerical sewing to reconstruct three-dimensional textile structures from two-dimensional production patterns. A French patent application is filed in January, followed by the AIAA publication. Complementary research presented at AWEC examines how fast aerodynamic models and higher-fidelity simulations can serve the same FSI workflow.
French patent application FR2600770 · Filed 20 January 2026
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A PhD in structural dynamics, research in modal identification and experience at Résonance Ingénieurs-Conseils provide a foundation in structural modelling, instrumentation and comparison with measurements. An experienced founder and qualified paragliding instructor, Guillermo connects experimental rigour with flight experience.
An ISAE-SUPAERO engineering degree, doctoral research in FSI and eight years of paraglider and kite design connect numerical methods with product development. Tom’s experience spans flexible-wing design, testing, certification support and scientific teaching, informing his role as FAIR AERO’s CTO.
Funding, incubation and collaborative networks
support different stages of our development.
2025 / BOURSE FRENCH TECH ÉMERGENCEBpifrance support for the first GENEPI development programme and its use within FAIR AERO’s engineering work.
Support from the French State and Région Sud for the GENEPI prototype and technological validation programme.
The GENEPI technology validation project is funded by the French State and Région Sud as part of France 2030.
“The project could have major environmental benefits”
“The approach addresses a real, concrete need expressed by the maritime sector.”
“This project could be a catalyst for the use of flexible wings with a low, or even zero, environmental impact.”
Entrepreneurial and technology-development support through incubation.
Export support to structure FAIR AERO’s international development.
Diagnostic Partenariat Technologique International: assistance in preparing international collaborative R&D projects.
Regional accompaniment for preparing a European collaborative project around the MAT-PROD research direction.
FAIR AERO is a member of SAFE and Pôle Mer Méditerranée. These networks connect our software development with industrial needs and complementary research expertise.
Project label: GENEPI.
Flexible-aircraft simulation, aeronautics and defence.
Project label: GENEPI-WAPS.
Textile-wing simulation for wind-assisted maritime propulsion.
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