Army aviator turned AI engineer. Now building thermal inspection systems that actually work.
I flew Black Hawks for 20 years — special operations, medevac, instructor pilot. When I got out, I started building AI systems. Now I combine both: thermal drones with custom machine learning that finds problems humans miss.
— John Cornelius, Founder & Chief Pilot
Airborne-qualified Army aviator. Multiple deployments.
Special operations aviation. Night vision, low-level, and high-risk mission profiles.
3,000+ flight hours in the UH-60 Black Hawk. Trained and evaluated Army pilots.
B.S. Aeronautics. M.S. Unmanned Systems — Human Factors.
Leading AI implementation and process optimization across 9 manufacturing plants. I understand industrial operations from the inside.
Thermal drone inspection with custom AI defect detection. Serving WV, MD, and VA.
Enterprise-grade thermal imaging platform with calibrated temperature measurement. Captures both visual and thermal data simultaneously for precise anomaly localization.
Purpose-built detection system. MediaMTX for stream ingestion, OpenCV for image processing, and YOLOv8-nano for real-time thermal anomaly detection and classification.