Let me introduce you to the ORBIT Commuter team.

At the moment, it’s just Brandon. I realize – it sounds a little conceited and pretentious, but it’s really just a fact at the moment. ORBIT is still embryonic and trying to grow, but we can tell you a little about its founder and inventor.

Brandon devoted more than 25 years to the aerospace industry while ORBIT was simmering on the back burner. He is a polymath, compulsive creative, and inventor, trained as an aircraft designer at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and George Washington University’s Joint Institute for the Advancement of Flight Sciences (a.k.a. JIAFS). Brandon worked as a civil servant with NASA at the Dryden Flight Research Center (now renamed to Armstrong Flight Research Center) in the Mojave Desert on the X-34 and X-43 programs. He also helped reconstitute the Advanced Concepts design group at Sikorsky Aircraft as one of the original designers in the group which eventually became Sikorsky Innovations. While at Sikorsky, he was part of the team that developed the X2 Technology Demonstrator (at the time it was the world’s fastest helicopter) and its predecessor, the S-97 Raider. He also contributed to various embodiments of the Joint Heavy Lift program including unconventional configurations of counter-rotating rotors, single main rotor, and various tiltrotor configurations. Brandon then migrated west to work with Quest Aircraft in Idaho on the Kodiak 100 turboprop aircraft, eventually creating and leading the group that developed the Kodiak 900 turboprop under the ownership of Daher. And then in 2025, Brandon created ORBIT.

You can find out more about our founder or even reach out and make contact on LinkedIn.