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UNITED AIRCRAFT TECHNOLOGIES :: 30 THIRD STREET :: 518-286-8867
Out of an injury comes a solution. Downtown Troy, NY is home to many small businesses representing a number of fields and specialties. Troy is also home to a few incubator spaces and programs which can help a small business get its start. United Aircraft Technologies (UAT) is a company in Downtown Troy that has been created from these paths. This company saw a problem and developed a solution through the Inventor’s Studio at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and at the Tech Valley Center of Gravity.
United Aircraft Technologies was founded by Daryian Rhysing, Evaguel Rhysing and Donald A. DeVito three years ago. They are an aeropspace company that specializes in a new design of clamps for military aircrafts. Daryian was a military aircraft electrician for 12 years. He developed painful carpel tunnel syndrome after the many hours he spent maintaining and fixing the wiring systems and clamps of the aircraft. With his veteran benefits, he decided to go back to school, enrolling in the Computer Systems Engineering program at RPI. Through his personal experience and schooling, his idea for a new type of clamp and technology was created. He partnered with Donald A. DeVito and his wife Evaguel Rhysing to create the company. With Dariyan’s lead, a staff of 10 including engineers and developers and Evaguel’s experience in Public Relations and Business Administration, United Aircraft Technologies has secured government contracts, won grants and awards and has been featured in Aviation Pros Magazine, The Tech Tribune and The Albany Times Union to name a few.
The product that UAT specializes in is a plastic version of the metal clamps used to hold electrical wiring in aircrafts, which can find in the thousands to tens of thousands in these aircraft. The company has developed a lightweight plastic version, which is 65% lighter than the metal clamps and makes maintenance easier through their ease of assembly, and network of sensors that monitors and localizes faults, increasing payload capacity and operational efficiency. Using plastic instead of metal also reduces vibration, which degrades wiring and insulation over time and reduces electrical shocks. The clamps are suitable for a diverse range of aircrafts: helicopters, jets, passenger and cargo planes and spacecrafts.
United Aircraft Technologies was born and has offices in Troy, NY. They were previously members of the Tech Valley Center of Gravity and recently relocated to their own office space, upstairs on the 3rd floor of the Quackenbush Building at 30 3rd Street. The office was ready for an easy move-in and its communal conference rooms and kitchens make for an engaged community of companies and organizations within the building. UAT reinvests into the Troy community, offering internships for RPI students. Through a thorough and competitive process, they select interns once to twice a year. Currently they are hosting their fourth cohort where James D’Angio and Chris Kyle Ordonio continue to develop their skills in real world working environments. Many have been employed afterwards or even returned to Troy for UAT. Their next step in innovating is creating a smart clamp which monitors and diagnoses the entire electrical system of the aircraft. In Troy, the smallest ideas and details can create big change.
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