Flybrid Systems has been honoured with top prize at the British Engineering Excellence Awards. At a spectacular gala dinner in London's Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Flybrid Technical Director Doug Cross was delighted to first receive the award for Start up of the Year, before also scooping the top Grand Prix 2009 award.

The Awards programme drew some 100 entries from all corners of the UK’s engineering community – ranging from single employee design houses to multinational organisations.

The Judges noted that Flybrid is ‘A great example of British engineering coupled with excellent entrepreneurial management’.

“This is a marvellous invention that has solved the barrier problems in mechanical energy storage. The speed with which the prototypes have been fielded and tested is remarkable and the team displays the experience needed to become a dominating world player.”

We couldn't agree more!