For pilots who fly with a headset
Built forthe third hour
Sunglasses made for the cockpit, by people who fly. A European brand, one pair, done properly.
Design study
The sun sits low off the left wing. The canopy scatters it into a haze you look through rather than at, and the ground has gone the colour of old paper.
Your headset has been clamped over your temples since start-up. Somewhere in the last forty minutes, the arms of your sunglasses stopped being furniture and started being a problem — a small hot line above each ear that you now think about more than the engine.
You tilt your head to read the tablet. The screen goes black. You tilt back. It returns.
So you take the glasses off, and you squint, and you fly on.
Every pilot knows that hour.
Nobody builds for it.
SKYFELL is one pair of sunglasses, designed around that hour and nothing else. Thin enough to disappear under an ear seal. Never polarized, so the panel stays readable whichever way you turn your head. Light enough that after three hours you have forgotten them — which is the only compliment eyewear can earn in a cockpit.
Two problems, one pair
The pressure point
Ordinary temples are too thick
Between your skull and the ear seal there is almost no room. A normal arm fills it, presses on the bone, and lifts the cushion just enough to let the engine back in. Ours is thin, straight and flat, with nothing raised on the part that passes under the cup.
The black screen
Polarized lenses fight your panel
Polarization is sold everywhere as a mark of quality. In a cockpit it turns displays dark, shifts their colour, and lays interference patterns across a plastic canopy. Ours are strictly non-polarized — a deliberate choice, not an omission.
See it — tilt your head
Drag the slider. On the left, a display behind a polarized lens. On the right, the same display behind ours. It is the only colour on this page, which is rather the point.
Polarized legibility 100% · SKYFELL 100%
Design study. Photographs of the production samples replace these as soon as we hold them.
What we are building
- One pair
A single model at launch, in two tints — one warm for contrast against terrain and cloud, one neutral for true colour. No range, no options, no noise.
- Thin and straight
Flat arms that pass under an ear cup instead of fighting it, with nothing moulded or printed on the part that matters.
- Never polarized
Category 3 protection with the anti-reflective coating on the inside, where the canopy glare comes from.
- Certified, then sold
Tested to EN ISO 12312-1 by an accredited European laboratory before a single pair is offered. The report is published, not summarised.
- Made for Europe
A European brand, European stock, European warranty. No customs, no transatlantic returns.
Figures are published once measured on the finished product, never promised beforehand. It is the same standard we apply to our suppliers.
Manufacturing partners
What we source
OEM eyewear, European market
Lightweight polyamide frames with straight, ultra-thin temples, and polycarbonate category 3 lenses — strictly non-polarized, with an internal anti-reflective coating. Two lens tints, one frame, repeat orders through the year.
How we work
Written brief, samples, third-party inspection
A full technical specification, two rounds of samples, pre-shipment inspection to AQL 2.5, and EN ISO 12312-1 test reports on the finished product. Payment 30 % on order, balance on a conforming inspection report. We do not pay in full in advance, and we do not ask suppliers to cut corners.
Factories, lens makers, case manufacturers and logistics partners: write to contact@skyfell.eu and we will send the specification and a request for quotation.
Fly with us first
No newsletter. A handful of messages, no more: the test results when they come, and the first batch when it opens — to this list before anyone else.
Telling us your headset shapes the product. It is the single most useful thing you can give us today.