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Events Category: Aeronautics
2026 International Powered Lift Conference (IPLC)
Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 December 2025
The International Powered Lift Conference (IPLC) focuses on the latest developments in vertical and/or short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) aircraft research, concepts and programs.
IPLC is a joint technical meeting, cosponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA), the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS), SAE International and VFS. SAE is the host organization this year and will incorporate IPLC into its AeroTech aerospace technology conference, 2–4 June 2026 at West Palm Beach, Florida.
Call for Papers
Technical papers are solicited for advancements in the arts, sciences, and technologies that apply to the design and operation of V/STOL and eV/STOL aircraft systems, including lift systems, attitude control systems, airframe configurations, subsystems, handling qualities and safety, navigation and air traffic control, noise and pollution suppression, ground handling, and ground time minimization.
Topics for the 2026 IPLC include:
- Advanced Flight Controls, Cockpit Automation, and Autonomy of Crewed and Uncrewed Systems
- Breaking Developments in V/STOL-Enabling Sciences and Technologies
- Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Aircraft using Battery, Hybrid- or Hydrogen-Electric Energy Systems and/or Electric Motors for Powered Lift and Control
- Convertiplane (Tiltrotor, Tiltwing, and Stopped Rotor) Concepts and Design
- Fan-Lift and Jet-Lift Systems Design and Fixed-Wing Aircraft Integration
- Heavy through Ultra-Heavy Lift V/STOL Transport Aircraft Design (>20,000 kg payload capability)
- Rotorcraft Lift-Compounding and Thrust-Compounding Systems Design and Vehicle Integration
- Single- and Multi-Rotor Drone Systems Design and Vehicle Integration
- Current and Historical V/STOL Aircraft Technology Overviews and Project/Program Updates
- Other Topics in V/STOL Aircraft Systems
AIAA HyTASP Spring 2025 Webinar (AIAA Member Exclusive)
On Demand Recording Available
Featuring Special Guest Lecturer, Sarah Popkin, program manager in DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office
AIAA Members: make sure you are signed in to the site with your member credentials to be able to access the on demand replay.
This event is offered exclusively to AIAA members. Want to learn more about the benefits of AIAA membership?
Join us for “AIAA Spring Hypersonics Webinar,” presented by Sarah Popkin, and hosted by the AIAA HyTASP Technical Committee. This webinar sets the stage for understanding DARPA’s role and function in the Department of Defense. To create or prevent strategic surprise, DARPA empowers program managers to develop new, high-risk ideas to advance U.S. technical capability. In space, a new domain called very low Earth orbit (VLEO) is being researched at DARPA across three programs. Those programs and the additional technical and fundamental physics challenges to consider when operating in VLEO will be highlighted
AIAA SciTech Forum 2026
The AIAA SciTech Forum program covers the science, technologies, and policies that are shaping the future of aerospace. The forum is the largest event for aerospace research, development, and technology in the world.
2025 ASCEND (Accelerating Space Commerce, Exploration, and New Discovery)
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2025 AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition (AIAA AVIATION Forum)
The AIAA AVIATION Forum is the only aviation event that covers the entire integrated spectrum of aviation business, research, development, and technology.
AIAA Multidisciplinary Design Optimization TC Webinar: “A Journey Towards MDAO” (AIAA Member Exclusive)
On Demand Recording Available
This on-demand webinar is free of charge and is open to the public.
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Join us for “A Journey Toward MDAO,” presented by Kumar Bhatia, The Boeing Company (retired). Hosted by the AIAA Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Technical Committee, Bhatia will re-present his award lecture and discuss advancing the uses of MDAO (multidisciplinary design analysis and optimization). Bhatia received the 2022 AIAA Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Award for pioneering use of MDO in transport aircraft and developing a rapid approach for aircraft MDO employing appropriate fidelity analyses.
Women Driving Aviation: Innovations in Breaking the Sound Barrier
(Internal Note: this webinar didn’t happen)
In celebration of Women’s History Month, join AIAA in collaboration with NSBE Aerospace Special Interest Group and the Royal Aeronautical Society for this special webinar featuring Christine Darden. While Darden has many accomplishments, the majority of her 40-year NASA career focused on sonic boom minimization. Darden’s work laid the foundation for the Low Boom Flight Demonstrator Aircraft which NASA has contracted Lockheed Martin Skunk Works to design, build, and test. Listen as she discusses her life’s work and how she advocates for equity for women in engineering.
This webinar is a part of the annual Mary Jackson Lecture Series hosted by the Royal Aeronautical Society and the AIAA Diversity Working Group.
Once There was an Arrow — “Black Friday” of the Canadian Aviation Industry
Mark your calendar! Join the AIAA New England Section for the expert webinar by Colonel Walter Gordon – Chairman of the AIAA Niagara Frontier Section and deputy chair of the AIAA History Committee!
Avro Canada completed and flew five prototypes of the CF-105 Arrow supersonic interceptor before the program was terminated by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker on February 20, 1959. Known ever since as Black Friday, on that day over 14,000 employees lost their jobs and the Canadian aerospace industry changed forever, never again to produce a state-of-the-art military aircraft. One of the most advanced fighter aircraft in the world at the time, the Arrow was an almost inconceivable achievement by a company that only thirteen years earlier was manufacturing Lancaster bombers under license during World War II.
2022 AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition (AIAA AVIATION Forum)
The only aviation event that covers the entire integrated spectrum of aviation business, research, development, and technology. The program features discussions with respected aviation leaders—providing a single, structured gathering to help attendees navigate the challenges and opportunities affecting the direction of global aviation policy, research and development, technological proliferation, environmental issues, and emerging markets.