Whisper Aero is pioneering a more compelling and connected future with cleaner, quieter, and more efficient thrust. Throughout history, propulsion innovation has been the catalyst for remarkable transformations in flight and transportation. Whisper’s propulsive technology opens doors for communities to connect across the Advanced Air Mobility frontiers, whether propulsion for drones, regional/urban air mobility, or the forthcoming ability to achieve electric 100 passenger aircraft. In this talk, Whisper Aero co-founder and CEO and industry veteran Mark Moore will provide an overview of the company’s history, mission, technology, and path forward.
Session Category: AIAA AVIATION Forum 2023
Sustainability Leadership: Addressing Industry Developments in Aviation
Leaders from Airbus, Boeing, and GE Aviation continue their discussion begun at the 2022 AIAA AVIATION Forum around driving change in the aviation industry around sustainability.
FlightLab: Toward Routine Operations of More Aircraft (m) Than Remote Pilots
The AAM ecosystem is expected to advance from current state-of-the-art operations to a ubiquitous capability, similar to cars today. To realize this vision for AAM, technology will be needed to allow a few operators to manage many vehicles. This is accomplished by fully-automated or autonomous aircraft that have no need for a pilot or operator on-board or on the ground, improving vehicle productivity and economics. The likely scenario is that a remote supervisor will oversee the operation of multiple aircraft with strategic fleet management goals. There are numerous challenges associated with technical/operational, safety and security, societal acceptance, and regulatory. The path from existing m:n operations on small UAS in isolated areas to larger aircraft, such as air taxis and cargo aircraft, operating in a more integrated NAS is not clear. The panel will discuss key gaps in aviation and research community activities that need to be addressed and/or accelerated to enable routine m:n operations in civil airspace. The discussion will explore building blocks, ongoing activities, needed activities, and potential paths which build on the maturity of enabling technical capabilities.
Journal Peer Reviewer 101
AIAA’s journals are the best resource for staying current on the latest aerospace research and development. Reporting on the most important aerospace advances, AIAA‘s eight active technical journals feature original research papers spanning the spectrum of aerospace science and technology.
Learn about the peer review process for AIAA journals from Editors-in-Chief and Associate Editors of several AIAA journals. Help evaluate the technical content, importance to the field, style and clarity, and completeness of manuscripts. RSVP required.
FlightLab: Stepping Stones Towards Increasingly Autonomous Flight
A panel of experts across industry, academia, and regulatory domains to present and discuss the most practical near-term (3-5 year) approaches to achieving increasingly autonomous flights. The focus areas will include machine intelligence, operational paradigms, technology barriers, and regulatory approaches.
FlightLab: Infrastructural Requirements for Airport Hydrogen Hubs
Airports are natural nodes for hydrogen hubs. They host multiple end users, with short and long term energy supply requirements.
Leveraging Common Components in Finite Element Assembly Models
Aircraft manufacturers have long learned to take advantage of common components within design variants. For example, a typical airplane would have several design variants sharing the same wing, empennage and cockpit while having different lengths of fuselage. Significant cost savings can be achieved by reusing common components in aircraft and spacecraft assemblies.
The finite element analysis world, however, has not been able to fully leverage common components in assembly models. Components are typically organized as “include files” in an assembly model. But due to the strict requirement of unique FE entity IDs, these common component models cannot be easily reused. In order to be reused, a component model typically needs to be renumbered, repositioned, or reoriented. This process is not only time-consuming, but also prone to error.
In addition, a component model may appear in many design variants with thousands of load cases. It is not a trivial task to envelope and max/min search the loads associated with a component. Careful and tedious bookkeeping is required to keep track of which design variant and what loading event generated the critical component design loads.
This presentation will introduce an efficient assembly modelling method – the MSC Nastran Modules. This method eliminates the need for unique FE entity ID numbering, automates component connections, allows easy instancing (translate, mirror, and rotate) of components and generates modular results to streamline the enveloping and max/min search of loads. Real-world examples of a UVA drone, offshore wind turbine platform, and a truck frame assembly will be used to demonstrate the workflow and benefits of Modules.
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Reaching new Heights in Aerospace with Cloud-Based Engineering and CAE Simulations
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optimizing design and performance through multi-disciplinary optimization and surrogate models.
Discover the cutting-edge cloud hardware technology teams are using to analyze applications like wing
structural strength, turbine flow, antenna placement, and lightning strikes, and more. And, see how to run
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FlightLab: Readiness of SAF, electric and hydrogen infrastructure
When talking about sustainable aviation, we tend to focus on the development of the technology and say that the infrastructure development is challenging because it is an “egg and chicken” scenario. Yet, we need to have some level of infrastructure ready to support the aircraft when they enter the market. Therefore, we must understand the level of infrastructure needed when the aircraft enter the market and also further down the road. This debate will look at the level of infrastructure required to support sustainable aviation in the near term and how to futureproof it. When talking about looking at the infrastructure required, we can leverage the learnings we have had with other industries. While from an engineering perspective, all three infrastructures can be delivered, we must understand how they can become economically feasible and make sense in terms of energy intensity/requirements.