We are nearing a new era of commercial supersonic operation. The industry is collaborating across sectors to ensure the tools are ready to meet the mission for faster civilian travel.
Whether technical, regulatory, environmental or manufacturing challenges, hear about the strategy to assess and solve these challenges to make speed a reality.
Aerospace is entering its next age, as increasing levels of autonomy lead to a fundamental transformation in how people and goods move. Enabling this future will require new skills, new thinking, and new approaches to aircraft design, airspace management, and the role of humans in the aviation ecosystem. The panel today will peer into that future, to anticipate the exciting changes that are expected in aerospace, followed by a conversation on the skills and expertise that will be needed in the next generation of aerospace professionals.
The Transformational Flight Certification Symposium focuses on building type certification into the design of advanced aircraft. Attendees will learn about the FAA certification process and the role of ASTM, SAE, GAMA, and RTCA standards and guidelines in the certification process. The symposium will feature panelists from FAA offices, and leaders of standards committees discussing their roadmaps. A panel of advanced aircraft manufacturers will speak about their experiences working through product development toward design certification.
0930 – 1030 EDT
Panelist: Lowell Foster, Director of Global Innovation and Engineering, GAMA
Foster will provide a realistic and useful guide to aircraft designers who are turning their dreams into a marketable product. Includes questions that the applicant needs to answer to define special conditions and certification plans for design, and operational approaches not presently covered under certification standards.
1030 – 1130 EDT
Moderator: Wes Ryan, Unmanned and Pilotless Aircraft Technology Lead,
Policy & Innovation Division, FAA
Panelists: Gary Horan, Propulsion Standards Staff, Electric/Hybrid-Electric Propulsion Focal, Policy & Innovation Division, FAA
David Jenson, Small Airplane Standards, Electric Propulsion Lead, Policy & Innovation Division, FAA
Andy Supinie, Propulsion Standards Staff, Electric/Hybrid-Electric Focal Policy & Innovation Division, FAA
The FAA perspective on certification on novel and emerging aircraft technologies and operations. Learn how to work with the FAA and get your aircraft certified and into service.
1130 – 1330 EDT
Moderator: Lowell Foster, Director of Global Innovation and Engineering, GAMA
Panelists:
Greg Bowles, Head of Government Affairs, Joby
Patrick Darmstadt, Drive and Power Systems Engineer and Technologist at the Boeing Company
Andrew Gibson, President, ES Aero
Tom Gunnarson, Wisk
Luciano Serra, Head of Systems Integrity, magniX
Tine Tomazsic, Group CTO, Pipistrel Vertical Solutions
Manufacturers share their experiences introducing electric propulsion into operational aircraft, and the challenges they experienced with their civil aviation authorities around the world. They will also share their lessons, in which the civil aviation authorities have evolved their certification, and in some cases, regulatory framework, to address the new technologies. The manufacturers discuss the importance of building standards from which means-of-compliance can be established, and its effect on the manufacturing process.
1400 – 1630 EDT
Moderator: Wes Ryan, Unmanned and Pilotless Aircraft Technology Lead at Federal Aviation Administration
Panelists:
Ella Atkins, Professor, Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Michigan
Anna Dietrich, Consultant, Policy for Innovative General Aviation
Noel Duerksen, Consultant
Borja Martos, President, Flight Level Engineering
David Sizoo, Project Manager, FAA
New research and work is being poured into increasing automation onboard aircraft toward future autonomy. How will autonomy be certified? Emergency autonomous autoland was slated for certification by the FAA in 2019. ASTM working group 377 is working on the Three Pillars of Autonomy to set a standardization path leading to certifiable avionics. This panel will discuss these breakthroughs, what’s coming next, and how to work within these paths to lead a new design to certification.
Vertical Lift missions are changing and the systems are becoming more complex. The requirements for faster, further, more payload, better efficiency, and lower noise are driving new designs of helicopters, tiltrotors, or hybrid-electric urban mobility; military or civilian; manned or unmanned air vehicles. How are OEMs responding to these challenges? What are the performance, manufacturability, and affordability trade-offs? What are the hurdles left to navigate? Learn from leading OEMs about their newest vehicles and their vision for the future of vertical lift.