Join Aerospace America associate editor Cat Hofacker for a Q&A with Tom Prevot, air taxi product lead at Joby, about the California eVTOL company’s efforts to begin air taxi passenger flights in 2024. Time will be reserved at the end for audience questions.
Session Filter: the HUB & Exposition
Lilium: An Air Taxi to Revolutionize the Way We Travel
A presentation on Lilium vision for revolutionize the way we travel offering the first Urban Air Mobility service. The four pillars of Lilium’s vision are to democratize travel, connect the unconnected, reduce our impact on the environment, and use technology as a force for good. The 5 seats Lilium Jet will be presented as well.
Fly Like a Girl Documentary Screening (with popcorn!)
Join us for a special screening of Fly Like a Girl. Fly Like A Girl is more than just a film. It’s a movement of young girls and women relentlessly pursuing their passion for aviation. A field currently dominated by men. Hearing first-hand stories from girls and women who dared to aim higher. From a lego-loving young girl who includes female pilots in her toy airplanes, to a courageous woman who helped lead shuttle missions to space, Fly Like A Girl shows us that women are in charge of their own destiny. Grab some popcorn, relax and enjoy!
Controlled Explosives in Aerospace Application (How We Learned to Love Things That Go Boom!)
So you are thinking of where you want to take your career? Energetic components allow you to touch every portion of space launch, beginning to end……Within the energetics industry there is a whole host of products in the space launch, tactical missile, automotive and commercial ordnance produced at very high reliability and low relative costs. High energy density of pyrotechnics provides a lot of work (large energy source / high mechanical power) in a small package – that is the boom! We now know that the successful engineer or scientist in the industry gets to apply everything from classical statics/dynamics through in depth chemical engineering to pure statistics! We get to do it all….
F-35 Lightning II Discussion
An integrated story of the technical development of the F-35 Lightning II has heretofore never been presented in a single work. Visit the HUB as Lockheed Martin representatives debut The F-35 Lightning II: From Concept to Cockpit, the newly released book that chronicles a full-spectrum history of the design, development, and verification of the F-35 Lightning II as described by the engineers, scientists and managers intimately involved throughout the development program. Come listen as one of the book’s authors discusses the history and recent developments on the F-35 program.
Extended Q&A with Roberto Guerrero
Meet the Author with Daniel P. Raymer
Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach and RDSwin Student software
Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach presents the entire process of aircraft conceptual design—from requirements definition to initial sizing, configuration layout, analysis, sizing, optimization, and trade studies. Widely used in industry and government aircraft design groups, it also the design text at major universities around the world. A virtual encyclopedia of engineering, it is known for its completeness, easy-to-read style, and real-world approach to the process of design. The RDSwin Student software allows engineering students to take an aircraft design from first conceptual layout through functional analysis, leading to performance, range, weight, and cost results. By automating the “grunt work” of vehicle analysis, RDSwin Student makes time for the student to truly learn design. Stop by to see Dan demonstrate an aircraft design using his RDSwin Student software. He will also sign copies of his book Aircraft Design.
OmegA Rocket – Affordable, Reliable Access to Space
The OmegA rocket uses solely solid propulsion for the boost phases of flight, and RL-10 engines or the upper stage. Northrop Grumman is rapidly developing and qualifying the intermediate/heavy lift OmegA rocket to be affordable and low risk—essential characteristics for launching critical national security payloads and large commercial satellites.
How to Publish with AIAA
AIAA is the leading aerospace publisher. Join our Prerecorded Zoom webinar on how to publish with AIAA meeting papers, journals, books, magazine or how to participate on an AIAA standards committee. Including a Q&A with live staff. Learn more about AIAA Publications.
An Introduction to Purdue Orbital
Purdue Orbital is a dynamic interdisciplinary team made up entirely of Purdue students with the goal of delivering a low-Earth orbit launch vehicle for cube satellites. Orbital has decided to take the novel ‘rockoon’ approach which consists of launching a custom-built rocket from a high-altitude polyethylene balloon at an altitude of 25 kilometers. This ambitious goal has required a lot from the students involved. Labeled a “startup simulator”, Purdue Orbital aims to provide its members with a unique opportunity to work together to accomplish tasks related to science, engineering, management, marketing, and business development all with the common goal of designing and funding our rockoon system. Orbital is currently working towards the first flight of its fully-integrated rockoon system in December 2019, and the first hot-fire of its hybrid rocket motor prototype the following May.