{"id":11946,"date":"2018-10-25T12:41:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T19:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/?p=11946"},"modified":"2018-10-25T12:41:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T19:41:39","slug":"2018-electric-aircraft-symposium-now-on-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/2018-electric-aircraft-symposium-now-on-line\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Electric Aircraft Symposium Now On Line"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you could not attend AirVenture 2018, the CAFE Foundation has recorded and made available all 19 presentations from the Electric Aircraft Symposium<\/a>.\u00a0 Hosted by Yolanka Wulff, CAFE\u2019s Executive Director, this high-level course in revolutionary aerodynamics, futuristic thinking and potential rules and regulations for all this creativity, EAS 2018 drew a wealth of great speakers.<\/p>\n

You can tap into this wealth here.\u00a0 Enjoy learning about the turbulent history of VTOL flight from Todd Hodges<\/strong>, a retired engineer from NASA Langley.\u00a0 He explores why otherwise brilliantly engineered vertical takeoff and landing machines failed, and ends with a note of hope, with DEP and DEAC allowing configurations that solve a lot of problems.<\/p>\n

Willi Tacke<\/strong>, Founder and Organizer of the e-Flight-Expo and CEO of Flying Pages GmbH, an international publisher of light aircraft directories in four languages, gave a review of what\u2019s flying now.<\/p>\n

Keeping it real, Michael Friend<\/strong>, Chief Engineer for Future Platforms (Retired) for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, and responsible for the first fuel-cell powered aircraft, brings his practical experience to \u201c<\/strong>Balancing Optimism and Realism in Electric Aircraft Design<\/em><\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gilles Rosenberger<\/strong>, industrial engineer for the Airbus E-Fan project and CEO of Faraday, takes a daring look at the future, attempting to predict where electric flight will be in 2028.<\/p>\n

Kevin Noertker<\/strong>, Co-founder and CEO of Ampaire, and sponsor of the Symposium, discusses, \u201cAccelerating the World’s Transition to Sustainable Aviation<\/em><\/a>\u201d\u00a0 He shows a series of logical steps Ampaire is taking to make their future craft a reality.<\/p>\n

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Ampaire’s Kevin Noertker explains his firm’s design to a group of Boy Scouts<\/p><\/div>\n

Josh Portlock<\/strong>, Founder and Chairman of Electro.Aero.Pty.Ltd in Australia, talks about his career in electric aviation, including making the first electric aircraft cross-country flight on his home turf.\u00a0 He discusses two major building blocks to sustainable aviation, electrofans and universal charging \u2013 while showing the multiplicity of plugs available today.<\/p>\n

Bye Aerospace CEO George Bye<\/strong> gives a background and forecast for his two- and four-seat Sun Flyers.<\/p>\n

Rosenberger, Noertker and Portlock engage in a panel discussion about their experiences as Electric Aircraft Developers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Omer Bar-Yohay<\/strong>, Co-founder and CEO of Eviation, discusses his firm\u2019s nine-seat, autonomously-controlled electric aircraft, designed from the beginning to have ultralight construction and a powerful battery installation.\u00a0 He anticipates manned flight tests in 2019 and production in 2022, and his talk emphasizes how valuable partnerships can make that happen.<\/p>\n