14th Electric Aircraft Symposium to cover variety of topics in virtual event

A host of speak­ers from across the indus­try will cov­er all things hybrid-elec­tric and elec­tric CTOL, STOL and VTOL at this year’s Elec­tric Air­craft Sym­po­sium, which takes place from 28th to 30th July.

Organ­ised by the Com­par­a­tive Air­craft Flight Effi­cien­cy (CAFE) Foun­da­tion, the event was orig­i­nal­ly planned to be held in con­junc­tion with the Exper­i­men­tal Air­craft Asso­ci­a­tion (EAA) Air­Ven­ture in Oshkosh, Wis­con­sin. But Covid-19 restric­tions has meant it will instead be held vir­tu­al­ly.

In a draft agen­da pub­lished on the Ver­ti­cal Flight Soci­ety web­site, which is co-spon­sor­ing the event, com­pa­nies tak­ing part will include Air­flow, BAE Sys­tems, Bye Aero­space, Cana­di­an Air Mobil­i­ty, elFly, HyPoint, Inter­na­tion­al Vehi­cle Research, Mag­niX, NASA, Rolls-Royce, Sabrew­ing Air­craft, VoltAero and ZeroAvia.

Fol­low­ing an indus­try overview fea­tur­ing Mike Hirschberg of the Ver­ti­cal Flight Soci­ety and Col. Nathan Diller of the US Air Force and Agili­ty Prime, top­ics on day one include Commuter/Regional Air Ser­vice, UAM — Pas­sen­ger and Car­go, and UAM — Com­mu­ni­ty Inte­gra­tion.

Day two’s sched­ule will con­sist of Region­al Mar­kets, Hybrid Propul­sion Sys­tems, eSTOL Tech and Infra­struc­ture and Test­ing and Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, while the final day will talk about Elec­tric Motors, Ener­gy Sources, Air­line Mar­ket Dynam­ics and Elec­tric Propul­sion Sys­tems.

Reg­is­tra­tion for day one is free, $75 each for day two and three or $125 for both. Stu­dents will be charged $40 for each day. Ver­ti­cal Flight Soci­ety added that if you reg­is­ter for days two and three, you get 25 per cent off. This offer excludes stu­dents.

The Com­par­a­tive Air­craft Flight Effi­cien­cy (CAFE) Foun­da­tion was found­ed in 1981 and as non-prof­it organ­i­sa­tion, its mis­sion is to advance the devel­op­ment of low-emis­sion flight by fos­ter­ing and pro­mot­ing ear­ly entry prac­ti­cal mar­ket oppor­tu­ni­ties.

In 2007, CAFE Foun­da­tion host­ed the first Elec­tric Air­craft Sym­po­sium and four years lat­er, man­aged NASA’s Green Flight Chal­lenge, which was fund­ed by Google.

For more infor­ma­tion about and to reg­is­ter for the event, or to view a draft agen­da, vis­it