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Lilium announces new Chief Technology Officer to help bring its Lilium Jet to market

Lil­i­um has wel­comed Alas­tair McIn­tosh as its new Chief Tech­nol­o­gy Offi­cer and Head of Design Organ­i­sa­tion, who will focus on lead­ing the team ahead of bring­ing its Lil­i­um Jet eVTOL air­craft to mar­ket.

With more than thir­ty years of expe­ri­ence in aero­space, from new prod­ucts through to sup­port­ing the fleet, McIn­tosh spent the major­i­ty of his career at Rolls-Royce where he led 1,500 engi­neers at Rolls-Royce Ger­many as Man­ag­ing Direc­tor and Head of Engi­neer­ing and Tech­nol­o­gy.

He start­ed as a Design Engi­neer at Rolls-Royce UK in 1987, and has held mul­ti­ple Chief Engi­neer roles which includ­ed over­look­ing the Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engine of the Air­bus A350, and Rolls-Royce BR725 of the Gulf­stream G650.

Dur­ing his tenure as Head of Engi­neer­ing and Tech­nol­o­gy at Rolls-Royce Ger­many, Alas­tair was a EASA Form 4 hold­er and account­able to pro­vide engi­neer­ing func­tion­al lead­er­ship, prod­uct safe­ty and con­tin­ued air­wor­thi­ness for a fleet of approx­i­mate­ly 6,000 engines.

Dur­ing his time in this role under his lead­er­ship, the Pearl15 (Bom­bardier G5000/6500) was cer­ti­fied and passed into ser­vice, the Pearl700 (Gulf­stream G700) was devel­oped and suc­cess­ful­ly pro­gressed into the Flight Test cam­paign.

Alas­tair was also account­able to shape strat­e­gy and define inno­v­a­tive tech­nol­o­gy for gas tur­bines, pure and hybrid-elec­tri­cal propul­sion sys­tems. This includ­ed ini­tia­tives for envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly tech­nolo­gies such as Sus­tain­able Avi­a­tion Fuels and Hydro­gen.       

Alas­tair holds an Hon­ours degree in Mechan­i­cal Engi­neer­ing from Heri­ot-Watt Uni­ver­si­ty, is a Char­tered Engi­neer with the Insti­tu­tion of Mechan­i­cal Engi­neers and a Fel­low of the Roy­al Aero­nau­ti­cal Soci­ety.

He also held the posi­tion of BDLI (Ger­man Aero­space Indus­tries Asso­ci­a­tion) Board Mem­ber for five years.

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Jason Pritchard

Jason Pritchard is the Editor of eVTOL Insights. He holds a BA from Leicester's De Montfort University and has worked in Journalism and Public Relations for more than a decade. Outside of work, Jason enjoys playing and watching football and golf. He also has a keen interest in Ancient Egypt.

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