Manta Aircraft’s Long Range Hybrid Electric eVSTOL Program “to be Supported by Altair”

Man­ta Air­craft announced this week that Altair, a leader in com­pu­ta­tion­al intel­li­gence, has signed an agree­ment to col­lab­o­rate on the devel­op­ment of its ANN series of eVS­TOL Air­craft, reports a press release. The announce­ment was made at the recent Abu Dhabi DRIFTx event. Focus will be on Altair’s Aero­space Accel­er­a­tor Pro­gram aimed at advanc­ing the design of the scal­able fam­i­ly of next-gen­er­a­tion air­craft.

The Accel­er­a­tor Pro­gram “offers unlim­it­ed sim­u­la­tion and data ana­lyt­ics soft­ware, as well as unlim­it­ed online and self-paced train­ing, all while ensur­ing com­plete con­trol for par­tic­i­pat­ing enti­ties,” explains the release. “As part of the col­lab­o­ra­tion, Altair will pro­vide soft­ware tools and com­pu­ta­tion­al intel­li­gence solu­tions in the areas of dig­i­tal engi­neer­ing, AI and data ana­lyt­ics tech­nolo­gies. This sup­port will dras­ti­cal­ly accel­er­ate Man­ta Air­craft’s jour­ney, reduce risks and costs and facil­i­tate data-dri­ven crit­i­cal deci­sion-mak­ing process­es.”

ANN 2 eVS­TOL Air­craft (Graph­ic Image)

Lucas March­esi­ni, CEO of Man­ta Air­craft, com­ment­ed, “We are con­fi­dent that with Altair’s exper­tise, we can solve out­stand­ing tech­ni­cal chal­lenges in the var­i­ous areas of the Man­ta design by util­is­ing the vari­ety of tools now made avail­able to us.”

Pao­lo Colom­bo, Direc­tor of Strat­e­gy, Aero­space and Defense at Altair, added, “This com­mit­ment is exem­pli­fied through our sup­port of promis­ing star­tups like Man­ta Air­craft, pro­vid­ing an accel­er­a­tion pro­gram designed to over­come the spe­cif­ic chal­lenges of the aero­space indus­try.”

Man­ta Air­craft will utilise these resources to finalise a design, in prepa­ra­tion for the man­u­fac­tur­ing of 1:1 scale pro­to­types of its ANN2 demon­stra­tor with­in the next 12 months. Addi­tion­al­ly, the com­pa­ny will con­tin­ue the design of oth­er mod­els such as the ANN Plus, a ver­sa­tile mul­ti-seater with 6 seats, as well as a drone con­fig­u­ra­tion.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.mantaaircraft.com/

https://altair.com/data-analytics

(Top image: Pao­lo Colom­bo and Lucas March­esi­ni Sign­ing the Agree­ment)

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