“VFS to Focus on Hydrogen Aviation at Fourth Annual H2-Aero Symposium”

Under the theme “push­ing the enve­lope”, the Ver­ti­cal Flight Soci­ety (VFS) is pub­li­cis­ing its Fourth Annu­al H2-Aero Sym­po­sium on April 2nd and 3rd as “the most com­pre­hen­sive hydro­gen avi­a­tion con­fer­ence,” reports a press release. Held at the Long Beach Hotel in Cal­i­for­nia, the event is in con­junc­tion with the SAE Inter­na­tion­al Hydro­gen Com­mit­tee meet­ing on April 1st, which is open to all.

Details

Glob­al lead­ers from hydro­gen and aero­space com­pa­nies will be attend­ing. These include Boe­ing, H2FLY, Hydroplane, Joby Avi­a­tion, KLM Roy­al Dutch Air­lines, Piasec­ki Air­craft and ZeroAvia. Hydro­gen devel­op­ers such as Auro­ra Flight Sci­ences and Unmanned Aero­space as well spe­cial­ist tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­nies like Gloy­er-Tay­lor Lab­o­ra­to­ries (GTL), H2MOF, Hon­ey­well, Pow­er­Cell and Unither Bio­elec­tron­ics will also be involved. 

Key gov­ern­ment speak­ers include rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the U.S Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion (FAA), the UK Civ­il Avi­a­tion Author­i­ty (CAA) and the Euro­pean Union Avi­a­tion Safe­ty Agency (EASA), as well as NASA, the Nation­al Renew­able Ener­gy Lab­o­ra­to­ry (NREL). Oth­er key talks include insights from the Inter­na­tion­al Air Trans­port Asso­ci­a­tion (IATA), SAE Inter­na­tion­al and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, Irvine. 

Mike Hirschberg (Cred­it: VFS)

Mike Hirschberg, VFS Direc­tor of Strat­e­gy, remarked, “Cut­ting-edge inno­va­tions from hydro­gen tech­nolo­gies to gov­ern­ment poli­cies will be shown from a wide spec­trum of air­craft appli­ca­tions.”

Jesse Schnei­der, Chair of H2-Aero Sym­po­sium and CEO/CTO of ZEV Sta­tion, added, “Lead­ing experts from gov­ern­ments, air­craft, hydro­gen and fuel cell indus­tries will present ground­break­ing advances, ‘push­ing the enve­lope’ in hydro­gen avi­a­tion.”

VFS was found­ed as the Amer­i­can Heli­copter Soci­ety in 1943 by the vision­ar­ies of the ear­ly heli­copter indus­try who believed that tech­no­log­i­cal coop­er­a­tion and col­lab­o­ra­tion were essen­tial to sup­port this new type of air­craft. Today, his­to­ry is repeat­ing itself, with the Soci­ety play­ing a sim­i­lar role with today’s rev­o­lu­tion­ary AAM air­craft.

The 2025 Symposium’s plat­inum spon­sors are Joby Avi­a­tion, Piasec­ki and Unit­ed Ther­a­peu­tics, while GTL, Pow­er­Cell and SAE Inter­na­tion­al are gold spon­sors. Exhibitors include JHG Indus­tries, M4 Engi­neer­ing and Pow­er­Cell.

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(Top image: The Joby SHy4 com­plet­ed a 561-mile flight with liq­uid hydro­gen in 2024 — cred­it: Joby Avi­a­tion)

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