Rolls-Royce Electrical and Airborne to present at eVTOL Insights’ first Final Friday event of 2022 — registration now open

eVTOL Insights has announced its first Final Fri­day ‘vir­tu­al net­work­ing’ event of 2022, which will take place on Jan­u­ary 28th and fea­ture indus­try pre­sen­ta­tions from Rolls-Royce Elec­tri­cal and Air­borne, a tech­nol­o­gy leader in advanced com­pos­ites.

The ses­sions began in Feb­ru­ary 2021 and have been a great way for indus­try pro­fes­sion­als to vir­tu­al­ly con­nect and net­work face-to-face with con­tacts all over the world. Com­pa­nies that have pre­sent­ed at pre­vi­ous events include Flight Crowd, Varon Vehi­cles, Luft­Car, Astro Aero­space, Dufour Aero­space, AUTOFLUG, Electro.aero and the Com­mu­ni­ty Air Mobil­i­ty Ini­tia­tive (CAMI).

Rep­re­sent­ing Air­borne will be Jamie Snud­den, who is the com­pa­ny’s busi­ness devel­op­ment man­ag­er for the UK. Enthu­si­as­tic about both new avi­a­tion and help­ing to reduce glob­al emis­sions, both Jamie and Air­borne sup­port Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty busi­ness­es to devel­op their air­frames from ini­tial con­cepts through to ser­i­al pro­duc­tion.

With a PhD in aero­space engi­neer­ing look­ing at recy­cling of com­pos­ite mate­ri­als and an MBA, Jamie’s inter­ests lie in both the tech­no­log­i­cal aspects of nov­el aerostruc­ture devel­op­ment and the entre­pre­neur­ial and strate­gic aspects of a rapid­ly grow­ing mar­ket.

Air­borne is mak­ing good progress in the mar­ket and Jamie will talk about com­pos­ites indus­tri­al­i­sa­tion, as well as the chal­lenges of scale-up and indus­tri­al­i­sa­tion, and some solu­tions.

Our oth­er speak­er for Jan­u­ary’s vir­tu­al net­work­ing event is Ste­fan Bre­unig, who is Head of Strat­e­gy at Rolls-Royce Elec­tri­cal. He will pro­vide an update on what the com­pa­ny is doing in the advanced air mobil­i­ty space.

In par­tic­u­lar, the com­pa­ny’s tech­nol­o­gy is set to pow­er Ver­ti­cal Aerospace’s flag­ship eVTOL air­craft, the VA4.

A Rolls-Royce elec­tri­cal pow­er sys­tem will be inte­grat­ed into the pilot­ed all-elec­tric ver­ti­cal take-off and land­ing (eVTOL) vehi­cle, which will car­ry up to four pas­sen­gers for 120 miles at cruise speeds of over 200mph and is on course to cer­ti­fy in 2024.

Rolls-Royce will design the sys­tem archi­tec­ture of the whole elec­tri­cal propul­sion sys­tem, the elec­tric pow­er sys­tem that includes our lat­est 100kW-class lift and push elec­tri­cal propul­sion units, the pow­er dis­tri­b­u­tion and the mon­i­tor­ing sys­tem that will sup­port oper­a­tions.

Ste­fan is dri­ving strat­e­gy def­i­n­i­tion and exe­cu­tion for Rolls-Royce’s elec­tri­fi­ca­tion efforts in new emerg­ing mar­kets like Urban and Region­al Air Mobil­i­ty. He joined the Rolls-Royce team in 2019 with the acqui­si­tion of Siemens eAir­craft where he pre­vi­ous­ly worked as inno­va­tion man­ag­er. He holds a mas­ter’s degree and PhD in engi­neer­ing.

The event is from 4pm‑5.30pm GMT and you can reg­is­ter your place for free by click­ing here. There are only 75 places avail­able and once you have signed up, you will receive a cal­en­dar invite.

Any com­pa­nies inter­est­ed in pre­sent­ing at a future Final Fri­day event can email eVTOL Insights edi­tor Jason Pritchard at editorial@evtolinsights.com