PODCAST: Paulo Venancio of Expleo on why Safety, Certification and Digital Innovation Must Evolve Together

Our lat­est pod­cast episode is live! This week, we were joined by Paulo Venan­cio, Aero­space Chief Engi­neer at Expleo.

Paulo dis­cuss the engi­neer­ing real­i­ties of bring­ing advanced air mobil­i­ty from flight test­ing to com­mer­cial oper­a­tions.

He argues that cer­ti­fi­ca­tion remains the indus­try’s defin­ing mile­stone, with suc­cess­ful flight test cam­paigns pro­vid­ing reg­u­la­tors the con­fi­dence need­ed to approve new air­craft. Pao­lo explains how star­tups must build indus­tri­al­i­sa­tion, sup­ply chains, air­wor­thi­ness capa­bil­i­ties and long-term sup­port struc­tures along­side air­craft devel­op­ment, rather than after cer­ti­fi­ca­tion.

He also high­lights the grow­ing role of dig­i­tal engi­neer­ing, dig­i­tal twins and AI-dri­ven mod­el­ling in reduc­ing devel­op­ment time while main­tain­ing the rig­or­ous safe­ty stan­dards expect­ed in aero­space.

Draw­ing on Explio’s expe­ri­ence sup­port­ing sev­er­al lead­ing eVTOL man­u­fac­tur­ers, he out­lines how com­bin­ing tra­di­tion­al aero­space exper­tise with emerg­ing tech­nolo­gies can accel­er­ate devel­op­ment with­out com­pro­mis­ing cer­ti­fi­ca­tion.

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