Virtual exhibit hall at Vertical Flight Society’s Forum 77 event open to the general public for first time

The Ver­ti­cal Flight Soci­ety will open up the vir­tu­al exhib­it hall at its upcom­ing Forum 77 event — sched­uled to take place vir­tu­al­ly from May 10th to 14th — to the broad­er ver­ti­cal flight com­mu­ni­ty for the first time.

The event is the world’s lead­ing inter­na­tion­al con­fer­ence on VTOL air­craft tech­nol­o­gy — with every­thing from advanced rotor­craft to advanced air mobil­i­ty.

The Annu­al Forum is nor­mal­ly a closed event for pay­ing reg­is­trants only but — in an effort to help sup­port the glob­al ver­ti­cal flight indus­try when the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic con­tin­ues to con­strain inter­ac­tions with clients and poten­tial new prospects — VFS has opened up the Forum’s vir­tu­al exhib­it hall at no charge.

Mike Hirschberg, VFS Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, said: “Every year, the world’s lead­ing VTOL tech­nol­o­gists, inno­va­tors and lead­ers come togeth­er at the Society’s Annu­al Forum. The knowl­edge shar­ing between indus­try, acad­e­mia and gov­ern­ment per­son­nel in the pre­sen­ta­tions and with the exhibitors plays an impor­tant role in advanc­ing ver­ti­cal flight tech­nol­o­gy.”

The Forum 77 exhib­it hall is being held from May 11th to 13th after the tech­ni­cal paper pre­sen­ta­tions, to max­imise the oppor­tu­ni­ty for every­one in the heli­copter / VTOL com­mu­ni­ty to view the vir­tu­al exhibits and attend the Exhib­it Hall Tech­ni­cal Brief­in­gs, which were a big hit last year.

VFS has inte­grat­ed these 30-minute talks into the over­all Forum 77 pro­gram this year, cov­er­ing top­ics such as advanced com­pos­ites, air­craft design, autonomous VTOL, avion­ics, elec­tron­ics, sys­tems engi­neer­ing and trans­mis­sion tech­nol­o­gy. 

The vir­tu­al exhib­it hall will fea­ture dozens of VTOL-relat­ed com­pa­nies which will be pre­sent­ing the lat­est devel­op­ments in ver­ti­cal flight tech­nol­o­gy, show­cas­ing their advance­ments in air­frame, propul­sion, avion­ics, sys­tems inte­gra­tion, mod­el­ing and sim­u­la­tion and elec­tric VTOL tech­nol­o­gy.

Atten­dees can review exhibitors’ vir­tu­al booths, col­lect infor­ma­tion and inter­act with exhibitor booth per­son­nel, ask ques­tions and get prod­uct demon­stra­tions. The sched­uled Exhibitor Tech­ni­cal Brief­in­gs pro­vide atten­dees with a more com­pre­hen­sive overview of the company’s capa­bil­i­ties and ser­vices.

Hirschberg added: “With a vir­tu­al exhib­it hall, it has some­times been hard­er for atten­dees to learn about cut­ting-edge devel­op­ments. These Exhibitor Tech­ni­cal Brief­in­gs, how­ev­er, pro­vide an inter­ac­tive way for atten­dees to get the lat­est infor­ma­tion in a clear and con­cise man­ner.” 

The 77th Annu­al Forum and Tech­nol­o­gy Dis­play includes some 230 tech­ni­cal paper pre­sen­ta­tions on every dis­ci­pline from acoustics to unmanned sys­tems, as well as more than 50 VIP speak­ers from indus­try and gov­ern­ment organ­i­sa­tions. This year, up to 1,200 atten­dees are expect­ed to par­tic­i­pate. 

Indi­vid­u­als inter­est­ed in tak­ing advan­tage of the free exhib­it hall-only reg­is­tra­tion must reg­is­ter in advance. This free reg­is­tra­tion does not include access to the Forum 77 tech­ni­cal and spe­cial ses­sions, record­ings or pro­ceed­ings.

For more infor­ma­tion about the event, exhibitors and reg­is­tra­tion rates, vis­it