Please note: Attendance at Corporate Partner Briefings is exclusive to RAeS Corporate Partners.

2020 VISION - PER ARDUA AD ASTRA

Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton, Chief of the Air Staff

Mr Paul Verhoef
European GNSS Programmes Manager at the European Commission

Galileo is Europe’s fully autonomous satellite navigation system which will offer five state-of-the-art navigation services to users worldwide. Once fully deployed, it will feature a constellation of 30 satellites as well as a dedicated global ground infrastructure.

EGNOS is a system that improves the navigation signals of the American GPS system for users in Europe by providing higher accuracy and adding integrity for critical safety-of-life applications especially in the aviation sector. It started delivery of its first service in October 2009.

BRABAZON LECTURE “The Future, By Airbus”
Charles Champion
Executive Vice President of Engineering
Airbus S.A.S

40 Years ago, Airbus was born and immediately set out to create exciting and innovative aircraft to challenge the field of civil aviation. 100 years ago the Bristol Aeroplane Company was formed and the pioneers from those decades in the past have enabled current aerospace engineers to build on lessons learnt and develop technology for the future.

Today Airbus looks forward another 40 years to 2050 and beyond, discussing the anticipated global needs of a better connected and more sustainable world.

AEROSPACE FOR EUROPE – MORE THAN JUST FLYING

High Value, Low Carbon, Europes Future

The most important multistakeholder high level roundtable congress in Brussels in December 2010.
This is the aerospace event of the year where decision maker of the most leading European industry, politics and research meet.

Change!  Innovation!  Vision 2050!

Spring 2011 Flight Simulation Conference

The World Outside The Aircraft - Simulating The Operational Environment

Much progress has been made and discussed in previous RAeS Flight Simulation Group Conferences on the simulation of an aircraft and its operational systems for use in flight crew training. International standards have even been drafted in the civil arena defining required levels of simulation fidelity as a function of training tasks.

Securing the vision for the next half century

On the 12 April 1961, Vostok 1 lifted off from the Soviet Cosmodrome in Baikonur with cosmonaut Major Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin on board. Gagarin was the first human being to leave the Earth’s atmosphere, and although his flight was to last only 1 hour 48 minutes, circling the Earth just once, it provoked important political, social, cultural and technical changes, and changed humanity’s perspective of its place on Earth forever.

The fiftieth anniversary of this flight provides an opportunity for a conference combining elements of historical review, assessment of the social and cultural impact of the event in the UK, Russia, and worldwide, and consideration of areas of scientific endeavour of common interest to both Russia and the West. The anniversary occurs as the long term objectives and strategy for human spaceflight are being questioned in both Russia and the West, making this an appropriate moment to revisit that first flight. To this end, a programme of lectures and discussions is being prepared involving significant Russian involvement. The aims of the conference are to:

• review the impact of Gagarin’s flight on space technology and space applications – in the UK and world-wide
• review the social, cultural and political impact of Gagarin’s flight – in the UK and world-wide
• review progress / achievements of the first joint UK-Russia celebratory ISS project agreed with Russian technical experts in July 2010
• discuss the legacy of Gagarin in the context of today’s space programmes – in the UK and world-wide.

Topics to be discussed will include five application areas identified by a joint UK-Russia forum as being of particular interest, namely space medicine and psychology, satellite communication technologies, optics and instrument systems, monitoring and natural disasters, and robotics and autonomous operations. The historical and cultural dimensions will also be given full attention.

Additionally, the conference will provide an opportunity to identify ways in which further unique collaborative ventures can be developed for the future, delivering benefit to both the UK and Russia.

The conference will be of interest to both the scientific and cultural communities. In the scientific and industrial sectors, it will appeal to those in the fields of exploration, human spaceflight, microgravity, space medicine and psychology, robotics, space mechanisms, communication technologies, optics and instruments, monitoring / natural disasters. On the humanities side, it will appeal to those working in culture and the arts (film, museums, galleries etc.), 20th century history, international politics, human destiny, and education (outreach).

There will be a strong networking element to the conference and both formal and informal opportunities for this will be provided.

Full programme to follow soon.

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Young Members Conference

In a media environment of escalating costs and increased cutbacks, the aviation world needs to maintain its position at the forefront of technological development to avoid stagnation and be able to rise to meet the new challenges.

Classified Conference

Enduring Campaigns are a feature of warfare and in this context mean those operations that require a sustained, long-term presence of a military force in order to assist a country to achieve an acceptable end state.

Designing Light Aircraft - More Methods and Tools

The Conference will develop the theme successfully launched at the 2009 GAG Conference (Design Methods and Tools for Light Aircraft) which aimed to review design data, design software and affordable tools now available to designers and entrepreneurs.

The 2010 conference will address topics highlighted in the 2009 post-Conference reviews. It will build on the broad overview with further insight into the utility of specific computer tools, and specific aerodynamic, structural and manufacturing issues. Again we have invited speakers who are active in their fields so that presentations are pertinent to the design challenges of today.

The Challenges for Flight Simulation - The Next Steps

Has Flight Simulation technology reached a plateau? Are there still challenges to be resolved?

Unmanned Aircraft

There are many obstacles to, but also opportunities for, the routine national and international commercial exploitation of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).

Volcanic Ash

The eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland this spring caused significant disruption in air traffic throughout the United Kingdom and much of Europe.

Looking for work in the aerospace industry?

Whether you need a job, want to change jobs or are just looking for advice, the Aerospace Careers Event aims to bring you closer together with our industry links!

2nd Aircraft Structural Design Conference

The Royal Aeronautical Society’s 2nd Aircraft Design Conference will address the challenges facing the designers of the next generation civil aircraft that will be complex and have to operate under strict environmental rules in an ever increasing market.

Cdr Mario Carretta OBE BSc (Hons) MRAeS RN

Commanding Officer, Rotary Wing Test & Evaluation Squadron, Air Warfare Centre, MOD Boscombe Down

The Rotary Wing Test & Evaluation Squadron is a Tri-Service unit based at MoD Boscombe Down and now works as part of the Air Warfare Centre alongside QinetiQ within the Air Test and Evaluation Collaboration.  Primarily responsible for assisting with the provision of Release to Service recommendations for helicopters and their equipment, the Squadron has been involved in a number of high profile projects in recent years including the Chinook Mk3 and the Carson Blade modification for Sea Kings.  Future projects include Puma Mk2, Merlin Mk2, Wildcat and Chinook Mk4 and Mk6.  Amongst many changes to Test & Evaluation, one of the more positive is the drive towards better integration and this has led increasingly to the Squadron working as part of a combined test team with industry and members of the operational evaluation community.

Chaired by Dame Deirdre Hutton, Chair, Civil Aviation Authority

The Royal Aeronautical Society Air Transport Group Committee is holding a debate on the impact of the three Global Airline Alliances (Star, SkyTeam & Oneworld) on air travellers.

Dr Michael Pryce, Manchester Business School

The Hawker Siddeley P.1154 was a supersonic V/STOL strike fighter designed by the same team that gave the world the successful Harrier family.