DATE:

Friday, March 26, 2021

TIME:

1:00 PM – 4:00PM

LOCATION:

Virtual Zoom Conference

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Christopher Silva, Research Aerospace Engineer, NASA Ames Research Center

ABSTRACT:

In the 1950s and 1960s, you could affordably fly scheduled service from helipad to helipad in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, bypassing traffic in a time when few freeways existed. Since the 1970s, the cost and availability of intra-urban flight has been out of reach of nearly everybody in the United States, with scheduled service finally ending in San Francisco in the early 1980s. In the intervening 40 years, great strides have been made in technology and scientific understanding, and a growing group of researchers and entrepreneurs are working to make the next decade the beginning of the sustained era of widespread urban air mobility. It is reasonable to expect that in our lifetimes, we will routinely move packages, cargo, and people through the air above where we live and work. Advances in computational capability and electrical power storage and distribution are among the enabling technologies promising to make urban flight affordable, safe, and efficient. This future relies on thousands of talented, educated, and bold engineers, scientists, and technicians working together to tackle known and emerging challenges. This presentation will introduce Urban Air Mobility concepts, some of the technology developments driving the industry forward, and the challenges which computational science can overcome.

Bio: Chris Silva is an aerospace engineer at NASA Ames Research Center, leading a multi-Research Center team of engineers working to improve methods for conceptual design of advanced vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.

Urban Air Mobility

Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology (RVLT)

Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign

HOST:

CSRC

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