Enabling Electric Flight for Everyone with Intelligent Simulation Technologies

Tim Crundwell, Senior Composite Stress Engineer at Vertical Aerospace, presents at the UK Altair Technology Conference 2022.

In late 2021 Vertical Aerospace became a public company, giving us the means to bring our VX4 eVTOL aircraft to market and deliver on our vision of bringing safer, cleaner and quieter air travel to everyone.

The 20th century saw rapid advances in science and technology that transformed how people live beyond all recognition. Urbanisation lifted billions out of poverty; the combustion engine allowed cars to reshape our cities and the aeroplane to bridge continents - bringing people from all over the world closer together.

However, the technologies that powered the last century are choking our progress today. Existing urban infrastructure is creaking. Traffic congestion is becoming unbearable and uneconomic, and air quality is worsening in almost all major cities. Something has to change.

Fortunately, we are on the cusp of something equally transformational through the electrification of flight. In just a few years’ time it will be possible for most people to travel between and through cities in almost-silent, electrically-powered aircraft.

From rotor blades to structural airframe the Altair products have become an essential tool to enable us to design the lightest, stiffest, safest structures possible