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Podcast Ep. #20 – Airbus Engineer Oliver Family on the E-Fan X Demonstrator

On November 6, 2018 · In Aircraft, Electric Aviation, Podcast, Propulsion

Oliver Family is the Overall Aircraft Design Leader of the Airbus E-Fan X demonstrator. The E-Fan X is a hybrid-electric technology demonstrator being developed by Airbus, Rolls-Royce and Siemens based on a British Aerospace 146 regional airliner. The driver behind the E-Fan X demonstrator is that current aircraft designs have converged to a near-optimum, and with existing […]

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Podcast Ep. #3 – Airbus Senior Expert Ian Lane on the A350, Innovation in Aerospace, and Diversity in Engineering

On December 19, 2017 · In Aerospace Engineering, Aircraft, Composite Materials, Composites, Helicopters, History, Podcast

“You could say: What could we possibly do next? You look back at history and say: All the shelves must be full now! We must have the capabilities to do everything we need. And yet, we still go on…It’s your generation that is going to Mars. So please, can you get on with it and […]

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