Presented By: Aerospace Engineering
AE585 Chairs Distinguished Seminar Series: Advancing Air Mobility, a Discussion of the Future EVTOL World
Nick Lappos
Senior Fellow
Sikorsky a Lockheed Martin Company
About the lecture:
A committee of the National Academy of Engineering released a report in the spring of 2020 that discusses the future world of advanced air mobility and presents a national blueprint for what that system might look like. Also identified were the areas that needed further work to ensure the successful introduction of air vehicles into that space. This presentation will discuss what that future world might look like, what the technical and social barriers to the introduction of these concepts are, and the path ahead for our society as our rural and urban areas adapt to low altitude vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. The discussion will include a brief introduction to the air vehicles, the key players in the development of the future system, and some of the barriers that must be overcome to ensure successful adaptation to that future. It will be sufficient time for questions from the audience to spark further understanding.
Bio:
Nick Lappos is Lockheed Martin Senior Fellow, and an Aerospace Engineering graduate of Georgia Tech. At Sikorsky Aircraft he served as program director for the S-92® helicopter during its development, where it earned the 2002 Robert J. Collier Trophy. He also served as director of Test Engineering and Chief Research and Development test pilot, logging more than 8,500 hours in over 70 different types of helicopters. Lappos holds 25 patents and three world records. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and their Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board.
Lappos was a vice president for Gulfstream Aerospace Corp., and senior vice president and chief technology officer for Bell Helicopter. His honors include Dean's List, Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma Gamma Tau. He is a member of the Academy of Distinguished Alumni of Georgia Tech, a recipient of the Sir Barnes Wallis Medal from the UK Guild of Air Pilots and Navigators, and an Honorary Fellow and Technical Fellow of the Vertical Flight Society, a recipient of their Frederick Feinberg Award, as well as their 2019 Nikolsky Honorary Lectureship. He received the Society of Experimental Test Pilots Tenhoff Award and the Twirly Bird’s Les Morris Award. He is an Associate Fellow in the AIAA. He is Chairman of the Vertical Lift Consortium. He is a decorated veteran of the Vietnam war, where he flew Cobra helicopters.
View in Boeing Lecture Hall, 1109 FXB or Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91746715474.
Senior Fellow
Sikorsky a Lockheed Martin Company
About the lecture:
A committee of the National Academy of Engineering released a report in the spring of 2020 that discusses the future world of advanced air mobility and presents a national blueprint for what that system might look like. Also identified were the areas that needed further work to ensure the successful introduction of air vehicles into that space. This presentation will discuss what that future world might look like, what the technical and social barriers to the introduction of these concepts are, and the path ahead for our society as our rural and urban areas adapt to low altitude vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. The discussion will include a brief introduction to the air vehicles, the key players in the development of the future system, and some of the barriers that must be overcome to ensure successful adaptation to that future. It will be sufficient time for questions from the audience to spark further understanding.
Bio:
Nick Lappos is Lockheed Martin Senior Fellow, and an Aerospace Engineering graduate of Georgia Tech. At Sikorsky Aircraft he served as program director for the S-92® helicopter during its development, where it earned the 2002 Robert J. Collier Trophy. He also served as director of Test Engineering and Chief Research and Development test pilot, logging more than 8,500 hours in over 70 different types of helicopters. Lappos holds 25 patents and three world records. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and their Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board.
Lappos was a vice president for Gulfstream Aerospace Corp., and senior vice president and chief technology officer for Bell Helicopter. His honors include Dean's List, Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma Gamma Tau. He is a member of the Academy of Distinguished Alumni of Georgia Tech, a recipient of the Sir Barnes Wallis Medal from the UK Guild of Air Pilots and Navigators, and an Honorary Fellow and Technical Fellow of the Vertical Flight Society, a recipient of their Frederick Feinberg Award, as well as their 2019 Nikolsky Honorary Lectureship. He received the Society of Experimental Test Pilots Tenhoff Award and the Twirly Bird’s Les Morris Award. He is an Associate Fellow in the AIAA. He is Chairman of the Vertical Lift Consortium. He is a decorated veteran of the Vietnam war, where he flew Cobra helicopters.
View in Boeing Lecture Hall, 1109 FXB or Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91746715474.
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