BTETalks - Hybrid Air Vehicles: Rethinking The Skies

Anastasios “Tassos” Kokkalis, Head of Flight Science and Simulations at Hybrid Air Vehicles will discuss how Airlander delivers a future of zero-carbon aviation, connecting the unconnected.

The event explores the role that Airlander’s hybrid aircraft technology plays in delivering a new category in aviation.  With the potential to make air services more efficient, more available, more equitable and more sustainable. Airlander connects the unconnected, overcoming bottlenecks in today’s transport systems, delivering new economic opportunities in underserved places, and breaking the link between air services and emissions.

The talk will cover the Head of Flight Science’s and Simulations vision and strategic direction for the flight science team. With insights into the design, construction, and testing of flight science experiments and digital prototypes will outline how these efforts contribute to HAV’s goals for an environmentally friendly aircraft.

The Hybrid Air Vehicles plans to build Airlander 10 in Doncaster, South Yorkshire and will create over 1,200 jobs and a new green aerospace cluster for the region.

Programme:

17:00 Welcome and networking with refreshments

17:30-18:30 BTETalks 'Hybrid Air Vehicles: Rethinking The Skies'

18:30 Networking with refreshments

19:00 (approx) Close

About the Speaker:

Anastasios Kokkalis - Head of Flight Sciences & Simulations at Hybrid Air Vehicles Ltd

Anastasios “Tassos” Kokkalis is a top-performing innovative technical and academic leader with over 40 years of international managerial and engineering R&D experience in the Aerospace industry and academia.

Since 2018, he has been the Head of Flights Sciences & Simulations for Hybrid Air Vehicles Ltd.

He is responsible for managing a Team of engineers working in areas such as aerodynamic design, aerodynamic loads, air vehicle performance, stability and control, wind tunnel testing, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) as well as being the technical authority at Hybrid Air Vehicles on the above subjects. Tassos is also responsible for Hybrid Air Vehicles’ Flight Simulator development and operations.

Prior to taking this role, Tassos held numerous technical, academic and managerial posts in companies such as Airbus, Leonardo (Westland Helicopters), BAE Systems, DERA/QinetiQ, P3/Voith (Germany/India), and academic institutions such as City University (London), Hellenic Air Force Academy, and Cranfield University.

Tassos earned a BSc in Aeronautical Engineering Science from Salford University, Manchester, and a M.Sc. and a PhD. in Fluid Dynamics and Helicopter rotor aerodynamics respectively from Glasgow University.