Who is Invited:

Professionals, Students, friends and family members.
(You do not need to be AIAA member to attend the event)

Electric and Hybrid Aircraft

mini-Conference

by
Dr. Marty K. Bradley
AIAA Fellow
Technical Fellow for The Boeing Company
Boeing Commercial Airplanes Advanced Concepts group

Cory Combs
Co-Founder
Chief Technology Officer
Ampaire, Inc.

Joseph Oldham
President – New Vision Aviation
Sustainable Aviation Project – Flight Training with Pipistrel Alpha Electro Trainers

with additonal panelists:

Dr. Anita Sengupta
Co-Founder at Airspace Experience Technologies (ASX)
Pilot, Former NASA and Hyperloop Engineer
(Panelist)

Scott Burgess
President and Co-Founder of the Eco-Aviation Foundation International
(Panelist)

Dr. Marty K. Bradley
AIAA Fellow
Technical Fellow for The Boeing Company
Boeing Commercial Airplanes Advanced Concepts Group

(Speaker, Panelist, and Moderator)

Dr. Bradley currently advises and executes projects to investigate advanced sustainable aviation and electric aircraft concepts for Boeing Commercial Airplanes and NASA. Over his 36 year aerospace career, he has been a team leader for projects related to advanced concepts and technologies, electric and hybrid electric aircraft, green aircraft design, alternative fuels, environmental life cycle assessment (LCA), and propulsion.

He has a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, all from the University of Southern California and currently teaches their capstone senior aircraft design course.

He is an AIAA Fellow and the Founder of the AIAA Aircraft Electrified Propulsion and Power (AEPP) Working Group. He helped create and was the General Chair of the Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium (EATS). He previously was Chair of the AIAA Green Engineering Program Committee and the High Speed Airbreathing Propulsion Technical Committee. He is an instructor for the AIAA short course on the “Design for Electric and Hybrid Electric Aircraft”. He is the Technical Chair for P&E 2020.

He has authored 2 book chapters, 50 publications, 2 patents, and conducted 15 addresses or speeches at technical conferences related to green aviation and advanced propulsion. He has lectured in courses and seminars at USC, Auburn, MIT, and Cal State Los Angeles and Long Beach on electric aircraft, alternative fuels and green aviation technologies.

Cory Combs
Co-Founder
Chief Technology Officer
Ampaire, Inc.

(Speaker and Panelist)

Cory Combs is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Ampaire Inc. After receiving his bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University, Cory worked in advanced R&D at Northrop Grumman, including work on a number of X-planes. He later shifted to working in the cleantech startup space researching novel pollution reduction/energy efficiency technologies across multiple industries. Ampaire is the convergence of Cory's work on EV and aircraft technologies, and he is excited to be a part of making commercial electric aircraft a reality.

Joseph Oldham

Director for the CALSTART San Joaquin Valley Clean Transportation Center, President/CEO of New Vision Aviation, Inc.
A general aviation pilot since 1974
Project Lead for the Sustainable Aviation Project
(Speaker and Panelist)

Mr. Oldham is a native of Fresno County and the current Director for the CALSTART San Joaquin Valley Clean Transportation Center and President/CEO of New Vision Aviation, Inc.  A general aviation pilot since 1974, Mr. Oldham is the project lead for the Sustainable Aviation Project that has deployed four (4) Pipistrel Alpha Electro aircraft in Fresno County and developed the first network of electric aircraft charging infrastructure in the United States.  Mr. Oldham has over 180 hours of flight experience in the Alpha Electro aircraft and was the first pilot to fly a production electric aircraft in the United States.   He is the chief investigator and co-author of the petition for exemption currently in review by the FAA to re-certify the four aircraft in the project so they can be used in traditional flight training operations as they are designed for.   New Vision Aviation is a 501c3 non-profit devoted to providing education and training in aviation for residents in the San Joaquin Valley with a primary emphasis on youth from disadvantaged communities in the region.  New Vision Aviation’s tag line is “Elevating People Through Aviation”.

Dr. Anita Sengupta 

Co-Founder at Airspace Experience Technologies (ASX)
Pilot, Former NASA and Hyperloop Engineer
@Doctor_Astro

(Panelist)

Dr. Sengupta is an aerospace engineer, rocket scientist, pilot, and veteran of the space program. She worked for NASA for 16 years where her engineering projects included her PhD research on developing the ion propulsion system for the Dawn Mission (currently in the main asteroid belt), the supersonic parachute that landed the Curiosity rover on Mars, and the Cold Atom Laboratory an atomic physics facility now on board the International Space Station.

After leaving NASA she led the development of the hyperloop as senior vice president of engineering systems at Virgin Hyperloop, a technology that can enable ground based travel in excess of airline speed.

Her current venture is Co-Founder at Airspace Experience Technologies (ASX), an electrified autonomous VTOL urban aerial mobility technology company. As an engineering savvy executive and pilot, she is now leading the mobility solutions for smart cities by eliminating congestion and reducing the carbon footprint of air travel.

Dr. Sengupta received her MS and PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southern California, where she is also a Research Associate Professor of Astronautics and Space Technology specializing in interplanetary entry system and green transportation technology.

In her spare time she is an avid pilot, motorcyclist, scuba diver, snowboarder, hiker, long distance runner, and Sci-Fi fan.

Scott Burgess
Presidentand Co-Founder of the Eco-Aviation Foundation International
(Panelist)

Scott Burgess is the President and Co-Founder of the Eco-Aviation Foundation International. The Foundation’s focus is to promote early-adoption of the newest electric, hybrid and other low-to-zero emissions aviation technologies – including sustainable airport infrastructure. Additionally, the Foundation works with local airport communities in organizing programs and events to bring a new, “eco” message to their adjacent neighborhoods.  The Foundation publishes its Eco-Aviation “Newscenter”, which contains articles curated daily from sources worldwide related to anything eco in aviation. To follow, the Foundation sends out a weekly “Newscenter Update” email containing a digest of the last week’s news and events in eco aviation.  Other projects and initiatives of the Foundation include: eco aviation case studies, educational programs and scholarships, curating “future of flight” museum exhibits, organizing eco aviation events, aviation job and education fairs, an annual eco aviation expo, as well as others. Throughout his career, Scott has managed aviation projects in the U.S., UAE/Dubai, Afghanistan, Malta, Africa and others, which has given him a broad perspective of the strong positive impact the eco future of aviation brings:  green, quiet and much lower operating costs.