On Friday 29th of Jan. 2021, a premier webinar took place for the TBS aerospace community and beyond. Over 350 people registered to this conference delivered by Mr. #MatthieuTHOMAS, lead architect of the #Airbus #ZEROe #Aircraft program.
Organized in the frame of the #TBSAerospace&Mobility #centerofexcellence with the active support of Airbus (special wink to Mélanie ASTRUC 🙏), this conference enabled Mr. Thomas to present into more specific details the stakes related to this program and the main technological challenges.
This topic of the ZEROE as the future of aviation is echoing TBS Education values and our academic involvement in hot managerial issues combining aerospace new leap, entrepreneurship, innovation, data science and environmental commitment.
We’d like to express our gratitude to TBS Alumni Aerospace community, and more specifically Florent RIZZO, President of the #aerospacembaalumniassociation for moderating the questions during the Q&A session that follows the presentation by Mr. Thomas.
The ZEROE aircraft that has been announced in last 2020 quarter and has been considered as a clear, loud and positive signal by the aerospace ecosystem.
Many questions raised up regarding this very promising initiative and have been addressed during this webinar by Mr. Thomas:
• Can you please elaborate more about the working methods you implement? What about the agile methods?
• One of the concepts, you’ve described is the blended wing body aircraft, which is very innovative in the civil aviation market. How did you come up with a concept that is very different from the two other fuselages (more conventional)?
• One of the issues when using hydrogen is the possible impact on airport infrastructure to store the massive quantity required. How do you incorporate these operational constraints into your project?
• What is the TRL of the three concepts presented?
• When considering these different projects, what are the possible consequences on the passenger experience? What are the expected new skills for the pilots? For maintenance?
• From a technical point of view, would it possible to “produce” hydrogen when flying?
• What would you recommend for young graduates willing to join these projects?
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The Inspiring Guest: Mr. Matthieu THOMAS
Mr. Matthieu THOMAS hold an engineer diploma and a PhD in material sciences. He first worked in a small startup on technology transfer, before joining Airbus as thermal engineer working on A350XWB on multiple aspects like structure thermal sizing or system thermal integration (e.g. Li-Ion Batteries). He then moved to Future Project Office working on several projects such as ATRneo, new regional aircraft, new single aisle concept… He’s now ZEROe lead architect, that is, chief engineer role for this pre-program and he works on this project since 2018.
