Beginning in April, the Vertical Flight Society started providing virtual content with both industry interviews and virtual chapter meetings. Below is a roundup of a dozen of the webinars organized by the chapters and headquarters since the last issue of Vertiflite. On Oct. 21, VFS member Katrin Mayrhofer, along with Albert Cubillo from Romaero, presented a summary of the effort by INCAS - National Institute for Aerospace Research "Elie Carafoli" - in the development of the Clean Sky 2 Rapid And Cost-Effective Rotorcraft (RACER) program. Mayrhofer and Cubillo talked about the RACERproject and its overall goals within the Airbus Helicopters design to get to prepare for flight test and demonstrate technical readiness level (TRL) six. Bucharest, Romania-based INCAS and Romaero are providing consulting services and development of the central fuselage. A large part of the presentation focused on the lessons learned to-date throughout the program, including working within a large consortium and the technical issues with new composite structure design.
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