AERALIS welcomed special guests to its Bristol headquarters last Wednesday to share results and key findings of its landmark proof-of-concept project for digital aerospace engineering.

Delegates from the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) programme, Catalyst, Typhoon, and civil and military regulators, joined AERALIS and digital delivery partner, Siemens, to see demonstrations of what is believed to be the most digitally integrated engineering trial yet conducted in aerospace. A subset of AERALIS’s Phoenix programme, the work has proven the viability of end-to-end digital engineering, design, modelling, testing – and certification – of aircraft.

The UK UK Ministry of Defence will undoubtedly benefit significantly from AERALIS’s work; informing FCAS and the ability to apply the RAF’s open systems architecture framework, Pyramid.

Guests remarked that the digital integration achieved by AERALIS went further ‘up and down the engineering ‘V’’ than anything yet seen and praised the team for its openness and willingness to engage stakeholders and industry partners.

AERALIS founder and CEO, Tristan Crawford, commented:

“The day achieved everything we’d hoped for and more. Our work has proven AERALIS’s credibility and cemented ourselves as leaders in digital engineering in UK military aerospace, as well as underlining our value to enterprise partners.”

Anton Burford, AERALIS Capability Director, added:

“We really opened some eyes to the power of digital end-to-end integration and reversed some scepticism. The proposition this work validates for digital certification of military air platforms landed particularly well.”

The day ended very positively with all parties keen to maintain engagement and define next steps in this important, ground-breaking research. Anton and the rest of the AERALIS team are also developing a more concise version of Wednesday’s demonstration for wider industry stakeholders.

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