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The Hampton Roads Chapter will sponsor the Vertical Lift Structures and Survivability Technical Meeting on Oct. 21-22, 2025, at the Newport News, Virginia, Marriott Hotel and Conference Center.
The meeting will present technologies and programs relating to vertical flight structures, vulnerability reduction, and crash safety enabling increased capability for vertical flight systems. This meeting combines interest in manned and unmanned vertical flight aircraft structures and vulnerability reduction related to research and development. Recent interest in crashworthiness and advanced structures and manufacturing from the eVTOL community has increased and is expected to contribute to this meeting.
Call for Presentations: download the 2025 Structures & Survivability Call for Presentations
The theme of the two-day conference is "Adapting to Emerging Threats: Rotorcraft Structures, Crashworthiness, and Survivability in a Dynamic Operational Environment". Presentations are encouraged that explore innovative solutions for enhancing structures, survivability and crashworthiness in response to these emerging threats. Presentations are invited on the following topics:
- Structures technology applicable to both developmental and legacy aircraft.
- Crashworthiness relating to rotorcraft and V/STOL and passenger eVTOL aircraft.
- Survivability design analysis and structures technology that reduce aircraft survivability and improve overall survivability.
- Refer to the Call for Presentations for detailed information.
- Abstracts are due July 15, 2025: email to meetings@hrc.vtol.org.
Meeting Venue: Newport News Marriott at City Center
740 Town Center Drive, Newport News, Virginia 23606
A limited room block is available at the Newport Marriott until Sept. 19, 2025.
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