Airbus is participating in this year’s Aviation Open House, at the Suntec City Convention Centre in Singapore. Airbus will showcase its urban mobility solutions and organise the Airbus Foundation Little Engineer programme for the third time.
Airbus has been progressing on technological development of several electric vertical take-off-and-landing demonstrators and the development of unmanned traffic management solutions. Visitors to the booth will learn how Airbus’ urban air mobility solutions can contribute positively to a multimodal mobility system and help build more liveable cities.
The company’s ‘Skyways’ unmanned aerial vehicle will also be on display at the Airbus booth (#G12). Launched in collaboration with the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore in February 2016, Skyways is an experimental project which Airbus aims to use for the development of an unmanned airborne infrastructure solution to address the sustainability and efficiency of air delivery in urban and maritime environments. Skyways was first flown at the National University of Singapore campus in February 2018, and begun shore-to-ship trials in Singapore in March 2019.
Airbus will also be conducting the Airbus Foundation Little Engineer programme for the third time at the open house. Targeted at secondary school students aged between 13 and 16 years old, the Airbus Foundation Little Engineer programme – consisting of two workshops – aims to inspire students to embrace technology and ignite a passion that could grow into an exciting career in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Over 60 students will be participating in the following two workshops.
Students at the first workshop will be introduced to the process of assembling an A380, where they will be tasked to assemble an A380 aircraft model, programme it with their own algorithm, to be able to manoeuvre on the tarmac, ready for take-off.
The second workshop leverages Discovery Space – the digital portal that brings today’s research and technology to life. After learning how aircraft operate and fly, students will then put their knowledge to the test by designing their own airplanes in a competition.
Since its launch in 2012, the Airbus Foundation Little Engineer programme has successfully positioned itself as an effective vehicle for discovery-based learning, working to enlighten and empower youth in the areas of science and technology through robotics and aerospace. Today, the programme is operating in more than 19 countries and has reached out to over 5,000 students from across Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
