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Aeralis touts ‘best of British’ approach as interest soars in modular jet
By Craig Hoyle24 June 2022
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Aeralis is one of the many companies hoping to help propel the UK aerospace industry out of the pandemic-driven downturn, as it attracts new industrial partners and fresh financial backing for its modular family of military jets.
The firm will conduct a preliminary design review (PDR) for a demonstrator aircraft “in the autumn”, and is aiming for a first test flight within three years.
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Roles could include performing basic and advanced jet training tasks
Interest in Aeralis has spiked since the aerospace sector began emerging from the Covid-19 crisis late last year. The start-up company’s stand at last September’s DSEI exhibition in London was inundated with visitors, and it also grabbed attention by unveiling two full-scale mock-ups at March’s DIMDEX event in Qatar.
“The aim is to get the first article of the modular vehicle flying by 2025, so we can prove that the company is capable of getting approval to fly a modular jet training aircraft,” says chief executive Tristan Crawford.
Aeralis’s concept makes use of a core common fuselage, to which a variety of propulsion systems, wings and payloads can be integrated. Roles could range from basic and advanced jet training to light attack duties, along with operational/aggressor training and aerobatic display team use.
Originally piloted assets could later in life be converted for unmanned roles such as intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, “loyal wingman” or even autonomous in-flight refuelling, it believes.
Aeralis will be at the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) at Fairford in Gloucestershire from 15-17 July, and at the Farnborough air show.
“Our focus is more on RIAT this year,” Crawford says of the normally annual military spectacular, which is being staged for the first time since 2019. The company has taken a hospitality chalet and also hopes to have a full-scale mock-up at the event.
“We will be hosting a lot of people – military delegations and industry partners,” he says. “Particularly some of the key international customers who have RFIs [requests for information] and RFPs [requests for proposals] out at the moment.”
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At Farnborough, Aeralis is taking space on the West of England Aerospace Forum stand: in May it opened a new office and “enterprise hub” in Bristol.
“We will be looking for the aerospace supply chain to come and talk to us about the technology options that we can bake into our technology roadmap to achieve net zero [emissions] in the timeframe that we are looking for,” Crawford says. “That’s everything from biodegradable aerostructures, sustainable aviation fuel [SAF], more electric aircraft systems and digital manufacturing and assembly.”
Crawford believes Aeralis presents a real opportunity for UK industry to shine on the global stage. “We are looking to inde
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