#AirNav

High altitude platforms, sub orbital launches, balloons that will carry people 10s of kilometers into the atmosphere, the re-emergence of supersonic civil transport - these are dreams that are in advanced stages of development and which will become flight-reality over the next few years. In this new frontier there isn’t much that is ‘traditional’. The trajectories are unconventional. The, velocities and attitudes are off the scales of the instrumentation used by current fleets. The technology may look familiar but not the way it is applied. And many of the companies have never been involved in aviation before.

As aviation opens up the upper skies it is clear that regulatory and operational minds need to get together to ensure the safe orderly growth of these operations that will take us to the edge of the atmosphere.

Moderator:
Nancy Graham, President, Graham Aerospace International Speakers/ Panellists:

Speakers/Panellists:
Etienne Barritault, Manager Of Space Innovation, Thales (Stratobus) Eli Dourado, Director Of Policy, Boom Supersonic
Martin Gomez, Vice President, Facebook Aquila
Henk Hof, Head of ICAO & Concepts Unit, EUROCONTROL
Prof. Lui Hao, Director of Institute of Aviation Law and Standard, Beihang University
Taber MacCallum, Chief Technical Officer, WorldView
Andrew Tailby, Head of Flight Operations, Airbus HAPS
Alastair Westgarth, Vice President, Google Loon
Dan Williams, Senior Advisor for New Entrants, FAA