The Vertical Flight Society has an extensive library of educational videos on vertical flight. In addition to those available to the public on our YouTube Channel, more in-depth videos are available for VFS members by logging in at the top of the page.
Check out our most recent videos in the Vertical Flight Video Library. Find 2019 and older VFS events here.
These are videos from 2020-2021.
2021
Forum 77 videos
- 2021 Short Course on Electric VTOL Technology, June 14-15
- Introduction to Practical VTOL Aircraft Cost Estimating, June 22-23
- Short Courses (video on demand):
- Video recordings of all 300 presentations (approx. 150 hours) from Forum 77 can be purchased and watched. Register to gain all the same access as the live event, except the networking/chat functions and the Exhibitor Technical Briefings.
- Forum 77 introduction video, May 9
- 77th Annual Grand Awards Ceremony, May 5
- 41st Annual Nikolsky Lecture: “Rotorcraft Design: The Crucial Influence of Safety from Concept to Fleet Support,” Fabio Nannoni, Senior Vice President for Safety Management Governance, livestream, May 5 [slides]
- Rotorcraft Webinars & Interviews
- eVTOL Webinar: Raising $tartup Capital: eVTOL Financing 101 - Lesson 1, Dana Jensen, Gemini; Rafferty Jackson, Jack Industries and Kirsten Bartok Touw, New Vista
- All four lessons can be found here — free for members!
- Webinar: Teledyne FLIR - Leading Perception and Awareness Solutions, VFS Arizona, Philadelphia and Redstone Chapters, Dec 7
- Webinar: Research on Rotorcraft Flight Dynamics and Control at PSU VLRCOE, VFS Redstone Chapter, Dec 6 [slides]
- Webinar: Dual-Solver Hybrid Methods for Rotorcraft Aeromechanics, VFS Stratford Chapter, Oct 28 [slides]
- Webinar: Next Generation Pilots: Training and Certification, VFS Montreal-Ottawa Chapter, Oct 20 [slides]
- Webinar: CH146 Griffon Limited Life Extension (GLLE), VFS Montreal-Ottawa Chapter, Sep 30 [slides]
- Webinar: Modern Operations with Future Integrated Vehicle Management Systems, Technical Meeting hosted by VFS Philadelphia and Aberdeen Chapters, Aug 19-20, with 9 hours of recorded webinars for sale as video-on-demand. Or check out the agenda and see what is available! [slides]
- Webinar: Future Vertical Lift CFT Update, VFS Philadelphia, Arizona and Redstone Chapters, Aug 11 [slides]
- Half-day webinar: FAA Vision Systems Summit, Cliff Johnson, FAA; Carlo Tiana, Collins; Trish Ververs, Honeywell; et. al; June 25 [slides]
- Webinar: Agricultural Spraying Operations in Vertical Lift, VFS Montreal-Ottawa Chapter, June 1 [slides]
- Webinar: Robotic Exploration of Titan with Dragonfly, a Multi-rotor Relocatable Lander, VFS Stratford Chapter, Apr 28 [slides]
- Webinar: NASA's new Advanced Air Mobility Mission, VFS Hampton Roads Chapter, Apr 23 [slides]
- Webinar: Recent Vertical Lift Research at the National Research Council of Canada, VFS Montreal/Ottawa Chapter, Apr 23
- Webinar: US Army Aviation Policy for Advanced Manufactured Aircraft Parts, VFS Philadelphia/Arizona/Redstone Chapters, Apr. 22 [slides]
- Webinar: Motion Amplification® and Camera-Based Full Field Vibration Techniques, VFS Stratford Chapter, Feb 24
- Webinar: LA County Fire - Air Operations | Saving Lives From the Air, VFS Federal City Chapter, Feb 23
- Webinar: Vertical Lift Modernization Efforts, VFS Federal City Chapter, Feb 4
- Electric VTOL $tartup Financing Lessons
- Electric VTOL Webinars & Interviews
- 6th Workshop on eVTOL Infrastructure, Sep 20-22, with 11 hours of recordings as video-on-demand. Or check out the agenda and see what is available!
- Webinar: Insect-Scale Flapping-Wing Aerial Robots, Dr. Kevin Chen, MIT, VFS East New England Chapter, Dec 1 [slides]
- eVTOL Webinar: Hydrogen Powered Vertical Aviation, Sam Whitehorn and Kelly Lugar, Elevate Government Affairs, Nov 29 [slides]
- eVTOL Webinar: GoFly and the Development of Aria, David Coleman, Texas A&M, VFS Southwest Chapter, Nov 9 [slides]
- eVTOL Webinar: Airspace Integration of UAS and UAM, Parimal Kopardekar, NASA; Vladimír Foltín, EASA; Phil Binks, Altitude Angel; Chris Kucera, OneSky Systems; presented as part of European Rotors, Oct 29 [slides]
- 5th Workshop on eVTOL Infrastructure, Sep 20-21, with 16 hours of recordings as video-on-demand. Or check out the agenda and see what is available! [slides]
- eVTOL Webinar: Successfully Transitioning to Autonomous Vertical Flight,: Pay-Per-View ($50) [agenda] Sep 15 [slides]
- eVTOL Writers Group: Overair Unveils Much Anticipated Butterfly eVTOL Design, Ben Tigner, James Orbon, Josh Aronoff, Dan Salcius, Colin Shaw and Craig Smith, Overair Aug. 11
- eVTOL Writers Group: An Innovative & Data-Driven Approach to Building the Aviation Workforce of Tomorrow in Advanced Air Mobility, Chris Courtney and Tim Schoenauer, CAE, July 7 [slides]
- eVTOL Webinar: eVTOL Certification, David Webber, FAA, June 29 [slides]
- eVTOL Webinar: BETA Technologies, Herman Wiegman, BETA, VFS East New England Chapter, June 28 [slides]
- eVTOL Webinar: NASA Aeronautics Contributions to the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, VFS Arizona/Philadelphia/Redstone Chapters, Susan Gorton, NASA, June 17
- eVTOL Writers Group: Electric Power Systems: EPiC battery family, Nathan Millecam, Randy Dunn and Michael Armstrong, EP Systems, June 8 [slides]
- eVTOL Webinar: Unmanned Aerial Systems/Urban Air Mobility, VFS Arizona/Philadelphia/Redstone Chapters, Hector Garcia, Honeywell, Apr. 1 [slides]
- eVTOL Writers Group: RTI, Chip Downing, Mar 24 [slides]
- eVTOL Flight Test Council: System-Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) for Flight Testers, Nancy Leveson, MIT, Mar. 9 [slides]
- 4th Workshop on eVTOL Infrastructure, Mar 2-4, with 16 hours of recordings for sale as video-on-demand. Or check out the agenda and see what is available! [slides]
- eVTOL Writers Group: Embention, Javier Espuch, Feb. 17 [slides]
- eVTOL Writers Group: Volocopter, Florian Reuter and Oliver Reinhardt, Volocopter, Feb. 10
- eVTOL Flight Test Council: Austin Meyer - How X-Plane can be used for eVTOL Flight, Austin Meyer, X-Plane, Jan. 19
- 15th Annual Electric Aircraft Symposium (EAS), July 20-22, 2021 [slides]
- Day 1 Panel 1: Global Overview
- Day 1 Panel 2: Regional Air Mobility Business Case
- Day 1 Panel 3: Aircraft Conversions and Supplemental Type Certifications
- Day 1 Panel 4: Electric Aircraft for Public Services and Defense
- Day 1 Panel 5: Community Integration
- All three days video-on-demand: $140
- First day free (video)
- "Growing the Workforce & Incorporating Diversity," VFS panel at EAS 2021
The 8th Annual VFS Electric VTOL Symposium was held virtually on Jan. 26-28. The invited presentations were video recorded and are available to all current VFS members at no charge.
- There are 17 video recordings of the plenary and Autonomous VTOL and eVTOL presentations — more than 35 hours of video are available! (VFS members can also download PDFs of the presentations for free from the VFS Vertical Flight Library.)
- Short Course on eVTOL Design (Intermediate): Video-on-demand for the latest 8-hour eVTOL short course is now available for purchase! Check out our past educational short courses for purchase.
2020
- Rotorcraft Webinars & Interviews
Webinar: The Future of Rotorcraft, Dan Schultz, VFS East New England Chapter, Dec. 8 - Webinar: Solving Today's Aerial Firefighting Challenges, VFS Philadelphia and Arizona Chapters, Nov. 18 [slides]
- Webinar: Finding a New Path - Discovering Your Passion in Life & Leadership, VFS Stratford Chapter, Nov. 18
- Webinar: Bell reveals the Revolutionary Electrically Distributed Anti-Torque Demonstrator, VFS Technical Talk, Nov 16
- Webinar: Bell V-280 Application of Joint Input-Output Methodology for Hover Model Identification, VFS Southwest Chapter, Nov. 10 [slides]
- Webinar: The S-97 Raider, VFS South Florida Chapter, Oct. 22 [slides]
- Webinar: PEO AVN Electrical Power Systems: Positioning for the Future, VFS Redstone, Arizona and Philadelphia Chapters, Oct. 22 [slides]
- Webinar: 21st Century Helicopter Design, VFS Stratford Chapter, Oct 21 [slides]
- Webinar: Composites design and manufacturing technology assimilation for the RACER rotorcraft, VFS hq, Oct 21 [slides]
- Webinar: Flight Testing the Bell 525 Relentless, VFS East New England Chapter, Sept 29
- Webinar: Audrey Brady's Flight Path, VFS Stratford, Sept 16 [slides]
- Webinar: Accelerating Towards Design-by-Analysis for Composite Aerospace Structures, VFS Arizona Chapter, Aug 25 [slides]
- Webinar: Rotorcraft as Robots, VFS SFBAC, Aug 20 [slides]
- Webinar: Impact of COVID-19 on Rotorcraft Operations, VFS East New England Chapter, May 28
- Helicopter Profile: Airbus H175 - Interview with Régis Magnac, Head of Oil & Gas and Leasing, Jan 2020
Electric VTOL Webinars & Interviews- eVTOL Writers Group: Levitate Capital Report on the Future of the Drone Economy Dario Constantive and Bastiaan Janmaat, Levitate Capital, Dec. 21 [slides]
- eVTOL Writers Group: EmbraerX and Airservices Australia release Concept of Operations for Urban Air Mobility, David Rottblatt, Eve Air Mobility and Kristian Cruickshank, Airservices Australia, Dec. 17 [slides]
- eVTOL Writers Group / VFS Montreal-Ottawa Chapter: Canadian Advanced Air Mobility Consortium | A National Strategy for AAM in Canada, JR Hammond, Canadian Advanced Air Mobility Consortium, Dec. 14 [slides]
- eVTOL Flight Test Council: Energy Reserves for Electrically Powered Aircraft, Mario Asselin, Asselin Inc., Dec. 9 [slides]
- eVTOL Flight Test Council: Simplified Vehicle Operations, Borja Martos, Ph.D and Noel Duerksen, Ph.D. Dec. 1 [slides]
- eVTOL Writers Group: CS Systemes and Communications: Interview with Jerome Casteret & Matthew Tkac, Sept. 15 [slides]
- eVTOL Writers Group: Dufour Aerospace: Interview with Thomas Pfammatter & Jasmine Kent, Sept. 9 [slides]
- Webinar: "Is Urban Air Mobility Really Disruptive?" VFS Stratford Chapter, Aug 19 [slides]
- eVTOL Writers Group: OneSky: "An Interview with CEO Bob Hammett," July 7
- eVTOL Writers Group: Wisk Aero: "An Interview with CEO Gary Gysin and CTO Jim Tighe," June 26
- Webinar: Transcend Air and the Vy 400R: VTOL for VIP Transport, VFS ENE Chapter, June 24 [slides]
- Webinar: Psychoacoustic Measures for UAM Noise in the Context of Ambient Sound, VFS SFBAC, June 11 [slides]
- eVTOL Writers Group: Jaunt Air Mobility webinar: "A Safe, Ultra-Quiet eVTOL UAM Solution — The Next Evolution in Aviation," April 3
- eVTOL Writers Group: Community Air Mobility Initiative (CAMI) webinar: "Adding the Third Dimension to Urban & Regional Transportation," March 3
- VFS interview: SkyDrive - Mark Blackwell, Jan 2020 (13:38)
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VFS interview: Tier 1 Engineering - Glen Dromgoole, Jan 2020 (11:45)
- Forum 76 videos
- Short Course on Electric VTOL Design, Dr. James Wang, Sept. 21-22
- Short Course on Model-Based Systems Engineering, Barry Papke, Sept. 24-25
- VFS Forum 76 introduction video, Sept. 23
- VFS Forum Testimonial by Stacy Sidle, Sept. 23
- VFS Forum Testimonial by Marilyn Smith, Sept. 25
- 40th Annual Nikolsky Lecture, "Flight Control Technology Advancements and Challenges for Future Rotorcraft," Dr. Mark Tischler, Sept. 30 [slides]
- 76th Annual Grand Awards Ceremony, Sept. 30
- Sikorsky President Dan Schultz congratulates 2020 VFS Award winners, Oct. 1
- Forum 76 full-registrants: Access to videos of all 250 presentations
- VFS/AUVSI Half-Day Webinar, Aug. 10, 2020
- Progress Towards Autonomous Vertical Flight: Pay-Per-View ($50)
- 14th Annual Electric Aircraft Symposium (EAS), July 28-30, 2020 [slides]
- Panel 1: Industry Overview
- Panel 2: Commuter / Regional Service
- Panel 3: Urban Air Mobility
- Panel 4: UAM Community Integration
- All three days video-on-demand: $125
- First day free (playlist)
- Pre-Forum Special Sessions (Pay-per-view) [slides]
- US Military Rotorcraft Program Updates, May 19
- Future Vertical Lift (FVL) and Joint Multi-Role (JMR), May 20
- Challenges and Progress in Electric VTOL, May 21
- VFS eVTOL/UAM Infrastructure Series
- Intro: The Electric VTOL Revolution, webinar for ACMA, Apr 14 [slides]
- Webinar 1: Fire, Building and Electrical Codes for Vertiports, VFS webinar, Apr 15
- Webinar 2: Weather Systems, VFS Webinar, Apr 22
- Webinar 3: Noise and Acoustics, VFS Webinar, Apr 29
- Webinar 4: Urban / Municipality Planning & Land Use, VFS Webinar, May 6
- Video on demand: 3rd Workshop on eVTOL Infrastructure for UAM, Sept. 1-3, $200 [slides]
VFS videos from HAI Heli-Expo 2020, Jan 27-30- VFS Media Briefing: The Future of Vertical Flight
- Kopter Media Briefing
- Leonardo Helicopters Media Briefing
- HAI Urban Air Mobility Forum
- Leonardo Purchases Kopter - Part 1 (Announcement)
- Leonardo Purchases Kopter - Part 2 (Media Q&A)
- Airbus Helicopters Media Briefing
- MD Helicopters Media Briefing
- Robinson Helicopters Media Briefing
- Members only: VFS Panel: The ((Quiet)) The Electric VTOL Revolution, Jan 29
- 52 helicopters! Helicopter Flight Demos and Convention Fly-Out, Jan 30-31
The 7th Annual VFS Electric VTOL Symposium, Jan 2020, San Jose, CA. The invited presentations were recorded and are available to VFS members at no charge. - Some 40 videos of the plenary and eVTOL presentations — more than 20 hours of video are available! (VFS members can also download PDFs of the presentations for free from the VFS Vertical Flight Library.)
- Short Course on Electric VTOL Technology: Video-on-demand for the latest 7-hour eVTOL short course is now available for purchase! Check out our past educational short courses for purchase.
You can find videos from 2019 and older VFS events here.
We also have a great collection of videos and lectures on electric VTOL, historical aircraft, the human powered helicopter competition and much more on our @VTOLsociety channel on YouTube. Check them out!