Aircraft designer

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Nom de l’entrepriseLuc Van Bavel Design

Dates d’emploiaoût 2002 – Aujourd’hui

 

Durée d’emploi15 ans 2 mois

LieuQuébec, Canada

Independent aircraft designer offering fast and autonomous progression from a napkin sketch to all essential advanced design data items required to kick start the core engineering team of a new aircraft program:
• Aircraft sizing
• Engine selection
• Concept, marketing and production loft
• Performance modeling, flight test data analysis, AFM performance section
• Mass properties
• Cockpit and cabin ergonomics
• Preliminary stability and control analysis
• Weapon systems integration at the conceptual design stage
• FAR23/25 and MIL-HBDK-516 compliance

Specialty: making competition irrelevant, by design.

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Clean sheet of paper conceptual and advanced design, market identification and capture, production loft, performance modeling and flight test engineering.

Instrumental in the launch of several new jet airplanes over the past 20 years, including two manned military aircraft programs in the US.