Airbus

Akshya Batwara – Flight physics engineer

Two French guys
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1. Airbus Group
2. Commercial airlines market:
a. 1400 airlines,
b. 26,000 aircraft
c. 3.6 bn passengers
d. 2.7 tn USD
e. 50.5 mn tonnes freight
f. 62.7mn jobs directly or indirectly
g. Market doubles every 15 years
h. 25,000 Airbus a/c flying world over
3. “Airbus is a global aircraft manufacturer”
a. UK Germany Spain, France were the beginning
b. Now 11 locations
c. Assembly line locations: Tenzing China, Alabama, 2 in Europe
d. 60 aircraft per day, quadruple in 4 years
4. Airbus in India
a. First sale to India: 1976, Indian Airlines
b. 7 Indian carriers: 55% fleet share in India (210 aircraft), 70% order share
c. 20 year forecast: 1610 aircraft costing total of 224 bn USD (1230 SA, 380 WB)
d. 518 A320Neo order backlog
e. Make in India
i. Customer services
1. Mtc trg (Blore)
2. Pilot trg, Flight Ops support (Delhi in 2018)
ii. Aerospace Supplier Partnerships
1. Aero-structures strategic partnerships
a. Infosys
b. Tata
c. UTC – 16 evac slides for A320
d. M Group
e. L&T
f. Aequs
g. HAL - door
h. Wipro
i. Dynamatic – Power Sytems
j. Axis Cades
iii. R&D and Innovation
1. Concepts and Emerging Tech @ Blore
a. AI
b. High speed comms
c. Robotics
2. Leads worldwide Innovation
 3. BizLab (Blore) incubating startups with good ideas
iv. Engineering
1. 2007 onwards Blore, 25 ppl. Now 340+ ppl
2. 2 design centres (Axis Cades) and QUEST for wing and pylon
detailing
5. Strategy offshore:
a. Big potential countries presence
b. Access good talent
6. India Engg Portfolio
a. Multiprogramme: fixed, helicopters, defence and space little
b. Mainly non-specific design activities, high labour non-core activities
c. Mainly make mode
7. Projects
a. C130
b. A350: tooling, DMU
c. Mxxxx: efficiency improvement of existing design
Projects @ Airbus India
Bishen Chugh (2007) MS, MBA

1. Flight Physics
a. A/dynamics
i. Design – optimisation
ii. Data modelling - across flight envelope (beyond design points)
b. Flight performance
i. Low speed
ii. Hi speed
c. Loads, aeroelastics
d. Mass Properties
2. Build Models
a. Mass
b. Structures
c. LG
d. Aerodynamics
e. EFCS
f. Manouever, gust, ground loads
3. Airframe
a. Struct
b. Thermal - engine
c. Non linear FEA, Fatigue, Vibrations, Crash Simulation
d. Surface modelling
i. Lofting
ii. Tooling
iii. Tolerancing
iv. Struct Detailing
v. Test Design
e. Materials
i. Testing
ii. Qualifn
iii. EHS
iv. Interior matls
f. Detailing
i. Elec/mech system installation
ii. DMU quality checks
4. Multidisciplinary team
5. Systems Engg (A330)
a. Simulation (AMESim, Simulink)
i. Aircraft Control
ii. Environmental control
iii. Fuel management (vent modelling)
iv. Flight Management Systems
v. System architecture design and development, validation and
verification
b. Avionics
 i. Flight warning systems – malfunctions
ii. Test instrumentation
iii. Simulation
iv. Integration
v. Flight ops analysis
vi. Remote testing (Blore to Toulouse) Integration and validation
Recruitment and student interaction
1. Exchange, tripartite
a. NUS
b. ISAE SupAERO
c. IISc
d. Each set of kids visited local companies of Airbus grous:
i. Dynamatix and Mahindra,
ii. Singapore – helicopter companies,
iii. SupAero – see actual work and opportunities
2. Funding competitions and technical challenges
3. 37 internships per year, 20 recruits per year only from IIT’s
4. IIT’s
a. Juniors programme
i. 1 guy from IIT Madras last year 2015 Aditya Malpani
ii. Global
iii. Different areas for few weeks
iv. Germany France Spain
b. Fly Your Ideas
i. Global
ii. UNESCO partnership
iii. Any area of aero
iv. IISc won last year, but registered from TU Delft as a PhD student
v. Cash prize and placement
c. Want ppl with passion and sticking capacity
Make In India (French guy again)
Batwara, DD Aero 2014

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