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2025 Vertical Lift Structures and Survivability Technical Meeting

Oct 21, 2025 - Oct 22, 2025
Virtual event
 

The Hampton Roads Chapter will sponsor the Vertical Lift Structures and Survivability Technical Meeting on Oct. 21-22, 2025. 

The theme of the two-day conference is "Adapting to Emerging Threats: Rotorcraft Structures, Crashworthiness, and Survivability in a Dynamic Operational Environment". The meeting will present technologies and programs relating to vertical flight structures, vulnerability reduction, and crash safety enabling increased capability for vertical flight systems. This meeting combines interest in manned and unmanned vertical flight aircraft structures and vulnerability reduction related to research and development. Recent interest in crashworthiness and advanced structures and manufacturing from the eVTOL community has increased and is expected to contribute to this meeting.

Authors/Speakers: Download the 2025 Structures Tech Speaker Info - speakers will be notified of how and where to upload their presentations.

Preliminary Agenda: Now Available! Download the Structures & Survivability Prelim Agenda

  • Structures technology applicable to both developmental and legacy aircraft.
  • Crashworthiness relating to rotorcraft and V/STOL and passenger eVTOL aircraft.
  • Survivability design analysis and structures technology that reduce aircraft survivability and improve overall survivability.
  • Questions: email to meetings@hrc.vtol.org.

Showcase your Organization: gain exposure be featuring your organization logo and website on the Structures & Survivability webpage and agenda. Sponsors will also receive recognition in the presentation slides throughout the event.

Special Crashworthy Seating Requirements VIRTUAL Workshop added Oct. 23, 2024 from 10:00 AM to 3:30 PM EDT

Conducted by the VFS Crash Safety Sub-Committee on MIL-S-58095 and MIL-S-85510

Summary: the intent of this virtual workshop is to discuss the state of current crashworthy seating performance specifications and have an open discussion among all the partners regarding gaps, challenges, opportunities, and concerns associated with modernizing and reactivating MIL-S-58095 and MIL-S-85510. The goal is to establish a structure and timeline for reviewing and socializng and potential modifications if the specifications were to be reactivated.

Download the Preliminary Crash Safety Workshop agenda.

Virtual (Zoom) link information for the Crashworthy workshop coming soon.

Now a Virtual Event!

To support increased accessibility and to maximize US government participation, the Vertical Structures & Survivability meeting is now a fully virtual event.

VFS and the Hampton Roads Chapter trusts this adjustment will help ensure broader and more meaningful engagement from government stakeholders, as well as all other partcipants.

The meeting will still take place on Oct. 21-22 as scheduled, now via Zoom. Virtual connection information will be shared with registered attendees prior to the meeting.

Questions about this event?

Please contact
Julie Gibbs, event registrar, if you have any questions.