Los Angeles-Las Vegas

 View Only

(February 21 @ 9 AM PST) Surveillance Balloon or Breakaway Airship ?: A Chinese Conundrum !

  • 1.  (February 21 @ 9 AM PST) Surveillance Balloon or Breakaway Airship ?: A Chinese Conundrum !

    Posted 14 Feb, 2023 14:50

    RSVP and Information: https://conta.cc/3Yx2pUS

    Knowledge is Power

    Surveillance Balloon or Breakaway Airship ?:

    A Chinese Conundrum !

    Prof. Rajkumar S. Pant

    Lighter-Than-Air Systems Laboratory, Aerospace Engineering Department

    Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai

    Tuesday, February 21, 2023, 9 AM PST (US and Canada) (GMT-0800)

    (Add to Calendar)

    An AIAA LA-LV Zoom Webinar / Online Section Meeting

    Register Now (and Event Information)
    (Left) Micro Airship @ IIT Bombay; (Middle) Mini Airship @ Pune; (Right) Macro Airship @ Manali

    This talk will provide a short description of the recent incidents in which an un-authorized aerial object (claimed as a surveillance balloon by US authorities, and a breakaway civilian airship by Chinese authorities) was shot down by an F-22 aircraft. This was followed by further sightings and shooting down of several similar (and not so similar) objects. We will describe the incidents based on the reports available, and also provide our insights on the issue, to try and obtain a solution to this modern conundrum, which has lead to a worsening of the diplomatic relations between USA and China.

    Presenter:
    Prof. Rajkumar S. Pant
    Prof. Rajkumar S. Pant has Bachelors, Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering. His areas of specialization include Aircraft Conceptual Design, Air Transportation, and Optimization. He has been a member of faculty of Aerospace Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay since December 1989.
    Prof. Pant is an alumnus of College of Aeronautics, Cranfield University, UK, where he earned his Ph.D. under Commonwealth Scholarship Scheme, and IIT Madras, where he did his Masters in Aeronautical Engineering. He has also worked for five years in Hindustan Aeronautics Limited in the Design & Engineering Department at Kanpur (3½ years) and Nasik (1½ years) Divisions.
    In 2002, he set up a Lighter-Than-Air (LTA) systems laboratory at IIT Bombay, which has undertaken several R&D and Consultancy projects related to design, development and demonstration of LTA systems. Since 2007, he has been an international member of AIAA's Lighter-Than-Air Technical Committee, and was the Chairperson for 2014-16. He has published and presented 250 scientific papers, of which 150 are in international conferences. He has also visited several top-ranking Institutes and Universities all over the world.
    Prof. Pant has been a Visiting Professor at School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore for a year in 2016. Earlier, he was appointed as a Special Visiting Researcher during 2012-15 under the Science Without Borders program of the Brazilian Government for a project related to design and development of Hybrid Lighter-Than-Air systems. He has been a visiting faculty at Department of Aerospace & Ocean Engineering at Virginia Tech in 2010-11, and visiting researcher at Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, Brazil in 2012, Texas A&M University in 2011, Cambridge University in 2008, and Imperial College London in 2006. He is an Adjunct Faculty or a Member of Board of Studies in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at ~ 10 universities in India.
    Event Calendar
    Join Mailing List
    Upcoming Events
    Join AIAA

    Disclaimer: The views of the speakers do not represent the views of AIAA or the AIAA Los Angeles-Las Vegas Section

    AIAA Los Angeles-Las Vegas | www.aiaa-lalv.org | events.aiaalalv@gmail.com



    ------------------------------
    ---------
    ------------------------------