HAV signs a Memorandum of Understanding with Dassault Systèmes and TriMech to pioneer sustainable aircraft development.

Hybrid Air Vehicles, Dassault Systèmes and TriMech collaborate to develop and deliver aircraft to play a part in reducing global aviation emissions.

The collaboration will see Hybrid Air Vehicles implement Dassault Systèmes' 3DEXPERIENCE Platform into its business as it advances its maturation of technology and processes ahead of programme launch, and ultimately pursues hydrogen-fuelled zero emissions flight.

Hybrid Air Vehicles Ltd, a UK-based leader in sustainable aircraft technologies, has today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the science and technology company Dassault Systèmes, and TriMech, a global provider of engineering and design solutions.

By bringing together Hybrid Air Vehicles' Airlander, a highly innovative new family of aircraft, with Dassault Systèmes' 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, an industry-leading virtual twin software platform, the collaboration enables each organisation to progress shared sustainability values. The collaboration aims to advance the products, processes and people needed to accelerate the transition to low-carbon aviation.

Hybrid Air Vehicles will integrate Dassault Systèmes' 3DEXPERIENCE platform into its business. Airlander 10, its first aircraft platform, will begin production in 2024, with a pathway to zero-emission operations by 2030. By using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to model through-life using virtual twin experiences, Hybrid Air Vehicles can ensure Airlander is developed, manufactured, and operated in an efficient and sustainable manner, whilst preparing for hydrogen-fuelled, zero emissions flight, as Airlander advances to being an early adopter of fuel cell powered electric motors.

Dassault Systèmes has built an ecosystem of highly innovative organisations focused on low-carbon aviation. Through this MoU with Hybrid Air Vehicles, one of the industry's most advanced in bringing new, low-carbon technologies to market, Dassault Systèmes expands this ecosystem as well as the use of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform by companies progressing solutions for sustainable flight.

TriMech, a leading Dassault Systèmes partner, will both implement and support the use of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, using best practices from their years of experience across various industries to ensure the efficiency of Hybrid Air Vehicles' deployment, business processes, and utilisation of their investment.