Ivo Boscarol and Gregor Veble, Pipistrel, Ajdovščina, Slovenia The obstacles only exist inside people's heads! http://obc2012.outofthebox.si/

1. The obstacles only exist inside
Gregor Veble
Pipistrel d.o.o. Ajdovščina
1st Out of the Box Conference 15-17 May 2012University of M

2. Max Ernst
Les cages sont
toujours
imaginaires
1925

3. Aim too high.

4. a x
h o
in g
nd
la
o n
o
M

5. Italian
pipistrello /pipisˈtrɛllo/ m.
[zool.] bat.
Est. 1987

6. 2010 European Business
AwardsThe UKTI Award for
Innovation

7. Virus SW

8. Taurus Electro G2

9. Taurus G4

12. It's easy to make a small fortune in aviation.

13. It's easy to make a small fortune in aviation.
You start with a large fortune.

15. Passion.

16. Aircraft design:form
equals function

17. “Form follows function”
Louis Sullivan, 1896
(according to Wikipedia entry)

18. “Modernists believed, perhaps incorrectly, that airplane
design did not involve any aesthetic decisions by the
airplane designers.”
(Same Wikipedia page)

19. Clarence L.
“Kelly” Johnson
(1910-1990)
(1910-1990)

20. Aircraft design
- horizontally
• Aerodynamics
Structures
• Propulsion
• Controls
Business
• ...

21. Aircraft design - vertically
• Sizing
Preliminary design
• Detail design

22. Aircraft design
as industrial design
as industrial design
• Emphasis on functionality
• Styling a secondary (?) consideration

24. Design
Styling
Engineering
Research

27. Creativity through
constraint
• Constraints limit solutions
Strict requirements keep focus
• To get out of the box, sometimes
you must be squeezed out

28. Green Flight Challenge
• < 1.17 l/100 km per passenger
> 160 km/h
> 322 km, with half hour reserve
< 83 km/h minimum speed
• < 600 m take off distance
• climb to first waypoint,
24 km out at 1200 m

29. 2 seat concept study

30. MTOM: 1500 kg Maximum Power: 150 kW
Competition mass: 1496 kg Continuous Power: 85 kW
Cruise Power: 32 kW
empty: 632 kg (42.2%) L/D (100 mph): ~30
batteries: 500 kg (33.5%)
passengers (4): 364 kg (24.3%) Energy capacity: ~100 kWh

31. Slotted flap design
cL max ≈ 2.6

32. Propeller design

33. QuickTimeª and a
H.264 decompressor
are needed to see this picture.

34. QuickTimeª and a
decompressor
are needed to see this picture.

38. Specialist knowledge.
Lateral communication.
Critical thinking.

39. Passion.

40. Die Kunst, die Wissenschaft und ihre Lehre sind
frei. Der Staat gewährt ihnen Schutz und nimmt an
ihrer Pflege teil.
Weimarer Verfassung (1919), Artikel 142

41. Art, science and the teaching thereof are free. The
state guarantees their protection and takes part in
fostering them.
Weimar Constitution (1919), Article 142

44. www.pipistrel.si
gregor@pipistrel.si