John O'Connor

John O'Connor is the Director of Product & Market Strategy at Siemens Digital Industries Software. He focuses on helping customer achieve success in their use of engineering software solutions for Aerospace & Defense product development. Prior to Siemens, Mr. O'Connor was a Senior Design Engineer at Lockheed Martin where he led a variety of product design teams.

eVTOLs learn to lighten up

March 4, 2021

We are living through an era of unprecedented innovation in aerospace – from miniature unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to mammoth…

By John O'Connor
6 MIN READ

How to fly the electric aircraft before you build it

March 3, 2020

Where today meets tomorrow: how simulation software is bringing innovative changes to the aerospace industry

By John O'Connor
5 MIN READ

Transitioning aircraft propulsion from carbon to electrons

February 6, 2020

Where today meets tomorrow: how the electric propulsion system may fundamentally change aircraft design “Every American should have reliable, affordable,…

By John O'Connor
4 MIN READ

Attention: There’s no pilot onboard (the future of autonomous aircraft)

December 4, 2019

Boeing recently conducted an indoor test flight using their vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) prototype aircraft capable of hauling a…

By John O'Connor
4 MIN READ

Space travel, the new frontier in tourism

May 8, 2019

If you are looking to escape to an exotic locale unencumbered by tourists, there’s a wide-open destination waiting for you: space.
After all, so far only a handful of people have been able to cas…

By John O'Connor
3 MIN READ

Private space enterprise will fuel the future of flight

April 22, 2019

Need a lift? If you’re going to space, you do.
Space begins at about 62 miles above sea level in the fourth layer of the Earth’s atmosphere called the thermosphere. This is where the Internationa…

By John O'Connor
3 MIN READ

What’s the future for real flying cars?

April 8, 2019

Increasing urbanization means technologists and thought leaders are looking to the skies for faster, more efficient movement of people and objects.
The race to create new breeds of flying vehicle…

By John O'Connor
3 MIN READ

New drones for business signal the future of flight

March 18, 2019

Drones, or unmanned flying vehicles, have been around longer than most people think. The Kettering “Bug,” for instance, was developed during World War I. It was a bomb-carrying unpiloted biplane that…

By John O'Connor
3 MIN READ

The future of flight and changing supplier relationships

May 29, 2018

Business dynamics will change in aerospace supply chains as manufacturers incorporate new technological advances shaping the future of flight.

Advances in materials, propulsion, human mach…

By John O'Connor
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