We organized our internal conference to conclude this semester’s Systems Engineering Development Project (SEP), in which students of the Aeronautics master’s program at TUHH participate. This semester’s projects included the construction of a landing platform, the evaluation of flight physics behavior of hydrogen-powered aircraft, aeroelastic modeling of a flexible wing, and the preparation of a system demonstrator based on a scaled aircraft. This semester, the research institutes ILT (Institute for Air Transportation Systems) and FST were involved in the SEP. We would especially like to thank all students for their engaging presentations, live demonstrations, and discussions. We are confident that the past months have been a great learning experience for you!

Oliver Luderer has successfully completed his doctoral defense. His dissertation, Real-Time Capable Hybrid Load Observer for Aircraft with Distributed Propulsion, presents the development and validation of a method for estimating structural loads in advanced aircraft configurations featuring distributed propulsion and propeller–wing interactions. The proposed approach combines a linear parameter-varying flight-dynamics model with a data-driven correction to enhance computational efficiency and estimation accuracy. Its performance is demonstrated through both simulated flight tests and experimental wind tunnel campaigns, achieving accuracy comparable to state-of-the-art methods while reducing model complexity and enabling real-time application.