Discovery Café – Flying High – Canada’s Future Low-Altitude Economy
Thursday, November 26, 2026 at 7:00 PM, Blackburn Community Hall, 190 Glen Park Drive
Canada has historically been a leading aerospace country, with one of the largest traditional aerospace sectors relative to population. However, change is coming in the form of “advanced air mobility”, representing one of the most disruptive shifts in the global aerospace sector since the introduction of the jet engine. Advanced air mobility, or AAM, includes well-known technologies such as military and recreational drones, as well as less prominent advances such as pilotless air taxis, wide-scale use of autonomous delivery drones, novel vertical take-off and landing aircraft, and electrically powered aircraft, among others.
Dr. Jeremy Laliberté, from Carleton’s Advanced Aircraft Design Laboratory, will share recent advances in this emerging field and discuss the impact on Canada’s traditional aerospace sector and the broader Canadian economy as low-altitude advanced air mobility technologies take flight.
Dr. Laliberte is a Professor and Associate Chair – Aerospace Engineering at Carleton University in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace. Please visit the BCA webpage at blackburnhamlet.ca/261126 for Dr. Laliberte`s complete biography.
Admission to Discovery Café is free and no registration is required. All ages are welcome. Refreshments will be served.
Questions? Please email barbara@blackburnhamlet.ca.
Hope to see you there!