Case Study: Beyond Aero accelerates hydrogen aircraft development with Dassault Syste8mes 3DEXPERIENCE

Beyond Aero hydrogen propulsion aircraft | Customer Story

Beyond Aero, a French startup, is developing the world's first electric business aircraft designed for hydrogen propulsion. Their challenge was to master the complexity of designing a new aircraft architecture from scratch to integrate hydrogen tanks and fuel cell systems within an ambitious timeframe. They partnered with Dassault Systèmes to address this using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on the cloud.

The solution from Dassault Systèmes provided a cloud-based PLM backbone, combining design, simulation, and model-based systems engineering (MBSE) with CATIA applications. This MODSIM approach allowed Beyond Aero to create a simplified virtual twin, accelerating development by enabling fast iteration and maintaining full traceability. The measurable result was the successful test flight of their 85kW scale hydrogen-electric propulsion system, a major milestone paving the way for their aircraft, named One, which is expected to have a range seven times greater than battery-only alternatives.

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