Kerry Lynch stepped into the role of editor of the&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;monthly magazine in May 2022 after serving with&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;for eight years. She joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in December 2014 as a senior editor covering Washington and business aviation news. She has also served on Convention News teams, including as editor of&nbsp;HAI Convention News. Lynch previously spent 25 years with Aviation Week. During her time there, she reported for and later steered&nbsp;The Weekly of Business Aviation, oversaw business aviation content on the&nbsp;Aviation Week Intelligence Network, served on the&nbsp;Show News&nbsp;staff, and held roles as the Washington columnist for&nbsp;Business &amp; Commercial Aviation&nbsp;and&nbsp;Overhaul &amp; Maintenance&nbsp;monthly magazines. In 2021 she was honored with the National Business Aviation Association Platinum Wing Award for lifetime achievement in journalism and was the 2004 recipient of the National Air Transportation Association’s Aviation Journalism Excellence Award. She also has been a recipient of an Aerospace Media Award for business aviation (2022) and NBAA Gold Wing Award (2003, 2024). Lynch graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor of arts in journalism.

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Safran opened a new electrical engineering center of excellence in Créteil, France, that will coalesce its aircraft&nbsp;electrical and power&nbsp;design and engineering expertise that was spread across several facilities.&nbsp;Spanning 6,400-sq-m (69,000-sq-ft), the center will house functions concentrated on electric and hybrid propulsion, power electronics, electrical distribution, and electrical conversion.

 


The facility will house research and technology activities, development and production engineering, program and customer support, and an electrical systems test bench.&nbsp;With 430 employees based at the site, Safran said the facility is designed to foster collaboration between the different teams and at the “heart of the design” of its electrical systems.

 


Safran’s ePower product line is designed at the Créteil site as the company seeks to offer a line of products for future electric and hybrid aircraft. The products cover the entire electrical system, including GeneusPack batteries, EngineUS electric motors, GeneusGrid primary and secondary distribution systems, and GeneusGrid propulsion power management systems.

 


“We are proud to unveil this new center of expertise where we develop the electric propulsion systems that will soon equip small planes for tourism and for pilot training before being extended to regional commercial aircraft and ultimately to hybridize the new generation of thermal engines,” said Safran Electrical and Power CEO Stéphane Cueille. “Our teams are highly motivated by the idea of <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2022-03-09/safran-looks-decarbonized-future">decarbonizing aviation</a> through breakthrough electric technologies.”

Safran COE Consolidates Electrical Design Expertise

Safran's focus on future electric and hybrid products is consolidating at a new electrical engineering center of excellence in Créteil, France.

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