The 10th Asian Australian Rotorcraft Forum is being organized by the Vertical Flight Society’s Australia Chapter, with the support of educational members, Melbourne University and Sydney University. It will be held at the Melbourne Connect Precinct, an innovation hub leveraging resources and talents from Melbourne University, government and industry partners across Australia.

The Asian Australian Rotorcraft (ARF) Forum was established by the joint initiative of Arvind Sinha (Australia), Pinqi Xia (China), Prashant Pawar (India), Yasutada Tanabe (Japan) and Duck Joo Lee (South Korea). Coordinated by South Korea a meeting was organised in Busan in 2011 to deliberate on the way forward. This resulted in convening the Inaugural ARF-1 at Busan on 12-15 Feb 2012. With 3 Special Session Presentations, 57 Paper Presentations and 11 Posters, the ARF foundation was laid.

The ARF Countries participation commenced with Australia, China, India, Japan, and South Korea, under support of the local Vertical Flight Society (VFS) Chapters; with Singapore joining mid of the series and Turkey during the second round.

The ARF Series of Conference is a yearly rotational forum and held in the countries that are part of ARF. The ARF Series has gone through one rotation and is now on the second round as follows: a) ARF-1 South Korea, 12-15 Feb 2012; b) ARF-2 China, 8-11 Sep 2013; c) ARF-3 Australia, 18-19 Dec 2014; d) ARF-4 India, 16-18 Nov 2015; e) ARF-5 Singapore 17-18 Nov 2016; f) ARF-6 Japan 6-7 Nov 2017; g) ARF-7 South Korea, 30 Oct-1 Nov 2018 ; h) ARF-8 Turkey, 30 Oct-2 Nov 1019; i) ARF-9 China, 6-8 Nov 2023; and j) ARF-10 Australia 7-8 Nov 2024.

ARF-10 program over two days (7-8 Nov 24) will comprise of ‘Keynote and Referred Paper Presentations’ and a ‘Banquet and Awards Evening’. The Presentation Sessions will be in the five subdisciplines of Aerospace specific to Rotorcraft: Aerodynamics, Structures & Materials, Propulsion, Systems and Design.