Claudio Valente

Claudio Valente is a highly skilled engineer with extensive experience in fatigue and damage tolerance analysis, currently serving as Principal Engineer at Bell Flight since August 2019, where responsibilities include supporting the design and development of the Bell FLRAA and Bell360 aircraft. Prior to this, Claudio held various engineering roles at Leonardo from January 2007 to July 2019, contributing to the AW609 Tilt-Rotor program, including fatigue analysis, certification test planning, and overseeing fatigue tests for critical components. Claudio's career began at Avio Aero as a Manufacturing Engineer, where optimization of production specifications for aircraft engine components was achieved. Claudio holds a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, obtained in 2005.