Innovation for sustainable aviation in a global environment: Proceedings of the sixth European Aeronautics Days, Madrid, 30 March–1 April 2011

505 Pages·2012·22.21 MB·English

by  Dietrich Knörzer

INNOVATION FOR SUSTAINABLE AVIATION
IN A GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
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Innnovatioon for Sustaiinable Aviattion
in aa Global Envvironmment
PProceedinggs of the Siixth Europeean Aeronaautics Dayys
Madrid, 330 March – 1 AApril 2011
Edited byy
Diettrich Knöörzer
and
Joachhim Szoddruch
Amstterdam • Berrlin • Tokyo •• Washington, DC
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Preface
The Sixth European Aeronautics Days 2011, organised by the Spanish research agency
CDTI and supported by the European Commission, took place in the Madrid Palacio
Municipal de Congresos from 30th March to 1st April 2011. It was the largest Aero-
days conference so far with more than 1400 participants coming from 45 countries,
with an extensive exhibition area and numerous side-events of strategic importance to
Europe’s aeronautical research and innovation.
The Aerodays offered a great opportunity for aviation stakeholders at all levels to
meet and discuss the latest advances in aeronautics and air transport, not only in Europe
but also worldwide. Representatives from industry, research centres, universities and
politics highly appreciated the opportunity to receive top-level information on strate-
gies as well as on the advances of specific research programmes. The unique chance to
meet and communicate across all branches and hierarchies opened up new partnerships
and encouraged potential future collaboration.
Furthermore, the Aerodays offered the perfect scenario and timing to present
Europe’s Vision for Aviation, ‘Flightpath 2050’.
Innovation for Sustainable Aviation in a Global Environment
The conference motto is clearly directed towards the future challenges of aviation as
well as to the recent political strategies of the European Commission. The general mes-
sages from the Commission and high level industrial and research leaders provided a
clear view on the way ahead in research and innovation. It also highlighted the impor-
tance of aeronautical research within the Framework Programme.
Preparing the Future of Aviation
On the basis of global development it is evident that only in a joint European effort can
the future in aeronautics be mastered. Industrial needs and environmental goals require
research and innovation efforts leading eventually to an economically viable and envi-
ronmentally sustainable air transport where aircraft, airports, air traffic management
and operation contribute to a balanced and overall optimised system.
Aviation Technologies
Excellent overviews and insights into various community research projects were pro-
vided. The very good progress in greening of the air transport with topics in flight
physics-, noise and vibration-, propulsion- and climate research as well as solutions for
alternative fuels were presented. Equally important contributors to future aviation goals
are air traffic operations and certainly cost efficiency, including structures-, systems-,
production- and maintenance technologies.
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Within the section pioneering the air transport a high emphasis was placed on the
longer-term view into the future of aeronautics and the innovative solutions with a high
potential for fulfilling the goals of Europe’s ambitious vision.
The safety and security sessions provided an insight into the overall mandatory
certification aspects of novel technologies and presented important developments in
securing the air transport system of the future.
National and International Programmes
The excellent results in Europe for building the future of aviation are not only based on
programmes of the European Commission but are a common achievement together
with the specific research programmes of the Member States. European institutions and
national research establishments have also aligned their goals to the European vision.
Complimentary research and the advances in forming sustainable European networks
supported by initiatives of the European Commission have resulted in outstanding
achievements and an engaged and powerful workforce in industry, research and aca-
demia.
However, aeronautics is part of a global community and dependent on worldwide
developments. Thus international cooperation is mandatory and strongly supported.
Europe’s Vision ‘Flightpath 2050’
Europe’s Vision for Aviation ‘Flightpath 2050’, setting out a European vision for the
future of aviation, emphasises where those working in aviation see the priorities for the
relevant policy, research and innovation instruments. It is a high-level vision of Europe
leading with an aviation industry that is clean, competitive, safe and secure. At the
Aerodays perspectives were shown how to implement this new Vision 2050 through a
way forward to the new Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA).
Post-Conference Proceedings
After almost ten years of European research within the 6th and 7th Research Frame-
work Programmes (2002–2006; 2007–2013) and in view of the coming Framework
Programme ‘Horizon 2020’ (2014–2020) the Commission decided to support the pub-
lication of this special issue of the Conference Proceedings of the Aerodays in Madrid.
Assisted by the Scientific Advisory Committee, selected papers from the policy and
technical sessions were collected with the intention to provide the reader with a repre-
sentative picture of the main themes and issues addressed.
The proceedings are divided into three main chapters:
• Policy and Strategy
• Aviation Technologies and Operations
• National and International Programmes
Due to the strategic importance of this conference the proceedings constitute a ref-
erence document providing an overview on aeronautical research within Europe espe-
cially devoted to Commission supported programmes and networks.
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Scientific Advisory Committee
A Scientific Advisory Committee was set up by the European Commission in order to
provide advice on the scientific and technical content of the Aerodays Conference as
well as evaluate and coordinate the final content of these proceedings. Its members
were:
Fred Abbink
Luis da Costa Campos
Anders Gustafsson
Jim Lawler
José Martin Hernandez
Fernando Monge Gómez
Cesar Puentes
Christian Pusch
Dieter Schmitt
Clyde Warsop
Acknowledgements
We wish to acknowledge our gratitude and thanks to the members of the Scientific Ad-
visory Committee and to the authors of the papers for their great effort and cooperation
to realise these Post-Conference Proceedings. We would also like to thank sincerely
Jean-Pierre Sanfourche of the Council of European Aerospace Societies (CEAS), who
acted as the co-ordinating editor for the whole book, and Ms Krisztina Simonne-Paldy
of the Aeronautics team of DG Research & Innovation of the European Commission,
who implemented all the editorial requirements.
Joachim Szodruch
Dietrich Knörzer
Contacts:
Dietrich Knörzer ([email protected])
Joachim Szodruch ([email protected])
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Forewords
Aeronautics and air transport are key industries for Europe, in which public and private
stakeholders provide world leadership and help to meet society’s needs by ensuring the
sustainable mobility of passengers and of freight. These industries help to generate
wealth and economic growth, provide highly skilled jobs and innovation and foster
Europe’s knowledge economy through substantial R&D investments.
If Europe is to maintain its economic strength in the future, it needs to evolve into
a true Innovation Union where knowledge can be shared freely across borders, and
where synergies between research and industry contribute to increasing our global
competitiveness. This is especially true for the air transport and aeronautics sectors,
where their success is dependant on a high degree of research and innovation.
Ten years ago the Vision for 2020 was developed for European aeronautics; it suc-
cessfully gave guidance to setting priorities for research and technological develop-
ments at European, national and industrial level.
The time had come for a new Vision, which was presented at the Sixth European
Aeronautics Days 2011. This conference brought together researchers, engineers, man-
agers and policy makers active in the field of aeronautics and air transport from all over
Europe, and the world.
Aerodays 2011 inspired specialists to look beyond their particular field, and in-
spired generalists to take advantage of the presence of expertise in key aviation tech-
nologies. Together they will come up with solutions for tackling some of Europe’s
most pressing challenges by creating a highly competitive aeronautics and air transport
industry for Europe which is greener, safer and more secure.

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn Siim Kallas
European Commissioner for Vice-President of the European
Research, Innovation and Science Commission and Commissioner for
Transport