Air & Space EuropePub Date : 2001-05-01DOI: 10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90085-1
Alan Partridge (Manager), Edward F.J. Shelton (Scientist)
{"title":"Processing and mechanical property studies of orthorhombic titanium-aluminide-based alloys","authors":"Alan Partridge (Manager), Edward F.J. Shelton (Scientist)","doi":"10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90085-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90085-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Alloys based on the intermetallic compound orthorhombic titanium aluminide have the potential to replace steels, nickel and titanium alloys for some aero-engine component applications. The introduction of orthorhombic alloys could result in reduced weight and higher operating temperatures for engines. This in turn would lead to higher thrust-to-weight ratios and greater fuel efficiency. The Brite-Euram-funded programme EPROTAC is developing processing routes for orthorhombic alloy components with properties which are superior to current alloys.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100069,"journal":{"name":"Air & Space Europe","volume":"3 3","pages":"Pages 170-173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90085-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72281002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Air & Space EuropePub Date : 2001-05-01DOI: 10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90088-7
Joseph Huysseune, P. Palmer
{"title":"NEVADA-PAMELA-VICTORIA: Towards the definition of new aircraft electronic systems","authors":"Joseph Huysseune, P. Palmer","doi":"10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90088-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90088-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100069,"journal":{"name":"Air & Space Europe","volume":"17 1","pages":"180-183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79509972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Air & Space EuropePub Date : 2001-05-01DOI: 10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90068-1
Peter Thiede (Senior RTD Project Manager Lecturer)
{"title":"EUROLIFT - advanced high lift aerodynamics for transport aircraft","authors":"Peter Thiede (Senior RTD Project Manager Lecturer)","doi":"10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90068-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90068-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The overall objective of the European High Lift Programme (EUROLIFT) is to reduce time and cost of the design process of high lift systems which will be reached by the development of more reliable computational and experimental design tools. This paper gives an overview of the EUROLIFT project and presents results of the first year.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100069,"journal":{"name":"Air & Space Europe","volume":"3 3","pages":"Pages 105-108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90068-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82972396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Air & Space EuropePub Date : 2001-05-01DOI: 10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90045-0
VictorM. Aguado
{"title":"The global challenges for EUROCONTROL","authors":"VictorM. Aguado","doi":"10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90045-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90045-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100069,"journal":{"name":"Air & Space Europe","volume":"3 3","pages":"Pages 24-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90045-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85818420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Air & Space EuropePub Date : 2001-05-01DOI: 10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90121-2
B. Blasch, F. Hrachowitz
{"title":"The Austrian aeronautics programme - an example for an initiative in a smaller EU member state","authors":"B. Blasch, F. Hrachowitz","doi":"10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90121-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90121-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100069,"journal":{"name":"Air & Space Europe","volume":"78 1","pages":"289-290"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86054336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Air & Space EuropePub Date : 2001-05-01DOI: 10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90115-7
K. Klein, M. Roeder, H. Maycroft
{"title":"Current research projects on airport surface movement guidance and control systems","authors":"K. Klein, M. Roeder, H. Maycroft","doi":"10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90115-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90115-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100069,"journal":{"name":"Air & Space Europe","volume":"30 1","pages":"271-274"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76336431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Air & Space EuropePub Date : 2001-05-01DOI: 10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90102-9
J. Wiggenraad, A. Michielsen, David Santoro, F. Lepage, C. Kindervater, F. Beltran, M. Al-Khalil
{"title":"Finite element methodologies development to simulate the behaviour of composite fuselage structure and correlation with drop test","authors":"J. Wiggenraad, A. Michielsen, David Santoro, F. Lepage, C. Kindervater, F. Beltran, M. Al-Khalil","doi":"10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90102-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90102-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100069,"journal":{"name":"Air & Space Europe","volume":"20 1","pages":"228-233"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88788055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Air & Space EuropePub Date : 2001-05-01DOI: 10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90082-6
Neil Pickard
{"title":"Efficient and environmentally friendly aero-engine (EEFAE) targeted research action","authors":"Neil Pickard","doi":"10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90082-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90082-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Environmental issues, such as noise and exhaust gas emissions, will have a major impact upon the design and development of future-generation aircraft propulsion systems. The key objective of the European aero-engine industry is to strengthen competitiveness whilst ensuring that sustainable market growth is achieved with due consideration to environmental and safety issues. For this aim to be achieved, future aircraft gas turbine engines must provide increasing cycle performance at reduced weight (i.e. increased thrust-to-weight ratio) in order to minimise fuel consumption and consequently reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses. It is therefore vitally important that the European aero-engine industry is able to optimise its research and technology resources through an integrated approach.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100069,"journal":{"name":"Air & Space Europe","volume":"3 3","pages":"Pages 161-162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90082-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"104602277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Air & Space EuropePub Date : 2001-05-01DOI: 10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90067-X
Bryan E. Humphreys
{"title":"Working towards the ideal laminar flow structure","authors":"Bryan E. Humphreys","doi":"10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90067-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90067-X","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Airlines and aircraft manufacturers are forecasting significant incerases in passenger traffic over the next 20 years (1), (2) but it is becoming increasingly apparent that, given a future scenario of increasing fuel costs and environmental controls, this is unlikely to be sustainable unless aircraft become more efficient and environmentally friendly than those in service today.</p><p>Hybrid Laminar Flow (HLF) offers a significant contribution towards any overall efficiency improvement but requires relatively complex structures and systems leading to increases in weight, cost and maintenance. Since HLF has never been applied on a production basis, no mature manufacturing solution has evolved for the associated structure or systems. This paper reviews the requirements for HLF strutures and the progress made towards production solutions. It also recognises that the optimum structure may be influenced by the relative importance of fuel saving (or emissions reduction) compared with operating cost reductions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100069,"journal":{"name":"Air & Space Europe","volume":"3 3","pages":"Pages 101-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1290-0958(01)90067-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90398083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}