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Overall designs of air vehicles that minimise environmental impact and fuel consumption

Challenge/Domain
Challenge: 
Protecting the environment and the energy supply
Domain category: 
Technology
Enabler
Enabler: 
Overall designs of air vehicles that minimise environmental impact and fuel consumption
Cluster of enablers: 
An extraordinary technological effort to define the air vehicles of the future that minimise environmental impact and energy consumption
Capability
Capability: 
To Evolve innovative configurations of Air Vehicle that minimise environmental impact and energy consumption
Sub capability: 
To evolve innovative configurations of Commercial aircraft - Long Range
R&I needs: 
- Aircraft configuration design including flight physics (aerodynamics, loads, acoustics, performance,..), engine integration, strutural and system concepts - Demonstrations by wing tunnel tests, potentialy flight test - Overall vehicle simulation capabilities and modelisation identification
Achievements
2020: 
* Ultimate conventionnal configuration supporting open rotor or ultra high by-path ratio engines and natural laminar flow wings and using the technos of enablers 2 and 4 * Noise shielding for engines and landing gears * TRL4/5 status for unconventionnal configurations using UHBPR or open rotor (TRL6 in 2025) and supporting the energy transition anticiapted during the 21st century * TR2/3 for radically unconventional concepts using novel propulsion system * Definition of the 2050 air transport concepts.
2035: 
Unconventional concepts using novel propulsion system (unstable Aircraft, flow control, full wing laminarity, embedded or distributed proplusion) aided by single man cockpit capability
2050: 
* Concepts based on bio inspired materials, bio mimicry approach and alternative energy source for A/C propulsion to comply with the energy and environmental objectives including the newly defined climate impact criteria * Environmental friendly, the vehicle type of concepts are supporting the air transport principles defined in WG2 (e.g. Modularity, higher speed transport, VTOL,...) * Vehicles will have no or a single pilot on board
Key Performance Indicator: 
-50%(-10 EPNdB per op) in 2020 -53% (-11 EPNdB per op) in 2035 -65% (-15 EPNdB per op) in 2050 + TBD % improvement on NAP Implementation Progress Indicator

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