The viability of small electric air vehicles

By André Bord, former Chief Engineer A320, Airbus, former Technical Director ATR, member of the AAE The use of electric energy sources deemed “green” for the propulsion of air vehicles seems, for a long time, reserved for small vehicles meeting the needs...

The lightest air is soaring to new horizons

Replay of the conference day of 03/11/2021 at the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie with the interventions (in french only): New prospects for airships by Pascal TAILLANDIER, head of captive and airship balloon projects at ONERA Stratospheric balloons for...

Space Explorers

Videoconference (in French) on 26 October 2021 by Michel Tognini,pilot, astronaut, former head of the European Astronaut Center, correspondent of the AAE. Are there adventures that make you dream? That of Space is one of them. Michel Tognini is one of the few French...

CSG: a French, European, Guyanese space centre

Video conference (in French) by Bernard Chemoul,Inspector General, CNES, April 27, 2021. The Guiana Space Centre was the result of the national political will in the mid-1960s to endow France with an autonomous space policy. With its exceptional location, the CSG is...

Solemn session 2020

Recording of the 2020 Solemn Session in distancing See the playlist directly on Youtube

3D printing a challenge for aeronautics

Today, additive manufacturing is used industrially for parts that are still relatively simple, replacing conventional parts. Tomorrow, it will make more complex parts possible, benefiting from mass and cost reductions. To achieve this, challenges will have to be met...

New designs for the aircraft wings of the future bioinspired

Presentation of the lecture by Marianna Braza, Research Director at the CNRS, Toulouse Institute of Fluid Mechanics on March 30, 2021 (in distance-in french only) Our activities on the theme of morphing, which consists of optimizing the shape and vibrational behavior...