Towards unmanned ships and aircraft? Can machines replace Humans?

Proceedings of the conference held on 9 & 10 décember 2019 at Ecole militaire, Paris Organized by This PDF document brings together all the presentations and debates If the document below doesn’t show up, you can download it by clicking here onference under...

Towards a renewal of supersonic transport?

Slide of the lecture done on 9 october 2019 at the Académie Royale de Belgique – Brussels. By Mr Gérard THERON, former head of the Airbus Propulsion competence centre, AAE member Summary: At a time when supersonic aircraft projects, mainly business aircraft, are...

Airport of the future

Presentation of the Lecture of 12 March 2019 at the Royal Academy of Belgium-Brussels. By Marc Noyelle, former deputy CEO of Aéroports de Paris and president of ADPi, AAE member Abstract: Most “Airports of the Future” (by 2060) will actually be today’s 500...

100 years of wind tunnels since Eiffel

By Bruno CHANETZ, senior research scientist, ONERA At the dawn of the twentieth century, wind tunnels gradually became a must, allowing, in Gustave Eiffel’s words, the transition “from the flair of the builder to the art of the engineer”. Wind...

Study: Automation of transport aircraft by 2050

For nearly 10 years, the French Air and Space Academy (AAE) has launched studies to identify the major risks facing air transport by 2050, with maintaining flight safety remaining a primary objective. The analysis was entrusted to its Civil Aeronautics Commission...

LEAP Story

Lecture by Mrs Fabienne Decorre at the Palais des Academies in Brussels on 21 March 2018. More info on CFM Aeroengine Book on Amazon The Power of Flight Download the...

The climate needs space

Recording of the lecture by Marc Pircher on 29 March 2018-Amphitheatre Léon Duguit – Faculty of Law and Political Science of Bordeaux Download the...