• RISE: on the way to carbon-free aviation!

    By Jérôme Bonini , Senior Vice President, Research and Technology, Safran Aircraft Engines Reducing engine consumption remains a major element in the future of aeronautics. Although much progress has been made over the past 50 years, technological breakthroughs associated with the use of renewable fuels must be considered in the next 10 years in order […]

  • First asteroid deflection test with DART and HERA missions

    By Dr. Patrick Michel, Director of Research at the CNRS/Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, ESA Hera Mission Scientific Manager The DART (NASA) and Hera (ESA) missions are the first fully documented asteroid deflection test based on the kinetic impactor technique, to verify and potentially validate this technique and numerical simulations of asteroid-scale impacts. The first […]

  • ARTEMIS programme: A European astronaut soon on the Moon?

    By Jean Blouvac , Head of the Exploration and Human Spaceflight Program, CNES At the November 2022 Ministerial Conference, ESA Member States confirmed their involvement in human exploration and flight through the Terrae Nova programme. A few days before the launch of the ARTEMIS I mission was successfully carried out allowing the first mission of […]

  • Airbus pioneers sustainable aviation for an open and environmentally friendly world

    By Marc Hamy, President Corporate Affairs, Airbus, fellow of the AAE Aviation is not only an extremely fast, safe and efficient means of transport. This is what makes it possible to connect all the countries of the world in less than 24 hours, to dispersed families to reunite, to economies to develop and open up […]

  • Aviation was born with petrol: now what?

    By Xavier Bouis, President of the Energy and Environment Commission of the Air and Space Academy (C2E) Since 1800, fossil energy and its use in machines have gradually freed us from the "survival" mode that our ancestors knew... Agriculture, medicine, housing, transport, industry, leisure, free time... The unthinkable is there, accessible to many if not […]

  • Electric aircraft: the future of urban mobility?

    By Alain Cassier, President of the Program Committee of the UAM by e-VTOL conference, fellow of the AAE Many multi-rotor electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) projects are emerging and target the urban air taxi and urban aeromobility (UAM= Urban Air Mobility) markets. They give hope that everyone will soon be able to move around […]

  • AAE Workshop: Towards new European military helicopter programmes

    A forum entitled "Towards New European Military Helicopter Programs", organized by the Air and Space Academy, was held in Paris on June 15, 2022, during the Eurosatory Exhibition. This forum confirmed that it is time to prepare the next generation of rotorcraft, the key points are to define a common set of capability requirements at […]

  • Satellites for risk and disaster management

    By Gil Denis , Head of Technology Development, Airbus Defence and Space and Alix Roumagnac , President, Predict Services Climate change increases people's exposure to risks in general and hydrometeorological risks in particular. Since the beginning of the space age, satellites have played an important role in managing risks and major disasters. The two speakers […]

  • Mars in search of life

    By Sylvestre Maurice, astrophysicist at IRAP, specialist in Martian exploration, AAE correspondent These are great times! To date, 12 vehicles are operational around Mars or on its surface. Trophy of national supremacy, field of technological experiments, source of wonder for the peoples who follow with fervor this adventure, the exploration of the red planet represents […]

  • Aviation was born with oil : so what now?

    By Xavier Bouis, Chairman of the Energy and Environment Commission of the Air and Space Academy (C2E) Since 1800, fossil fuels and their use in machines have gradually liberated us from the "survival" mode of our ancestors... Agriculture, medicine, housing, transport, industry, leisure, free time... The unimaginable is here, accessible to many if not all! […]

  • Decarbonisation of aviation: a race against time

    By Jérémy Caussade, co-founder, president and chief engineer, AURA AERO Aviation naturally tends to want to decarbonize. Simply because his obsession is to spend less to cost less, especially since for 50 years oil has been more and more expensive. Technological developments are often staged. For barely ten years these innovations have been linked and […]

  • Formal Session of the 40th anniversary

    From 9:15 to 12:00: Public session Grand Auditorium – José Cabanis Media Library 1 alley Jacques Chaban DelmasFrom 14:00 to 17:00: Formal session Hall of Illustrious – Town Hall Place du Capitole9:15 - Acceptance speech Philippe BORENTIN, Historian of Concorde, fellow of Section 5, elected on June 16, 2022, on: "What am I doing on […]