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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
The Czech Association of Scientific and Technical Societies (CSVTS) in cooperation with the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) is organizing the 7th World Engineers Convention WEC 2023 which will take place in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, between 9 – 15 October 2023. The Czech Republic is a friendly country with a […]
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! […]
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 […]
To celebrate its 40th anniversary, the Air and Space Academy (AAE) has decided to organize an international forum to confront the standpoints of several European personalities as to the future of civil and defence aeronautics and space with the aim of bringing to the forefront the contribution of innovation and the major lines of force. […]
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 […]
By Cyril CAVEL , JUICE Project Manager, Airbus Defence and Space and Olivier WITASSE, JUICE Project Scientist, European Space Agency JUICE, a major project of the European Space Agency, is a satellite built by Airbus Defense & Space that is scheduled to take off in 2023 and join Jupiter in 2031. The mission aims to […]
By Vincent Costes, head of GEIPAN at CNES with the participation of Francine Cordier, GEIPAN investigator GEIPAN studies aerospace observations, unexplained phenomena observed in the sky, that have been reported to it since 1977 (46 years). This is one of the many missions of the CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales). It's a very original mission. […]