By Stéphane Viala, Senior Vice President Engineering, Head of Design Organization, ATR ATR (Regional Transport Aircraft) is the world leader in the regional turboprop segment. ATR created in 1981 to celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2021. Since its creation, the ATR has relied on a low carbon footprint by implementing a policy of incremental evolution […]
Lecture by Michel Wachenheim, president of Air & Space Academy The lecture will present the challenges that aviation has to overcome for decarbonising its activities: clear and believable communication, technology capabilities including infrastructure, economic impacts, global interoperability including international strategies, and common assessment of the societal value of air transport. This presentation will refer to […]
NH90 of the Spanish Air Force © AIRBUS An Air and Space Academy working group carried out an analysis that looked back on the development procedures of today’s military rotorcraft, the vast majority of which were built in European cooperation, in order to identify the needs, threats, and specifications to be taken into account for […]
By Sylvestre Maurice, astrophysicist at IRAP, specialist in Martian exploration, correspondent of the AAE. These are great times! To date, 12 vehicles are operational around Mars or on its surface. A trophy of national supremacy, a field of technological experimentation, a source of wonder for the people who fervently follow this adventure, the exploration of […]
France and Belgium are joining forces and invite you to Lille (France, #hellolille) from July 3 to 7, 2022, on the occasion of the 9th European Conference of Aerospace Sciences organized by EUCASS. This edition has received the support of the Association Aéronautique et Astronautique de France (3AF) and will be produced in partnership with […]
The Académie des technologies, in partnership with Dassault Systèmes and with the support of Air Liquide, Fondation Bettencourt Schueller, Fondation de l'Académie des technologies, Servier, European Institute for creative Strategies & Innovation, and Paris Club of Innovation Directors, organizes this year the World Congress of CAETS (International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences) […]
By Willy Benz, Professor of Astrophysics, University of Bern, President-Elect International Astronomical Union (IAU), AAE correspondent. The discovery of the first exoplanet in 1995 by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (discovery awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2019) triggered a real revolution in astronomy with the aim of characterizing these planets and searching for life […]
By Gal. Jean-Daniel Testé, former Joint Space Commander, France Director of AEROSPACELAB, AAE correspondent. In a world where space risks and threats (debris proliferation, anti-satellite weapons experimentation, unfriendly actions in space) are steadily increasing, accurate knowledge of space activities is today a great challenge for space nations around the world. France and Europe must play […]
Civilian drones have developed rapidly, but several ambitions remain unmet for technical or regulatory reasons. Many business applications are already up and running; we can already analyze the achievements of Air France and SNCF. (Lecture will be done in french) "Small drones, big ambitions" by Stéphane MORELLI, Head of Drone Simulation Products, Sogitec […]
By André BORD, Honorary Member of the Air and Space Academy This presentation analyses the design characteristics and performances of electrically powered aircraft , aimed at the urban passenger transport market , which could significantly reduce both the urban traffic congestion and its associated pollution. The specification for these aircraft are based upon the Uber […]
October 28, 1972, 10:39 am: The Toulouse sky is clear! Max Fischl, captain and Bernard Ziegler, flight test director, Roméo Zinzoni, flight engineer and engineers Pierre Caneill and Gunther Scherrer launch the first wide-body aircraft, a twin-engine built by Airbus. After a perfectly controlled flight, only a strong side wind, close to the extreme limits […]
