• 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 […]

  • RAeS Future Combat Air and Space Capabilities Summit

    Overview The increased complexity of modern warfare requires the British Armed Forces, along with its allies in NATO and across the world, to be prepared to fight as a joint force in a multi-threat environment in order to achieve desired effects in all domains and at the strategic, operational and tactical levels. In an increasingly […]

  • 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 […]

  • WEC 2023

    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 […]

  • 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 […]