• Towards new European military helicopter programmes

    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 […]

  • Mars, in search of life!

    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 […]

  • EUCASS

    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 […]

  • CAETS 2022 “Engineering a better world: Breakthrough Technologies for Healthcare”

    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) […]

  • Europe conquering exoplanets

    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 […]

  • Security in space: a societal challenge of the 21st century

    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: ambitions and applications

    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   […]

  • The Viability of e-VTOL for urban traffic

    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 […]

  • Aéroscopia celebrates 50 years of the first A300 flight

    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 […]

  • Be an astronaut, in a professional and/or private way

    By Jean-François Clervoy, astronaut, honorary president of Novespace, founder of AirZeroG, fellow of the AAE After a series of unpublished testimonies on his vocation, his missions and the daily life of the astronaut's profession, Jean-François Clervoy will give us his reflections on the contemporary debates affecting the profession in the light of his privileged experience. […]

  • Formal session 2022

    Public session (Grand Auditorium - José Cabanis Media Library) 09:30 : Acceptance speeches Patrick AUDOUIN, specialist in audiovisual archives and oral interviews in video, AAE fellow elected on 25 September 2020, on: "Oral History, a Living Aeronautical Memory" Michel POLACCO, journalist, aviator, former Secretary General for Information, Radio France, AAE Fellow elected on 18 June […]