IATA Technology Roadmap 2023, Grist for the Mill, Part-2

IATA Technology Roadmap 2023, Grist for the Mill, Part-2

Our next web story continues with how the aviation and aerospace industries have assembled a roadmap for Net-Zero. This next story poses three approaches for reducing the in-flight energy requirements of aircraft. The following three ideas are deploying composites,...
Variable Camber with New Control Surfaces

Variable Camber with New Control Surfaces

Variable camber is an intended feature of future aircraft wings that will change the main aerofoil’s camber, or curvature, during flight for improved fuel efficiencies and green aviation operations. A simple example is provided in Figure 1, which indicates how the...
Laminar Flow Control Takes Hold on the Airbus A340

Laminar Flow Control Takes Hold on the Airbus A340

Aerodynamic technology continues to progress and develop new designs for airplanes and wings, each with significantly reduced drag. One new technology that has made more recent progress is Laminar Flow Control. There are several forms of Laminar Flow Control (LFC)...
ATI’s concept piece for a hydrogen-powered aircraft

ATI’s concept piece for a hydrogen-powered aircraft

The FlyZero project, which is led by the Aerospace Technology Institute and is funded by the UK government, has come up with a concept for a liquid hydrogen-powered midsize aircraft. The aircraft is based on the Boeing 767 class design, which has a 54-meter wingspan...