Result of a multidisciplinary task force of the Onera, the study entitled" Research paths for a viable airtransport industry in 2050", lays the groundwork for a long-term analysis and also identifies the priority research objectives
Researchers at ONERA are thinking about what an airtransport system with no pilot and with no controller would be like... To help define an effective and safe future airtransport system, we are thinking about an entirely automatic airtransport system... Neither, but rather the futurology work of an industrial consortium of researchers and academics coordinated by ONERA who, without wishing to dehumanize everything, are trying to find out what degree of automation is feasible as far as airtransport is concerned
The two parties will together explore the design of the future ATM, flight safety, navigation by satellite (GNSS, etc.), the environment and airtransport economics. The ENAC and ONERA will act in concert in these fields for the DGAC (General Directorate for Civil Aviation) and European authorities
After WWI, military aviation became airtransport. Between the two wars, military aircraft were transformed into transport aircraft, for passengers and mail
It enables us to plan new directions for work, particularly in airborne turbulence detection systems, a crucial problem for airtransport because it conditions the minimum distance between two aircraft... Atmospheric turbulence is an issue for airtransport comfort and safety
Infrastructure d'Evaluation de Systèmes de Transport Aérien [air transportation system evaluation infrastructure]. Clean Airport is its first operational application, intended for the evaluation of the environmental impact of airtransport systems, a concept that can be broken down to the scale of a single device or of an entire fleet
The challenge: supplementing the multimodal transport of the future with an air link to provide greater flexibility and speed... The personal plane, the air link of a future multimodal transport system... It is far too early to say whether such an individual airtransport system is technically feasible, and still more to judge its economic relevance