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Air vehicles

  • 1 Drones: en route for autonomy

    In the future, drones should longer be considered as a special kind of air vehicle, but rather as ordinary aircraft, subject to the same flight safety requirements. This aspect has to be integrated right from the design stage, so it will be easier to prove that they satisfy the requirement for a reasonable risk
  • 2 ONERA's team ranked 2nd among 323 at the NASA "Sky for All" challenge

    Air Mobility for 2035 and Beyond". The objective was to envision the skies of 2035 and design a system that allows vehicles to navigate safely and efficiently in a dense and diverse airspace. 323 challengers from 39 different countries submitted proposals featuring innovative Air Traffic Management (ATM) concepts and technologies, in order to facilitate a transition to an airspace with dense, diverse and autonomous traffic
  • 3 Looking to the future

    Before being supplanted by aeroplanes, dirigibles were the first vehicles enabling man to fly... Air transport in 2015: research laying the groundwork for the future... Hence, in 2010, the ATS 2050 "Air transport 2050: research for preparing for the future", conducted on behalf of EREA11, envisaged various possible developments for air transport and identified priority lines of research