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Our main pages on this subject:
| 1. | The ice hunt starts here - Zoom in the Lab | | | Problem : there is no full size wind tunnel equipped with cooling systems appropriate for the study of ice on large aircraft.... At the moment, on large aircraft, hot air at 180 °C is taken from the engine to melt the ice.... | | | | 2. | Flying Wings - ONERA / DAAP-EN | | | The next generation, the Airbus A380, will be the largest commercial transport ever built, carrying 555 passengers in a 3-class layout.Large capacity aircrafts have to fit in a 80 - meter sided square.. Designing such a large capacity aircraft brings up new challenges.. It requires much more than a simple extrapolation from previous aircraft, for several technical reasons including limits on overall dimensions : to be able to operate from most existing airports, the airplane footprint can not exceed 80 meters square.. | | |
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