The vibration testcampaign for the new A350XWB, plane n° 1, conducted under the responsibility of ONERA in cooperation with the German Aerospace Center DLR, was completed successfully in late April... According to the schedule drawn up together with Airbus, a series of tests focused on the dynamics of the nose gear was carried out on plane No. 3, two weeks after the first campaign
Tests on a tilt-rotor model, that is to say the aerodynamic configuration of an aircraft where the rotors can tilt in flight, have been completed in the large S1MA wind tunnel at Modane, France. These tests were accomplished on a large-scale model as part of the European project NICETRIP, to study the technological feasibility of a civil tilt-rotor aircraft
In order to better understand the link between aeronautical fine-particle emissions and the formation of condensation trails in aircraft wakes, ONERA has implemented, together with Snecma, the MERMOSE testcampaign to finely characterize gaseous chemical species and particulate matter emissions of a complete aircraft engine
In 2010, Onera conducted a testcampaign, a worldwide first of its kind, subjecting a full-scale space solar panel to a large number of electrostatic discharges. The experiment, conducted in an IABG structure in Germany, showed the propagation of discharges to the entire solar panel
