Luca Bertola
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Cryogenic applications for visionary aircraft concepts
December 18, 2015
The ambitious long-term environmental targets set by the European Commission (2011) and the Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe (ACARE) require airframers and their suppliers to improve the integration between an aircraft’s propulsion system and the airframe… In particular, concepts such as the distribution of the thrust generation along an airframe’s main components and …
How Do Aeroplanes Stay Stable in the Sky?
August 19, 2014
Many years of testing and implementing advanced technologies have passed, but most people still wonder how an airplane flies despite air travel representing such a popular mode of transport in the 21st century. In 1895 Lord Kelvin stated that ‘heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible’. It is safe to say that he has been proved definitively …
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