An insight into the future of in-flight experience: the good, the promising and the ugly
January 20, 2016
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end”. Ernest Hemingway might have used it in a very different context but if you travel quite frequently on long/short haul flights, you begin to understand the significance of having a comfortable experience on-board… I’m quite used …
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 …