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"""2nd Generation Active Wing“ – Active Flow- Loads & Noise control on next generation wing" (AFLONEXT)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2018,

AFLoNext is a four year EC L2 project with the objective of proving and maturing highly promising flow control technologies for novel aircraft configurations to achieve a quantum leap in improving aircraft’s performance and thus reducing the environmental footprint. The project consortium is composed by forty European partners from fifteen countries. The work has been broken down into seven work p ...
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High Altitude Ice Crystals (HAIC)

Start date: Aug 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

Commercial aircraft have been experiencing in-service events while flying in the vicinity of deep convective clouds since at least the early 1990s. Heated probes and engines are the areas of air-craft most prone to mixed phase and glaciated icing threat. In anticipation of regulation changes regarding mixed phase and glaciated icing conditions, the HAIC project will provide the necessary Acceptabl ...
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LOw COst Manufacturing and Assembly of Composite and Hybrid Structures (LOCOMACHS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

The continued use of composite materials in the aerospace industry has been addressed in several past research projects which have focused on new design solutions and composite manufacturing processes. However an area which has been given much less attention up until now is how to achieve a time and cost effective lean assembly production system. The current airframe assembly process of composite ...
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Design and manufacture of a flight worthy intake system (scoop/NACA divergent intake) SCOOP AND NACA DIVERGENT INTAKE TRIAL (SANDIT) (SANDIT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

...e design, coupled with a wealth of experience in complex structures andhaving gained a detailed understanding of scoop intake design from successful delivery of the original JTI funded scoop program, GKN and its partners are very well positioned to optimise design solutions and provide the most appropriate design for icing performance, acoustic design and application, manufacturing techniques and ...
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Design, Manufacturing, Qualification and Assembly of an Improved NLF Wing Leading Edge and Upper Cover Flight Test Article (ImpNLFFD)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

A Natural Laminar Flow (NLF) aerofoil is considered to be one of the key technologies to reduce drag and improve the performance of an aircraft; it is also identified as a potential key technology for the next generation of aircraft. The ImpNLFFD project is a critical enabler that will, through mature design concept and stress justification, facilitate the manufacture of the starboard Upper Cover ...
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Innovative bifunctional aircraft window for lighting control to enhance passenger comfort (IN-LIGHT)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

"Comfort plays an increasingly important role in the interior design of airplanes. Comfort comprises many aspects including temperature and lighting in the cabin. In this context, the overall objective of the IN-LIGHT project is to contribute to the improvement of the passengers comfort through the development of a new concept of bifunctional aircraft window combining two technologies: Electrochro ...
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Smart Intelligent Aircraft Structures (SARISTU)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

The project proposal concerns the challenges posed by the physical integration of smart intelligentstructural concepts. It addresses aircraft weight and operational cost reductions as well as animprovement in the flight profile specific aerodynamic performance.This concerns material concepts enabling a conformal, controlled distortion of aerodynamicallyimportant surfaces, material concepts enablin ...
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Innovative aircraft ice protection system – sensing and modelling (InAIPS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

The overall aim of this project is a novel approach for increased sensitivity of laminar wings to ice accretion in all flight phase. The CfP topic will address three main objectives therefore:1. Development of a system architecture model for an active ice protection system;2. Development of innovative sensing options to support the active ice protection strategy;3. Overall aircraft model that demo ...
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Icephobic Coatings - Development of test methods (IceCode)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

...nt of suitable ‘bench top’ test methods that will allow accurate measurement of the icephobic nature of a coating, providing an indication of the long term icing performance of the tested surface.GKN intends to achieve this goal by determining the key contributing attributes to icephobicity of a surface and generating a predictive model, where predictions of performance can be derived from results ...
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Ground Based Structural & Systems Demonstrator Phase 3 - Component and sub-system manufacture (GBSSD(3))

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

...the Ground Based Structure and Systems Demonstrator (GBSSD) programme, the problem of how to achieve an aerodynamic surface of sufficient quality to support natural laminar flow has been addressed by GKN. .Phase 2 is being undertaken by GKN and involves the detailed design of the fully integrated LE zone and forms the basis for the further development of the concepts for the GBSSD.Phase 3 will in ...
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NLF Starboard Leading Edge & Top cover design & manufacturing Trials (NLFFD)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

...chieve laminar flow.From experience on existing Clean Sky Smart Fixed Wing Aircraft (SFWA) calls, current LE and Top Cover design and manufacture capability, and thorough investigation into the Call, GKN recognise the very demanding tolerance and hence manufacturing requirements to achieve a successful demonstrator outcome.It is understood that any proposed solutions, for LE or Top Cover design, m ...
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OPtimisation for low Environmental Noise impact AIRcraft (OPENAIR)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Reducing noise from aircraft operations perceived by airport neighbouring communities is a major challenge facing the aircraft manufacturing industry, social society and the air transport business. By adopting a whole aircraft approach based on the latest developments in active / adaptive technologies, flow control techniques and advances in computational aero-acoustics applied to the major causes ...
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Development of a Slat with Integrated Electrical Deicers for Icing Wind Tunnel Tests (SIEDIT)

Start date: Jan 3, 2011, End date: Feb 2, 2013,

...ave been used successfully on horizontal stabilizers on smaller aircraft types, but further work is required in the application to larger platforms and wings.In addition to the CfP scope, GKN would like to offer to integrate its own proven electro-thermal technology alongside the Associates’ electro-thermal and expulsive technologies to enhance the value of the integration activity and form a tech ...
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ON Wing Ice DetectioN and MonitorinG System (ON-WINGS)

Start date: Sep 30, 2009, End date: Dec 29, 2012,

"When an aircraft flies in cold, moist air, especially at low altitudes, ice can form rapidly both on and behind the leading edge of aerofoils and other structures. The growth of the ice disturbs the local airflow and can radically alter the lift of the aerofoil and hence the handling characteristics of the aircraft. This phenomenon has caused a number of fatal accidents and loss of control events ...
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Design & Manufacture of a ground based structural/systems demonstrator (Phase 2) (GBSSD(2))

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2012,

...s also have to be addressed in the design.In Phase 1 of the programme, the problem of how to achieve an aerodynamic surface of sufficient quality to support natural laminar flow has been addressed by GKN. In particular a number of mechanical joint concepts have been evaluated against a very tight set of criteria including steps and gaps, surface finish, aerofoil profile, waviness and fastening te ...
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Development and Manufacture Scoop Intake and Channel incl. ice and debris protection and acoustic absorbers (SIPAL)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2011,

...noise abatement technologies within the same area of scoop structure. A fully integrated, combined solution such as that is not viable within this project under the current budget; However, GKN does view this as an appropriate objective and a potential development area for future projects. By enabling this direct integration GKN expects significant noise reduction benefits. GKN sees potential in t ...
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Ground Based Structural/Systems Demonstrators (GKN GBSSD)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

...developmeent of a number of small scale Feature Demonstrators that will enable down selection of concepts towards a final Integrated Ground Based Demonstrator of the LE region of a Natural Flow Wing. GKN Aerospace, the world's No.1 independent supplier of composite aircraft structures, would welcome the opportunity to collaborate with Airbus, Saab and Aernova in the development of the next ge ...
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