Progress Eagle- Quantum Airplane the future of flight

“Progress Eagle” is based in the technology beyond 2030 with ideas from Quantum Mechanics, if we consider the evolution of current technology and future progress in uses of theoretical physics solutions. Today we can find these technologies in the most advanced laboratories around the world (Universities, Private companies, Government installations,...) and in the theories of the best Scientifics. For these reasons, the innovations that the “Progress Eagle” presents could be available in fifteen years’ time. The most relevant aspects about this “Super Jet” would have a closer relation with Quantum Mechanics, we can simplify the airplane concept like a “Mega” energy’s particle with special specifications more orthodox than we can found in today’s physics.  

Self-sufficient in energy in a very large value, with zero contaminant emissions and at the same time an advanced tool to “clear” the atmosphere capturing non wishes particles that altered the good balance of our ecosystem, like the excess of CO2. With innovative shapes and sizes (tested with CFD software in order to know its feasibility), three passenger’s decks and a special cockpit located on the second floor with panoramic views that allow the pilots to have a direct reference’s views up to 70% of the airplane. Equipped with Smart & Self –repairing skin’s wings, composed by carbon nanotube & carbon fibers, meta-materials in hexagonal pattern on the surface and a hollow exoskeleton in an ultra-lightweight beehive-shaped of titanium and graphene; using the graphene material like a micro-super capacitors (fast electrical storage that can charge and discharge a hundred to a thousand times faster than standard batteries) and as a reinforce of inside’s wing structure. 

Triple Winglets, an evolution of the double winglets that some airliners are using now, with the current blended winglet on top side and the ventral strake. The winglets of the “Progress Eagle” could be composed with two winglets on top (between conventional blended and elliptical winglet), everyone with a different angle and orientation  and one ventral; reducing substantially the drag and increasing the sustentation (more lift with less thrust), following tests carried out by  computational fluid dynamics software (CFD). The geometry of the wings is similar to a   double arrow structure, and the section that joins the central fuselage’s part with the wings, has a special design to redirect the “front” air flow and profit it to generate electrical energy with a Nano-Kinetic System (Nanowires),  and to “feed” the rear Wind Generator, the CO2 system cleaner and the Hydrogen system generator

Make-in-India: Can india realise its own 5th-generation fighter aircraft

India plans to kick-off its own fifth-generation fighter aircraft (FGFA) development project this year to build on the expertise gained in the long developmental saga of the indigenous Tejas light combat aircraft.

Top defence sources said the preliminary design stage of the futuristic fighter called the advanced medium combat aircraft (AMCA), with collaboration among IAF, DRDO and Aeronautical Development Agency, is now "virtually" over.

"Once the project definition and feasibility is completed in the next few months, the defence ministry will go to the cabinet committee on security for approval. It will require Rs 4,000-5,000 crore for the initial design and development phase," said a source.

The aim is to fly the first twin-engine AMCA prototype by 2023-2024, which will be around the time deliveries of Tejas Mark-II fighters will be underway. IAF is slated to get its first Tejas Mark-I . Tejas Mark-II jets, with more powerful engines, will start to come only by 2021-2022.
"After Tejas Mark-II, we have to move ahead to a fifth-generation-plus AMCA. Basic design work of AMCA as well as presentations by five to six global aero-engine manufacturers is over. Simulation modelling is also in the works," said the source.

India, of course, is also trying to sort out its differences with Russia over their proposed joint development of the Indian "perspective multi-role fighter" based on the latter's under-development FGFA called Sukhoi T-50 or PAK-FA

Iconic A5 aircraft successfully tests for FAA clearence

 ICON Aircraft is a consumer sport plane manufacturer founded in response to the sport flying category created by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in 2004. ICON’s first plane is the A5, an amphibious sport aircraft that fuses outstanding aeronautical engineering with world-class product design. It has won some of the world’s most prestigious design awards and has inspired a global following..

 

Structural testing of the ICON A5’s airframe is one of the final steps toward FAA approval and the culmination of years of design, engineering, and testing. Following months of preparation, these tests successfully confirmed that the A5’s airframe can sustain G-force loads well beyond those encountered within the normal flight envelope.

The A5 is supported in a fixture while the aft fuselage/tailboom and horizontal tail structures are being stress tested.

Research, design, and validation of new aircraft structures requires a variety of tests, and one of the last milestones on our way to FAA approval is airframe static-load testing. During static testing, the measured strength of the structure is compared to simulations and design specifications to validate a safe design. Ultimate static strength tests play a critical role in ensuring a structure like the A5 wing can withstand extreme loads caused by nature, such as wind shear or other large transient forces. Although these tests are an essential part of the testing phase, it is rare that a structure ever encounters stresses of this magnitude in the real world.

 The tests require strict adherence to the standards established by ASTM International, using detailed data acquisition and analysis models to evaluate how the A5’s carbon fiber structure responds to simulated flight loads. Based on those standards, weight was applied to the wings and horizontal tail of ESN-2 (Engineering Serial Number 2) while it was held in upright and inverted positions. The exercise simulated up to 4 Gs (limit load, the maximum the aircraft will experience during flight), and 6 Gs (ultimate load, which is 150% of limit load). The ultimate-load test involved applying enough weight to deflect the wingtips more than 18 inches.

ICON’s tests also confirmed that the A5’s flaps, aileron, and control linkages are able to operate freely with a full range of motion, ensuring there is no binding or jamming so the pilot can maintain full and safe control of the aircraft under high G loads.

The data produced by the testing successfully validated the A5’s structural integrity and will be used as reference materials in the FAA audit that confirms the A5’s airworthiness and clears it for serial production.The company has received more than 1,800 order deposits and was delivered the first production aircraft i

LCA-TEJAS MARK-II TO BE INDUCTED IN IAF FLEET

 The IAF wants the existing Tejas to have Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar, new electronic warfare suite and an array of beyond visual range missiles; all the features that were planned to be part of Tejas Mk II, A fresh agreement, setting the LCA programme on a new course, was signed on September 23 by all the stakeholders, including Indian Air Force, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, AeronauticalThe IAF wants the existing Tejas to have Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar, new electronic warfare suite and an array of beyond visual range missiles.

The Indian Air Force will now induct 120 home-grown LCA instead of the 40 planned earlier.But an order jump, based on a complete rethink on the enormously delayed programme, rides on expectation that the current version of Tejas in the making, which lacks key features of a fourth generation fighter jet, will be packed with a power punch to overcome its outdatedness.Sources said the F-414 engines, which were to be used in Tejas Mk II replacing F404, can be used for the naval variant of Tejas which anyway requires a bigger power plant for carrier operations.

Having settled the problem of potency of the aircraft, the delivery continues to remain a major challenge.

HAL at the moment can produce only ght aircraft in a year. To fulfil IAF's new order it will have to double its capacity which will require herculean effort.

 The IAF hopes to have its maiden Tejas squadron with four aircraft by March 2016 while gradually incorporating the improvements.With a limited endurance and range of only 300 km, Tejas was conceived for operations only on the western border. But the whole orientation changed after 2009 when capacity building for a two front war scenario started.Officials hope that with the proposed additions, the existing version will be comparable to one of the best fighters in the world in its category.

The government feels that instead of concentrating on Tejas Mk II, all the energies for design and development could be focused on the indigenous fifth generation fighter Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA). It has been proposed that a foreign consultant is hired on the AMCA project right from the beginning to avoid glitches later in the development programme. The feasibility report on AMCA is going to be finalised soon, said sources.

The Next Big Thing : Blended Wing Aircraft

Next up is a slightly more long-term prospect for cutting fuel use. Blended wing concepts have gained a lot of attention over the years, from the SAX 40 Silent Aircraft Initiative, which claims efficiency improvements of 35% while also reducing noise significantly. Meanwhile NASA and Boeing have flown some test flights with a remote piloted X-48B blended wing, closely resembles a flying wing though it differs in having its wing blend into a flat, tailless fuselage. This allows the aircraft to gain additional left with less drag — which leads to reduced fuel usage at ideal cruise conditions.which achieved fuel efficiency reductions of around 27%. But even when we do finally see commercially viable blended wings gracing our skies, they are not without their own drawbacks - in particular, critics have raised concerns about passenger comfort when banking if seated out on the extremities of the 'wing'

Ten Greatest Aviation Innovations in the World

1.  Cabin pressurization — The average passenger doesn’t think about cabin pressurization until their yellow safety masks fall from the ceiling, but the reality is that if the technology hadn’t been developed during WWII, we wouldn’t be able to fly much above 10,000 feet.

2. Black Box — The black box was invented in the mid-1950s, and not only helps investigators learn why a plane crashed, but how that information can be applied to other aircraft to prevent a repeat.

3. The Concorde — It never delivered on its commercial promise, and it was an environmental bad boy, but who can deny that breaking the sound barrier aboard a commercial aircraft is cool. And have you ever seen a more beautiful plane?

4. Radar — Sure, the airlines are dying to replace it with GPS technology, but for decades it’s been radar that helps air traffic controllers locate and track planes up to 200 miles away. Would our modern air traffic infrastructure exist without it? Probably not.

5. The jumbo jet — Whether you think they’re graceful or ungainly, you can’t deny that jumbo jets have changed the face of commercial aviation. The economies of scale provided by a 400-seat airliner meant airlines could offer cheap tickets that made it possible for the masses to fly.

6. The hub and spoke system — People hate, hate, hate having to make stopovers at jam packed airports controlled by a single airline. Yeah, they’re expensive to fly into and delay prone, but hub airports are a big part of the reason that you have 20 flights a day to choose from when flying between most large American cities.

7. The Very Light Jet (VLJ) — It’s been a tough road for the VLJ, with manufacturers suffering production problems and customers going out of business, but that doesn’t diminish the allure of a 37 foot, 3,500 pound plane designed to carry four to six passengers on short hops that would otherwise require a car ride.

8. Winglets — Here’s another one that most of us don’t think about. The small upward-pointing extensions at the tips of aircraft wings reduce drag, improve climb performance, increase range, and make flight more fuel efficient. With oil at over $100 a barrel, no wonder most airlines have added winglets across their fleets.

9. The flying wing — Yves Rossy keeps breaking records and defying expectations with his 8-foot-diameter, carbon composite flying wing. Last week he made a successful 13 minute, 125 mph trip across the English Channel.

10. Stealth aircraft — What’s cooler than a plane that can outsmart radar? Because the surfaces of a stealth are designed to absorb radio waves or reflect them away from the receiver, stealth planes can sneak in and sneak out undetected. 

Development of Unmanned Carrier Aircraft by US Navy

                                        

                                  

                                        

The US Navy is developing designs to compete for the Unmanned Carrier Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS) Air Vehicle.The preliminary design review assessment is to support 

UCLASS, a system “to enhance aircraft carrier/air wing operations by providing a responsive, world-wide presence via an organic, sea-based unmanned aerial system, with persistent intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting, and strike capabilities

UCLASS is to be an operational, jet-powered aircraft, able to carry out persistent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions and engage in strike missions at ranges up to 2,000 nautical miles.

The basic technology for a carrier-based, unmanned jet aircraft has been proven by Northrop Grumman’s X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstration (UCAS-D) program, which produced two test aircraft. The first carrier launch of the aircraft took place May 14, and the first landings were performed on July 10, successfully completing the test program requirements.

With the UCAS-D test program complete, Navy officials, had declared their intention to dispose of the two X-47Bs next year, probably to museums. However, on Aug. 13 NAVAIR officials modified that plan and announced the aircraft would continue to be used in testing programs.

Navy aviation officials are planning for the UCLASS to become operational with the fleet by 2020.