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    Enabling airworthiness security by a holistic security engineering process at various aircraft design levels
    (International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 2024) ; ;
    Since the publication of the EASA certification specification CS-25.1319 in 2020, cyber security of aircraft and aircraft systems (airworthiness security) became mandatory for aircraft certification and must be considered in the aircraft and aircraft systems development even before the detailed design and implementation. For protection of aircraft from cyberattacks by Intentional Unauthorized Electronic Interaction (IUEI), security risk analyses are now embedded in the early phases of aircraft and aircraft systems development and security information has to be provided to subsequent phases. But this also requires, that processes and methods employed at the detailed design and implementation level are compatible to the processes and methods from the level above. For this reason, regulations and corresponding standards are analyzed in this paper to define requirements for a comprehensive and holistic security engineering approach that ensures traceability and consistency along the various development levels in the context of model-based systems, software, and security engineering.
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    A design approach for a model-scale VTOL powered by two pivoting kerosine turbines
    (International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 2024) ;
    At the Institute of Air Transportation Systems, an innovative vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) model is being developed as a test vehicle to stimulate future research on combined highly automated flying and ground systems. The aircraft, primarily powered by two pivoting kerosene turbines, will serve as a multi-role transport aircraft for different mission scenarios, resulting in different payloads. Intended missions include surveillance in disaster scenario, ground and airborne vehicle jettison during landing or in-flight, and flight algorithm testing. The research question is how the design can be achieved and what design methodologies are appropriate. This paper describes the design methodology for the aircraft design process according to the given requirements and presents two of the main aircraft concepts under consideration. It also details the key steps in the process, such as iterating and alternating designs. The aim of the paper is to provide a design methodology that motivates disruptive variation for more efficient design evolution.
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    ESATTO : the holistic framework to support the design of sustainable supersonic aviation
    (International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 2024) ;
    Piccirillo, Grazia
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    Saccone, Guido
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    The request for faster and greener civil aviation is urging the worldwide scientific community and aerospace industry to develop a new generation of supersonic aircraft, which are expected to be environmentally sustainable and to guarantee a high-level protection of citizens. To pursue this purpose, MORE&LESS (MDO and REgulations for Low boom and Environmentally Sustainable Supersonic aviation), answering the EC call “Towards global environmental regulation of supersonic aviation” (LC-MG-1-15-2020), aims to support Europe in shaping global environmental regulations for future supersonic aviation. Specifically, the project aims to provide the Scientific Community with an integrated multi-disciplinary framework consisting of validated and accepted tools to holistically assess the environmental impact of supersonic airplanes on the future global air navigation system. This paper aims to describe the overall architecture of the ESATTO Framework, providing the readers with details on the development status of the different constituent modules and the planned ideas for its exploitation.
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    Establishing the DLR-F25 as a research baseline aircraft for the schort-medium range market in 2035
    (International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 2024-09) ;
    Häßy, Jannik
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    Investigating the impact of disruptive aircraft technologies and liquid hydrogen along with the associated propulsion and system architectures for the next generation of aircraft leads to the need to compare and benchmark innovative aircraft concepts with a meaningful conventional aircraft configuration. In order to establish such a configuration with a corresponding technology scenario in 2035 for research programs such as the German Luftfahrtforschungsprogramm (LuFo), the Clean Aviation Program and Horizon Europe, the LuFo project VirEnfREI is developing a research baseline configuration for the short-to-medium range segment.
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    Towards a holistic approach to increase sustainability in aircraft cabin design
    The aviation industry is facing the challenge of increasing sustainability requirements and targets. The cabin offers the opportunity to introduce short-term and medium-term sustainability improvements in existing aircraft fleets. In order to holistically address sustainability in the aircraft cabin, the three sustainability strategies of efficiency, consistency and sufficiency are considered in this article and addressed at both product architecture and component level. At the product architecture level, it is shown that modularization has great potential to improve sustainability along the entire product life cycle, but that there is a lack of methods for modularization strategies that contribute to the development of sustainable products. Therefore, it is shown which sustainability criteria and indicators can be addressed at the different levels of a product architecture. At the component level, there is a lack of comparisons of alternative lightweight materials and design alternatives with conventional designs and materials in terms of sustainability. Therefore, it is shown how the design of lightweight methods of construction can be combined with LCA by the example of conventional and bio-based flax sandwich structures when used in an aircraft cabin. The studies show the importance of a requirements-oriented design in terms of sustainability.
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    MRO for VTOLS in a functional sequences solution space
    (International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 2024) ; ;
    Ziegler, Marco
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    Mishra, Aadi Nath
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    A crucial aspect of emission reduction in urban environments is the development of electrically (or hydrogen) powered vertical take-off and landing vehicles (eVTOLs) and the corresponding infrastructure planning. To ensure the continuous use of these vehicles for urban passenger transport, proactive maintenance methods, plans, and intervals must be established for so-called Vertistops, Ports, and Hubs. In addition to the maintenance schedule, safety restrictions, risk levels, failure modes, and failure hazard analyses must be conducted for taxiing, the maintenance process, and energy management to assess potential safety risks and ensure accident-free operation. This paper provides a literary overview of the current research on maintenance mea-sures and methods. It addresses the maintenance schedule via checklists and presents a revised functional overview for maintaining eVTOLs. Our approach transfers the conventional maintenance planning of airplanes and helicopters using checklists into Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) diagrams, extended with attributes for the temporal and spatial design of Vertiports. The expansion of the solution space also includes the classification and generation of synthetic damage data for eVTOLs, which is intended to serve as a suggestion for further work in this area. Finally, we conducted a comprehensive safety analysis for the scenario of pre-flight maintenance using an inspection drone, which, in addition to purely visual inspection (e.g., through Smart-Hangar approaches), constitutes part of our solution space."
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    Mitigating the climate impact of aviation by operational means - a comparative study for different weather situations
    (International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 2024) ; ; ;
    Aviation’s climate impact in terms of non-CO2 effects can be mitigated by operational trajectory adjustments. However, their effectiveness and efficiency varies significantly for different routes as well as meteorological conditions. Therefore, this study aims for a comparable assessment of different trajectory adaptation approaches under different weather conditions. For this purpose, detailed trajectory calculations are combined with climate sensitivity grids based on algorithmic climate change functions in order to assess variations in climate mitigation potentials. Significant mitigation potentials for vertical, lateral and temporal adaptation approaches are demonstrated and varying mitigation potentials in dependence of the meteorological situation are identified. For instance, higher mitigation potentials can be observed in December compared to June and for missions of higher contrail intensity.
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    Mutual position plausibility checking in flying ad-hoc networks using distance measurements
    (International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 2024) ;
    In this paper we present an approach to check the plausibility of UAV positions based on independent distance estimations between the nodes in a flying ad-hoc network (FANET) built up by the UAVs. To achieve this, we define a set of data messages that are flooded throughout the network by each node and that are used to derive a situational overview if received at a particular UAV. Based on the received data, distances between the nodes within the FANET can be estimated both from GNSS position readings as well as from time of flight information additionally provided in the data messages. The difference of both values can be used as an indicator to thereby classify edges and nodes of the FANET as plausible or implausible. In our work, we derive appropriate thresholds for the deviation of both measurements as well as a trust score for each node based on the plausibility values of adjacent edges. To showcase our approach, we apply it to an air traffic scenario based on drone package delivery in urban environments and simulate the data traffic in the resulting FANET resulting from the data messages we defined. We show, that our approach yields reasonable results for the evaluated scenario.
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    Design of a UAM ground infrastructure network with respect to maintenance capacity requirements
    (International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 2024) ; ; ;
    Before a successful introduction of Urban Air Mobility can be achieved, numerous challenges must be ad-dressed, one of which is the development of efficient traffic networks with all associated components. Previous studies have already examined UAM networks in terms of fleet capacity requirements, energy supply, and parking positions. The aim of this study is the further development of these methods to analyze the necessary capacity of maintenance infrastructure for an eVTOL fleet. Another aspect of this work is to investigate the im-pact of the centralization degree of a maintenance facility network. While centralized networks have potential to reduce redundancies, decentralized networks may help to reduce detours caused by empty relocation flights to maintenance facilities. Therefore, necessary maintenance intervals are first investigated. Based on these insights, maintenance processes are then planned for an exemplary fleet operating in the City of Hamburg (Germany). Finally, the overall demand for maintenance services is quantified at the network level and the potential benefits of a decentralized maintenance facility network are evaluated with regard to the reduction of empty flights.
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    Building methods for a composite constructed VTOL using 3D printing techniques
    (International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 2024) ;
    Generally, prototyping goes hand in hand with additive manufacturing technologies. Especially in the construction of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), these rapid prototyping methods are a key to quickly obtaining a functional prototype. The Institute of Air Transportation Systems is working on an innovative vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) model in the 25 kg weight class. The main airframe is intended to be built from composite materials in combination with each other and/or with the help of 3D printing materials. This article details the construction methods for the structure of the proposed aircraft. A main focus lies on the implementation of 3D printing methods, mainly via Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) and different types of plastic as printing material, to derive different construction methods, including composite hybrid structures, for the respective structural components. In addition, issues on structural design, load tests and final results of the efforts are presented. This paper is intended to be a guide for other developers/researchers, who start prototyping their own serious aircraft builds, without being dependent on conventional machinery.
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