AFLoNext is a four-year EC Level 2 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 of forty European partners from fifteen countries. The work has been broken down into seven work packages. The AFLoNext concept is based on six Technology Streams which cluster the targeted technologies and their associated contributions to advanced aircraft performance as follows:
AFLoNext aims to prove the engineering feasibility of the HLFC technology for drag reduction on fin in flight test and on wing by means of large scale testing. The project shows also engineering feasibility for vibrations mitigation technologies for reduced aircraft weight and noise mitigation technologies.
The peculiarity of the AFLoNext proposal in terms of holistic technical approach and efficient use of resources becomes obvious through the joint use of a flight test aircraft as common test platform for the above mentioned technologies.
To improve aircraft performance along the whole flight regime, locally applied active flow control technologies on wing and wing/pylon junction are qualified in wind tunnels or by means of lab-type demonstrators.
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AFLONEXT |
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Title of the Project |
“2nd Generation Active Wing”- Active Flow_Loads & Noise control on next generation wing |
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Grant Agreement Number |
604013 |
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Project type |
FP7 Collaborative Project – Large Scale (L2) |
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Starting date / End date |
1st June 2013 |
31th May 2017 |
Duration |
48 months |
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Total Budget / Total Manpower |
37 066 858.00 € |
2 449 Person-months |
Maximum Community Financial Contribution |
23 612 079.00 € |
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Project Officer |
Dr. Dietrich Knoerzer |
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Project Coordinator |
Martin Wahlich (AIRBUS-D) |