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Asteris Apostolidis, Stijn Donckers, Dave Peijnenburg and Konstantinos P. Stamoulis
This study focuses on the feasibility of electric aircraft operations between the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao. It explores the technical characteristics of two different future electric aircraft types (i.e., Alice and ES-19) and comp...
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Karim Abu Salem, Giuseppe Palaia and Alessandro Antonio Quarta
The combination of new airframes with electric and hybrid-electric propulsion is a potential solution to decarbonize aviation. In this context, recent studies have proven that the box-wing airframe, if integrated on a hybrid-electric aircraft belonging t...
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Yingli Liu, Minghua Hu, Jianan Yin, Jiaming Su, Shuce Wang and Zheng Zhao
In view of the common U-shaped apron structure of large- and medium-sized airports at home and abroad, this study considered the optimization design and performance evaluation of the U-shaped apron operation procedure. First, by analyzing the physical st...
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Marc Christopher Gelhausen, Wolfgang Grimme, Alf Junior, Christos Lois and Peter Berster
The authors have adjusted the DLR forecast model to evaluate the environmental benefits in terms of CO2 and NOx emissions of Clean Sky 2 technology innovations. The paper briefly describes the model employed: it consists of a passenger/flight volume fore...
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Pierluigi Della Vecchia, Massimo Mandorino, Vincenzo Cusati and Fabrizio Nicolosi
Aircraft retrofitting is a challenging task involving multiple scenarios and stakeholders. Providing a strategy to retrofit an existing platform needs detailed knowledge of multiple aspects, ranging from aircraft performance and emissions, development an...
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Zarah Lea Zengerling, Florian Linke, Christian Martin Weder and Katrin Dahlmann
Saving fuel by splitting a flight mission with an intermediate stop for refuelling is described by the concept of intermediate stop operations. This can also be beneficial to the climate impact of aviation, if the flight level and intermediate stop airpo...
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Umberto Iemma and Francesco Centracchio
The paper deals with a community-oriented approach to the multiobjective optimisation of sustainable takeoff and landing procedures of commercial aircraft. The objective functions to be minimised are defined as the measure of area surrounding the airport...
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Lucas Sznajderman, Gabriel Ramírez-Díaz and Carlos A. Di Bernardi
The purpose of this study is to analyze the concept of a hybrid apron with a fixed number of parking positions considering the management model influence for the average delay per aircraft and the gaseous emissions generated by aircraft and ground suppor...
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Laurent Tabernier, Esther Calvo Fernández, Andreas Tautz, Robin Deransy and Peter Martin
The majority of emissions from aviation come from the combustion of the fuel required to operate each flight. Keeping the fuel consumption required for a safe flight to the absolute minimum is therefore the simplest and most effective way to ensure that ...
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Karim Abu Salem, Vittorio Cipolla, Giuseppe Palaia, Vincenzo Binante and Davide Zanetti
The introduction of disruptive innovations in the transport aviation sector is becoming increasingly necessary. This is because there are many very demanding challenges that the transport aviation system will have to face in the years ahead. In particula...
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