Towards flying testbeds
for novel long-range aircraft

Developing radically-changed aircraft concepts comes with high investments and risks. The objective of EXAELIA is to evaluate flying testbeds that are needed for de-risking the development of those disruptive future long-range aircraft.

EXaelia: experimental Aircraft 
for European Leadership In Aviation

Need

Address the need for more radical changes in long-range aircraft configurations and propulsion concepts to drastically cut carbon emissions of long-range flights and to accelerate the potential entry-into-service of such aircraft to before 2050.

Vision

Accelerate the reduction of aviation emissions and its climate and environmental impacts.
Evaluate novel flying testbeds which are needed for de-risking the development of future long-range aircraft.

impacts

Reduce carbon emissions of long-range aircraft by 50-100% with respect to 2020 aircraft.
Maintain European industrial leadership in commercial aviation.

concept

EXAELIA overall methodology is to develop 4 pillars of knowledge, each of them being used to de-risk and develop the critical technologies required for future FTBs.

Flying testbed families

Three families are developed , de-risking the development of FLRA with EIS 2045-2050, each addressing one of the breakthrough LR BWB FTB family, LR H₂ TAW FTB family, LR propulsion FTB family.

team-partners

Consortium

Team of Partners

com-kit

Communication

Com’Kit and Press release

Newsroom

NLR – Netherlands Aerospace Centre

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