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.
Communication
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Who we are
27 June 2025