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Flightworthy Flush Lightweight doors for unpressurized Fast Rotorcraft

Objective

In the JTI Clean Sky 2, the Fast Rotorcraft Project (FRC) aims at demonstrating that the compound rotorcraft configuration opens up to new mobility roles that neither conventional helicopters nor fixed wing aircraft can currently cover. These advanced rotorcraft concepts aim at high cruise speed, low fuel consumption and further benefits for operators as well as the society. The 4 doors will be developed in order to provide flightworthy flush & lightweight doors for an unpressurized Fast Rotorcraft demonstrator. The applicants are proposing latest state-of-the-art FRP composite technologies & design methods as well as support the topic manager up to test & certification documentation as well as a flight test survey.
The major challenges include the development of a preliminary concept from concepts up to flightworthy demonstrators at TRL6 for all four types of FRC doors.

Pivotal questions relate to material selection, production methods as well as quality assurance in the context of innovation & sustainability in the aeronautical branche.

Coordinator

LKR LEICHTMETALL KOMPETENZZENTRUM RANSHOFEN GMBH
Net EU contribution
€ 111 667,50
Address
Lamprechtshausenerstrasse
5282 Ranshofen
Austria

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Region
Westösterreich Oberösterreich Innviertel
Activity type
Research Organisations
Other funding
€ 70 202,50

Participants (1)

CI COMPOSITE IMPULSE GMBH & CO
Germany
Net EU contribution
€ 885 819,75
Address
Kalthofs Park 10
58285 Gevelsberg

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SME

The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.

Yes
Region
Nordrhein-Westfalen Arnsberg Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis
Activity type
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
Other funding
€ 379 637,03