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Cost Effective Small AiRcraft

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Objective

CESAR focuses on small-size commercial aircraft providing manufacturers with an enhanced ability needed to become fully competitive in the world market. The objective is to build up a new development concept for this aircraft category and to improve selected technologies enabling a significant reduction of the time-to-market and lowering the overall development, operation and maintenance costs, while considering safety, passenger comfort and environmental impact.

The project consists of five RTD areas sufficiently covering the complexity of the aircraft design process, namely aerodynamic and structural design, propulsion integration, aircraft system optimisation and design integration aspects. In particular CESAR aims at enhancing aerodynamic and structural design tools and structural evaluation methods. RTD work comprises development, validation and integration of design tools and methodologies to provide suitable environment for virtual aircraft simulation. Enhancement of design processes, knowledge management and collaboration tools is an essential part of the project.

Another important part of the project is technological development for aircraft subparts and systems. The CESAR aspires to provide technologies and knowledge for advanced wing, competitive and environmentally acceptable propulsion unit and new technologies for selected aircraft systems to reduce aircraft operating costs and improve safety. The activities also include the integration of the latest technologies already applied to large commercial aircraft and their modified economical use within the category of small-size commercial aircraft, e.g. cost effective actuation, complex power-plant control system, competitive technologies for air systems, structural health monitoring and on condition maintenance systems.

Validation is carried out on two levels:
a) on the task level (hardware platforms),
b) on the project level (two baseline a/c configurations for assessment and trade offs).

Programme(s)

FP6-AEROSPACE - Aeronautics and Space: thematic priority 4 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Topic(s)

AERO-1.1 - Strengthening competitiveness

Call for proposal

FP6-2005-AERO-1

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Funding Scheme

IP - Integrated Project

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Coordinator

VYZKUMNY A ZKUSEBNI LETECKY USTAV, A.S.

Address

Beranovych 130
Prague - Letnany

Czechia

Website

Administrative Contact

Karel PAIGER (Ing.)

Participants (38)

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AERO VODOCHODY A.S.

Czechia

AIT- AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH

Austria

C.I.R.A. - CENTRO ITALIANO RICERCHE AEROSPAZIALI SCPA

Italy

EADS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH

Germany

EUROCOPTER SAS

France

EVEKTOR SPOL. S R.O.

Czechia

SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY

Sweden

AERNNOVA ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS, S.A.

Spain

HELLENIC AEROSPACE INDUSTRY S.A.

Greece

VR GROUP, A.S.

Czechia

INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARI AEROSPATIALE "ELIE CARAFOLI"

Romania

INSTYTUT LOTNICTWA - INSTITUTE OF AVIATION

Poland

SE "IVCHENKO PROGRESS"

Ukraine

JIHLAVAN, A.S.

Czechia

LIEBHERR AEROSPACE TOULOUSE S.A.S.

France

MATERIALS ENGINEERING RESEARCH LABORATORY LTD

United Kingdom

MESIT PRISTROJE SPOL. S R.O.

Czechia

STICHTING NATIONAAL LUCHT- EN RUIMTEVAARTLABORATORIUM

Netherlands

PRVNI BRNENSKA STROJIRNA VELKA BITES, A.S.

Czechia

PIAGGIO AERO INDUSTRIES S.P.A.

Italy

POLSKIE ZAKLADY LOTNICZE SP. Z O.O.

Poland

SWEREA SICOMP AB

Sweden

SOCATA SAS

France

SPEEL PRAHA, LTD.

Czechia

SVENSKA ROTOR MASKINER AB

Sweden

TECHNOFAN

France

TURBOMECA S.A.

France

UNIS, A.S.

Czechia

THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

United Kingdom

BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Czechia

UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS

Greece

CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN AÉRONAUTIQUE, ASBL

Belgium

DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FÜR LUFT- UND RAUMFAHRT E.V.

Germany

JIHOSTROJ A.S.

Czechia

OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AÉROSPATIALES'

France

RHEINISCH-WESTFÄLISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN (RWTH)

Germany

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT MÜNCHEN

Germany

UNIVERSITÉ DE LIEGE

Belgium

Project information

CESAR

Grant agreement ID: 30888

Start date

1 September 2006
End date

28 February 2010

Funded under:

FP6-AEROSPACE

Overall budget:

€ 33 477 227
EU contribution

€ 18 100 000

Coordinated by:

VYZKUMNY A ZKUSEBNI LETECKY USTAV, A.S.

Czechia

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Small aircraft, big deal

A small-aircraft -focused project succeeded in bringing extensive new knowledge and technical achievements to Europe's general aviation sector. The new development and technologies approaches will boost competitiveness at an international level.

INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES

The 'Cost effective small aircraft' (CESAR) project worked to provide manufacturers of small-size commercial aircraft with the means of becoming fully competitive in the international market. The EU-funded team's objective was to deliver a novel development concept for small aircraft and to improve related technologies. The vision was aimed at reducing time to market and lowering costs for overall development, operation and maintenance. Safety, passenger comfort and environmental impact were also at the top of the list. The project focused on aerodynamic and structural design, propulsion integration, aircraft system optimisation and design integration — areas of research and technology development (RTD) that comprehensively deal with the aircraft design processes. CESAR partners concentrated on enhancing the tools of aerodynamic and structural design as well as the methods used for structural evaluation; all related activities aimed to provide a suitable environment for virtual aircraft simulation. With a view to reducing aircraft operating costs and improving safety, CESAR also focused on advancing knowledge and technological developments for aircraft subparts and systems. Activities also included integrating large commercial aircraft technologies for modified economical use in the category of small-size commercial aircraft. CESAR successfully accomplished its objectives and realised a number of accomplishments related to visibility, publications and patent protection of certain technical results.

Project information

CESAR

Grant agreement ID: 30888

Start date

1 September 2006
End date

28 February 2010

Funded under:

FP6-AEROSPACE

Overall budget:

€ 33 477 227
EU contribution

€ 18 100 000

Coordinated by:

VYZKUMNY A ZKUSEBNI LETECKY USTAV, A.S.

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Final Report Summary - CESAR (Cost Effective Small AiRcraft)

The CESAR project focused on the concept of small-size commercial aircrafts providing manufacturers with an enhanced ability needed to become fully competitive in the world market. The objective was to build up a new development concept for this aircraft category and to improve selected technologies enabling a significant reduction of the time-to-market and lowering the overall development, operation and maintenance costs, while considering safety, passenger comfort and environmental impact. The project consisted of five research technology development (RTD) areas sufficiently covering the complexity of the aircraft design process, namely aerodynamic and structural design, propulsion integration, aircraft system optimisation and design integration aspects.

The project defined clear objectives as follows:
- time to market reduction by two years
- development cost reduction by 20 %
- reduction of manufacturing and assembly costs by 16 %
- propulsion unit efficiency and affordability
- optimisation of selected aircraft systems.

The CESAR project work was successfully accomplished. The project brought technical achievements and extensive new knowledge to the European general aviation (GA) sector. Despite the lack of investments and problematic profitability in the GA sector small aircrafts in CS/FAR 23 regulation category gradually become part of the air transport system, especially in remote areas where the density of land transport network is low. Small aircrafts are also more and more used as a part of personal air transport system, operating nearby urban areas. Special effort was given to the public awareness activities to make CESAR project and GA sector more visible. The communication between CESAR and other EU-funded projects having complementary content was also widely ensured. Training activities in individual tasks were tailored to serve to both CESAR participants and potential external users. The project work and particular achievements are recorded in more than 300 technical reports (deliverables) available for CESAR participants and on request for potential external users. Eight technical results are protected by patents. Other results, which were not so close-to market, have been published in specialized journals and presented at conferences. There were about 50 publications in total. The plan for dissemination of results contains 177 items briefly describing nature of individual results and the way of their exploitation, dissemination or protection.

All relevant information about the project can be found at the project's website: http://www.cesar-project.eu.

Project information

CESAR

Grant agreement ID: 30888

Start date

1 September 2006
End date

28 February 2010

Funded under:

FP6-AEROSPACE

Overall budget:

€ 33 477 227
EU contribution

€ 18 100 000

Coordinated by:

VYZKUMNY A ZKUSEBNI LETECKY USTAV, A.S.

Deliverables

Deliverables not available

Publications

Publications not available

Project information

CESAR

Grant agreement ID: 30888

Start date

1 September 2006
End date

28 February 2010

Funded under:

FP6-AEROSPACE

Overall budget:

€ 33 477 227
EU contribution

€ 18 100 000

Coordinated by:

VYZKUMNY A ZKUSEBNI LETECKY USTAV, A.S.

Project information

CESAR

Grant agreement ID: 30888

Start date

1 September 2006
End date

28 February 2010

Funded under:

FP6-AEROSPACE

Overall budget:

€ 33 477 227
EU contribution

€ 18 100 000

Coordinated by:

VYZKUMNY A ZKUSEBNI LETECKY USTAV, A.S.

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