Скачать или смотреть REsearch on a CRuiser Enabled Air Transport Environment (RECREATE)

This research is all about the introduction and airworthiness of cruiser-feeder operations for civil aircraft. Cruiser-feeder operations are investigated as a promising pioneering idea for the air transport of the future. The movie shows an artist impression. The soundness of the concept of cruiser-feeder operations for civil aircraft is easy to understand, taking air-to-air refuelling operations as an example.

For air-to-air refuelling, a comprehensive estimate of fuel burn reduction potential and a CO2 emission reduction is 31% for a typical 6000 nautical miles flight with a payload of 250 passengers. This reduction potential is known to be large by any standard.

The top level objective of the RECREATE project is to demonstrate on a preliminary design level that cruiser-feeder operations (as a concept to reduce fuel burn and CO2 emission levels) can be shown to comply with the airworthiness requirements for civil aircraft.

Further, airworthy operational concepts for cruiser-feeder operations are determined and studied in the RECREATE project. The benefits in terms of CO2 emission reduction are derived and quantified. This is conducted in three integrating work packages, which are underpinned by research conducted in three disciplinary work packages.

A conceptual and preliminary design study of cruiser and feeder aircraft required will be made, as well as automatic flight control concepts necessary to reduce the workload of the pilots and concepts to transfer passengers, supplies and waste. Finally, flight simulations will be conducted to investigate the cruiser-feeder operations concept.

The 42 month RECREATE projected is co-ordinated by NLR. It is funded by the European Union through the Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013 under grant agreement n° 284741, and by the beneficiaries:

Nationaal Lucht- en Ruimtevaartlaboratorium (The Netherlands),
Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft - Und Raumfahrt (Germany),
Totalforsvarets Forskningsinstitut (Sweden),
Technische Universitaet Muenchen (Germany),
Technische Universiteit Delft (The Netherlands),
The Queen's University of Belfast (United Kingdom),
Zurcher Hochschule fur Angewandte Wissenschaften (Switzerland),
Dr Rajendar Kumar Nangia (United Kingdom),
Nuclear Research and consultancy Group (The Netherlands).

For more info visit http://www.cruiser-feeder.eu