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THE NEW ION AGE UK JOINS the COMMERCIAL ELECTRIC SATELLITE CLUB Royal a Eronautical Society Don’T Forget to Renew Your Membership Subscription for 2019 AE January 2019 ROSPACE LION AIR CRASH IMPLICATIONS FORMULA ONE TO AEROSPACE DISRUPTING THE MILITARY TRAINER www.aerosociety.com MARKET January 2019 V olume 46 Number 1 THE NEW ION AGE UK JOINS THE COMMERCIAL ELECTRIC SATELLITE CLUB Royal A eronautical Society Don’t forget to renew your Membership Subscription for 2019 Your membership subscription is due on 1 January 2019 and any unpaid memberships will lapse on 31 March 2019. As per the Society’s Regulations, all How to renew: memberships will be suspended where a payment for an individual subscription has Online: Log in to your account on the Society’s not been received after three months of the website to pay at: due date. This excludes members paying their www.aerosociety.com/login annual subscriptions by Direct Debits in monthly instalments. 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Contents Correspondence on all aerospace matters is welcome at: The Editor, AEROSPACE, No.4 Hamilton Place, London W1J 7BQ, UK [email protected] Comment Regulars 4 Radome 12 Transmission The latest aviation and Your letters, emails, tweets aeronautical intelligence, and feedback. analysis and comment. 58 The Last Word 10 Antenna Keith Hayward looks at the Quantum leap Howard Wheeldon focuses potential possibilities of a on recent changes at closer alliance between Canadian aerospace Middle-East carriers manufacturer, Bombardier. Emirates and Etihad. Is the UK’s exit from the Galileo satellite navigation system a case of a glass half full or half empty? Certainly one can bemoan the £1.2bn sunk costs and future contracts lost by pulling out of a key navigation system that the Features UK helped build and finance – ironically just at the point when it becomes INSRA Airbus operational. However, for some in the UK’s space industry, the chance to develop a GNSS system from scratch, may be a case of a glass half full. The UK space industry has seen its capabilities stretch from satellites, to ion engines, to human spaceflight training, rovers and, soon, launchers and spaceports. What better way to unleash this potential than with a UK GNSS 26 system? How the UK would fund such a prestige space project is unclear. but there might be a wider opportunity here for the UK to forge ahead with 18 The digital age takes the next revolution in navigation – quantum compasses. With a blank slate to Lion Air lessons flight create a precision navigation system from scratch – could the UK spearhead David Learmount looks at How digital data is being this technology ahead of the rest of the world? This course of action, to the safety lessons to be used across the aerospace learned from the recent Lion industry as an analytical and leapfrog GNSS and go directly to quantum compass technology, brings its Air 737 MAX 8 crash. predictive tool. own risks and is also likely to be expensive. However, the alternative may be 34 On the lighter side to spend millions developing a bespoke UK satnav system, only to find that Williams Advaned Engineering Advaned Williams A report on the latest aircraft when it enters service in 10-15 years, the rest of the world may have moved developments from the on to quantum compasses and GPS/GNSS has become a niche system RAeS Light Aircraft Design conference. like LORAL. There are no easy answers here – especially for the UK with its strained public finances. However, these two options do offer exciting UAC opportunities. Having (as some might argue) leapt into the dark with Brexit, is the UK willing to take a leap of faith in quantum? 22 Tim Robinson, Editor-in-Chief Williams tell 38 [email protected] How Formula One teams are helping to advance innovation in aerospace. Widebody challenger NEWS IN BRIEF Russia and China prepare to challenge Boeing and Airbus Editor-in-Chief Editorial Office Printed by Buxton Press Limited, with the new CR-929 wide- Tim Robinson Royal Aeronautical Society Palace Road, Buxton, Derbyshire body civil aircraft. +44 (0)20 7670 4353 No.4 Hamilton Place SK17 6AE, UK [email protected] London W1J 7BQ, UK Distributed by Royal Mail Deputy Editor +44 (0)20 7670 4300 [email protected] 2019 AEROSPACE subscription 41 Afterburner Bill Read rates: Non-members, £170 +44 (0)20 7670 4351 www.aerosociety.com [email protected] AEROSPACE is published by the Royal Please send your order to: Chris Male, RAeS, No.4 Hamilton Place, 42 Message from our President Publications Manager Aeronautical Society (RAeS). 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Postmaster: Send address changes A renaissance in GA design, Digital data – to IMS of New York, PO Box 1518, 50 Cambridge Branch lecture benefits, Digital data – threats, Electric thrusters Reproduction of material used in this Champlain NY 12919-1518, USA. for satellites, 30 years of hurt – is UK combat publication is not permitted without the 52 Diary written consent of the Editor-in-Chief. aircraft design coming home?, Williams racing ISSN 2052-451X 55 Corporate Partner Events cars aerospace applications 56 Elections Front cover: Air-breathing electric thruster. (ESA) @aerosociety i Find us on LinkedIn f Find us on Facebook www.aerosociety.com JANUARY 2019 13 Radome INTELLIGENCE / ANALYSIS / COMMENT First sustained flight Utilising an ‘ionic wind’ for in-atmosphere flight has been considered since at least the 1960s, with noted aircraft designer Alexander de Seversky coining the term ‘Ionocraft’. Small model VTOL ‘lifters’ and a tethered model have been flown before, with MIT being first to achieve untethered, sustained flight. Glider launch Launched using a bungee cord, the MIT ‘ion craft’ was flown indoors in a MIT sports hall. It travelled 60m in each flight, with the team flying ten times to repeat the sustained flight. Power storage Lithium-polymer batteries in the nose provide 40,000volts to charge the electrodes via power converter. Specifications Wingspan 5m Weight 2.45kg Speed 4.8m per second 4 AEROSPACE / JANUARY 2019 W AEROSPACE MIT flies ‘ion drive’ aircraft A team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has achieved sustained flight using an electric ‘ion drive’ for the first time. The 10-second indoor flight, using a 5m wingspan subscale demonstrator, uses highly charged (20,000v) electrodes to charge air particles and create an ‘ionic wind’ which provides forward thrust to the aircraft. As well as featuring no moving parts, the propulsion system is silent. While researchers say that passenger aircraft using this propulsion may be decades away, in the nearer term there could be applications for almost silent UAVs. The ionic wind drive could also be paired with hybrid propulsion systems to increase efficiency, according to the researchers. Ion drive Thrust is provided by harnessing electrical electrohydrodynamic (EHD) properties. Two sets of wire electrodes (blue and white in image) are positively and negatively charged, with ionised nitrogen air molecules being accelerated rearwards to collide with neutral molecules to provide forward thrust. The drive, which produces five Newtons for each kilowatt of power, uses no moving parts. MIT @aerosociety i Find us on LinkedIn f Find us on Facebook www.aerosociety.com JANUARY 2019 5 Radome AIR TRANSPORT AEROSPACE Flybe up for sale UK unveils aviation sector deal On 14 November, UK since September. regional airline Flybe A week later, Virgin announced it was Atlantic was revealed putting itself up to be in talks as a B for sale, weeks o potential buyer m b a after issuing a r for Flybe, amid d GKN Aerospace i e profit warning.
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