Facility Technologies for Small Aircraft
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The air traffic of the future urgently requires more environmentally friendly and climate-friendly technologies that enable emission-free and noise-reduced flying.
Facility
Technologies for Small Aircraft
The Technologies for Small Aircraft (KF) facility operates the Innovation Center for Small Aircraft Technologies (INK) for research into electric and hybrid-electric flight.
We provide the research environment of the Innovation Center for Small Aircraft Technologies and support the researchers with regard to technology transfer and networking with partners from science, research, SMEs and industry.
We are located in Würselen (city region Aachen) and intend to establish ourselves at the research airfield nearby (Forschungsflugplatz Würselen-Aachen) in the future.
Innovation Center for Small Aircraft Technologies
The Innovation Center for Small Aircraft Technologies is dedicated to the topics of electric flight and (inter-)urban mobility with a view to small aircraft against the backdrop of the Rhineland region's vision as the so-called mobility district of the future.
Scientific issues are addressed in particular in the areas of general aviation and (inter)urban air traffic (advanced air mobility).
The purpose of the innovation center is to research and optimize multimodal, resource-saving passenger and freight transport in urban and interurban areas. The focus here is on fully and hybrid-electric small aircraft with high practical suitability and improved take-off and climb parameters that enable safe, emission- and noise-optimized operation. In this context, new impetus is also being provided for the training of pilots, aviation engineers and technicians.
New solutions for innovative technologies for small aircraft are researched and demonstrated in interdisciplinary teams from various institutes at the Innovation Center.
The activities at the Innovation Center are part of the programmatic research of DLR and the Helmholtz Research Field Aeronautics, Space and Transport.