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aircraft level. Part of a EU Horizon 2020 from the industrial partners. Reducing Aeronautics Research in Europe) 2020 goals
research and innovation programme that the environmental impact of commercial which call for a 50 percent reduction in fuel
brought together industry, academia and aviation remains a key pillar for the future consumption and Co2 emissions, along with
small and medium enterprises (SMEs) growth of aviation and CS2 will result in an 80 per cent reduction in Nox emissions
across the European Union, the principal the development of technologies and flight and a 50 per cent reduction in an aircraft’s
objectives of CS2 is the reduction of aircraft procedures that will deliver up to a 30 per external noise footprint.
Co2 and Nox emissions and reducing cent reduction in fuel burn and related Co2 The Clean Sky 2 Programme consists of
perceived aircraft noise levels, through the emissions; identical or better reductions four different elements: Three Innovative
development of innovative and cutting- in Nox emissions and an up to 75 per cent Aircraft Demonstrator Platforms (IADPs),
edge technology. Funding for the new Clean reduction in the noise footprint, as compared for Large Passenger Aircraft, Regional
Sky 2 (CS2) programme has more than to the technology extant in the commercial Aircraft and Fast Rotorcraft, operating
doubled to just over €4 billion, with the EU aviation sector in 2014. Clean Sky is the demonstrators at vehicle level; Three
contributing €1.8 billion from the Horizon main contributor to reaching the industry- Integrated Technology Demonstrators
2020 programme budget and €2.2 billion supported ACARE (Advisory Council for (ITDs), looking at Airframe, Engines and
Systems, using demonstrators at system
level; Two Transverse Activities (Eco-
Design, Small Air Transport), integrating
the knowledge of different ITDs and IADPs
for specific applications. A Technology
Evaluator (TE), assessing the environmental
and societal impact of the technologies
developed in the IADPs and ITDs. The
Clean Sky programme follows a seven-year
cycle with Clean Sky running from 2009
to 2016 and Clean Sky 2 will run from 2017
to 2024. The original Clean Sky effort and
its successor Clean Sky 2, have a four-year
transition period (2014-2017). Despite the
far reaching and ambitious technological
goals and challenging time-lines of the
Clean Sky programme, almost all the major
demonstrators defined at the beginning
for the initiative have reached the stage of
running trials or are in the final phase before

TOP: The first flight of the Airbus
Flight Lab, an A320 jetliner took place
in June this year. The flying test bed will
be used to conduct flight evaluation
of a number of highly innovative
electrical technologies developed as
part of Clean Sky’s SGO Systems for
Green operations (SGO) platform

BOTTOM: An ATR 72 prototype is now
conducting a flying demonstration
campaign as part of the EU’s Clean Sky
Joint Undertaking (CS JU) program.
The ‘All Electrical Aircraft’ (AEA)
flight test took place in February,
2016 to test an all electrical energy
management system, a new all
electrical air conditioning system,
new and more effective composite
insulation materials and new vibro-
acoustic sensors integrated into a
large panel of the ATR aircraft fuselage
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