Driving Forward Aerospace Innovation

Dear Colleagues,

Aerospace tackles the multidisciplinary challenges faced by the aerospace industry in the 21st century. Extensive research and technology programmes, aligning directly with international and national industrial priorities and 2020-2050 Vision, are being delivered for greener, faster, safer and more extensive travel. Aerospace brings together the industry and academic communities in line with the strategy of focusing on the high value, technologically sophisticated parts of aircrafts, rotorcrafts, missiles, rockets and space vehicles.
For example, improvements enabled by Aerospace research are expected to lead to a reduction in CO2 emissions of more than 100 million tonnes each year from next generation aircraft - equivalent to taking 20 million cars off the road around the world. Although new materials such as composites are being increasingly used in aerospace, the initial approach has been to incorporate them within traditional aircraft designs. The industry has yet to take full advantage of the properties that these materials offer to open up radical new design options. It also needs to optimise manufacturing processes to allow structures using these materials to be made cheaply at high production rates. Aircraft manufacturers want better environmental performance to satisfy legislative and public demand.
To be leaner and greener new generations of aerospace vehicles will need to incorporate radically different technologies. This can be achieved by changing the way we design and manufacture wings, engines, structures and advanced systems and equipment, including key helicopter, missile and space technologies. The ideal plan would have a combination of both fundamental and applied research. We invite papers addressing these problems as an actual and important contribution to the state of the art.

Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Kontis
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Aerospace is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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