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The purpose of the PPlane project is to explore an individual transport concept using automatic planes with few seats, for the general public. The challenge: supplementing the multimodal transport of the future with an air link to provide greater flexibility and speed.

ONERA has developed the EMIR technology, which makes it possible to obtain instant images revealing the intensity of electromagnetic waves. These waves, which are invisible to our eyes, transmit data from one point to another at the speed of light, for example for mobile phones, radio or television antennas, radars, etc. The EMIR images make it possible to know the amount of electromagnetic energy carried by waves and their direction of emission.

The fourth issue of Aerospace Lab, the Onera International Journal, is on line on www.aerospacelab-journal.org. It is devoted to the mastering of complexity. 

A first at Onera: the successful testing of an injector with a technology new in Europe - a double "Swirl" supplied with liquid oxygen /liquid methane. This technological progress was implemented on Onera’s cryogenic test bench Mascotte, located in Palaiseau (October 2011). 

ONERA'scientists have developed a synthetic turbulence generator to simulate the development of aircraft engine jets with greater accuracy. The results are presented in a video.

Manipulate a virtual helicopter model that has been used for an aerodynamic simulation, and examine it from every angle.

Onera has participated in a large scale ground vibration testing program on an A340-600 and has validated new means and methods suitable for large aircraft

Theoreticians and investigators in fundamental physics in space met for a conference at the Onera center in Palaiseau on Monday, September 19th. These specialists came to support the Microscope space mission and to emphasize how important it is for scientific knowledge. Microscope is a satellite (Cnes project) to confirm or invalidate the principle of equivalence, observed by Galileo, then by Newton, and which is the basis of the theory of general relativity of Einstein. The decision to launch Microscope in 2017 has been confirmed by the French space agency CNES in december 2011. 

The final report of the European project Swafea, on the feasibility and effects of introducing alternative fuels in aviation, is available.