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At this website you find our latest e-news as well as links to news of project participants. We will keep you updated and present our progress.

ALBATROSS

09.03.2023 | The Project ALBATROSS had been shortlisted for one of the Digital European Sky AWARDS from SESAR at the Airspace World in GENEVA 2023. With over 1,000 flight trials, the project showed how to make more energy-efficient trajectories an everyday reality. We came home with the People's Choice Award and thank all those participants who made it possible and also great thanks to the auditory.

SEPHER powers ground systems for ALBATROSS

24.01.2023 | In the frame of ALBATROSS project, DSNA has tested an innovative solution for electricity production based on renewable energies & hydrogen to supply DSNA's ground systems

Sesar partners move ahead with sustainable taxiing tests at Schiphol

20.12.2022S| SESAR partners, led by SESAR 3 JU founding member Schiphol, have started follow-up testing on more sustainable methods for taxiing. The tests are part of work undertaken by SESAR's flagship very large-scale demonstration, ALBATROSS, and its successor, the Digital European Sky Demonstrator, HERON, co-funded by CINEA

Aviation sector starts follow-up sustainable taxiing tests at Schiphol

07.12.2022 | Schiphol and partners have started conducting follow-up sustainable taxiing tests. At the airport, a KLM plane drove from Schiphol-Centre to and from a platform near the Zwanenburgbaan Runway with its engines switched off. This way of taxiing can significantly reduce fuel consumption and therefore CO2, nitrogen and ultrafine particle emissions. This trial run marks the start of various tests with the two semi-robotic taxiing systems that Schiphol purchased earlier this year.

How to create optimal eco-efficient flights

19.10.2022 | What does the most eco-friendly flight look like? Andreas Linnér, Novair, is gatekeeper within the project for the overall ALBATROSS concept of operations (CONOPS) and explains what it means to fly the optimum flight in terms of sustainability.

Behind the scenes: measuring the environmental performance of SESAR Solutions

24.02.2022 | Find an Interview with Dr. Zainal Abidin on the performance measurement within the ALBATROSS project. Exact measurement of aircraft performance is of highest interest to make benefits of Solutions applied in ALBATROSS visible an interpretable.

Schiphol invests in vehicles to taxi aircraft sustainably

18.02.2022 |Schiphol is going to buy two TaxiBots, special towing vehicles that enable aircraft to taxi sustainably. Schiphol is Europe’s first airport to start using TaxiBots. The investment is part of Schiphol's plan to speed up the process of making aviation more sustainable and is an addition to the investments the airport previously decided to make.

AUSTRO CONTROL NEWS - ALBATROSS

23.12.21 | The Austro Control Newsletter describes the ALBATROSS Project and reveals the role and the work share of Austro Control in the consortium. - in german language-

Aviation sector presents sustainable taxiing roadmap

25.10.2021 |The Dutch aviation sector has presented Barbara Visser, demissionary Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management, with a roadmap to reduce fuel consumption of taxiing and CO2, nitrogen and (ultra fine) particulate matter significantly at Schiphol. This plan aims to make sustainable taxiing standard procedure at Schiphol by 2030 at the latest. The first step will be the deployment of two special aircraft towing vehicles for a follow-up pilot study at Schiphol mid-2022. If successful, this pilot will transition to a standard procedure, with aircraft taxiing sustainably to and from the Polderbaan runway.

Seeking the most energy efficient flight - Episode 4: sustainable taxiing on ground

12.10.21 | Through the various operational solutions put into practice during the ALBATROSS' missions, Airbus and its partners are exploring how we could optimize aircraft “Taxi-In” and “Taxi-Out” phases without use of jet engine power thanks to a semi robotic and hybrid towing vehicle.

Seeking the most energy efficient flight - Episode 3: Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF)

06.10.21 | In this third instalment of our series of articles on SESAR’s Albatross very large demonstration (VLD) project which will explore and demonstrate the most fuel-efficient flights through a series of gate-to-gate live trials across Europe, we put the spotlight on the work package for Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) led by Airbus.

Seeking the most energy efficient flight - Episode 2: Flight trajectory

28.09.2021 | Did you know that an aircraft which sends accurate predictions of its planned trajectory is an aircraft that can improve fuel efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions? This is the idea behind the four-dimensional Trajectory-Based Operations (“4D-TBO”) Airbus is currently working on.

Seeking the most energy efficient flight - Episode 1: ALBATROSS

21.09.2021 | With the launch of ALBATROSS, a 2 year SESAR project aiming to implement the most efficient flight, Airbus is taking a further step to meet its commitment to pioneer a sustainable future.

Airbus and partners target more energy efficient flights

21.09.2021 | Airbus, Air France and DSNA, the French Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP), have begun working towards the development of “most energy efficient flights”, following their inaugural demonstration flight from Paris to Toulouse Blagnac on the day of the Airbus Summit event. The aircraft flew an optimised trajectory, marking the first of a series of trials planned during 2021 and 2022 within the framework of the Single European Sky ATM Research Joint Undertaking (SESAR JU) “ALBATROSS” project.

ALBATROSS: joining forces to further reduce aviation’s environmental impact

21.06.2021 | The recently launched SESAR JU very large demonstration project, ALBATROSS, unites multiple actors from the aviation industry to demonstrate the potential of commercial aviation to reduce the environmental impact of air traffic. In this article, project leader, Mattia Nurisso from AIRBUS, highlights the main objectives, challenges and activities planned by the project.

ALBATROSS, the most energy-efficient flying bird

22.02.2021 | Aviation is taking further measures to meet its commitment to a sustainable future, with the launch of ALBATROSS, a 2-year very large-scale SESAR demonstration project that will develop greener flight operations to be deployed in the short term.

The funding of the project is provided by the EU under the Grant Agreement No 101017678.


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