Green Regional Aircraft - The European Clean Sky Program Aims For Greener Aeronautics

Environmental friendliness of air traffic is of significant importance due to steadily rising passenger counts worldwide. On the one hand, air transport is a keystone to further economic growth but on the other it is facing all the global economic and ecological issues of today.The scope of aeronautic RTD objectives and the scale of necessary resources required setting up an industry-driven long term Public Private Partnerships (PPP) in the form of a Joint Technology Initiative (JTI). 'Clean Sky' JTI [1] works towards the objectives and targets defined in the Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) of the Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe (ACARE) [2] and its updates. With Clean Sky as an innovative European program aiming at massively lower the impacts of air transport on the environment, the established PPP collaborates towards ambitious goals asLess fuel consumption,Reduced emissions,Greener design, production, and maintenance and Faster introduction of innovative technologies into market.Clean Sky will deliver demonstrators in all segments of civil air transport, grouped into six technological areas called 'Integrated Technology Demonstrators' (ITD). Smart structures and integrated advanced low-noise solutions, innovative concepts for active flow and load control as well as green design, manufacture, maintenance and recycling for airframe and systems will be demonstrated.Fraunhofer Germany (FhG) is one of the managing organizations of the 'Clean Sky' program. The paper gives a brief introduction to Clean Sky and will focus on innovative concepts for active flow and load control offered by FhG. The new technologies applied will substantially increase the high lift capabilities of the wing during take off and landing and decrease annoyance due to noise at the same time.