Demonstration of an Ultra-Efficient Rear Fuselage and Empennage and Its Integrated Industrial System enabling EIS2035 for the SMR Aircraft
Funds an innovation project that develops and demonstrates an ultra-efficient rear fuselage and empennage, plus its production system, for an SMR aircraft.
This topic's own money is the EUR 40 million maximum EU contribution figure - the EUR 329.5 million shown in the topic's cost table is the whole Clean Aviation call's headline line, shared identically across seventeen sibling topics in the same call. Evaluation uses the CA JU's own bespoke template for large-scale Innovation Action projects rather than a generic Horizon Europe evaluation form, tho…
This call funds development of an ultra-efficient rear fuselage and empennage assembly, together with the industrial system to manufacture it, for the ultra-efficient short-to-medium-range (SMR) aircraft. Proposals should deliver a full component assembly and an advanced manufacturing and assembly system supporting high-rate production at Technology Readiness Level 6, aiming to cut component weight and set a clear route to certification and industrialisation for entry into service by 2035.
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