Paris Air Show: Green sky thinking-Airbus FYI competition turns ...
Paris Air Show: Green sky thinking-Airbus FYI competition turns final
This week Airbus will reveal the winner of its second “Fly Your Ideas” (FYI) student research competition at the Paris air show, after the manufacturer invited young people around the globe to come up with fresh ideas to make aviation more environmentally friendly.
Five teams from Asia, Europe and South America with three to six members each have been shortlisted. The groups were chosen from more than 2,600 students in 75 countries who participated in the first, questionnaire-based selection process between September and December last year.
The second round, from January until March, saw 72 of the 315 initial teams proceeding to the next stage, where the students had to develop their ideas further, quantify the potential environmental benefits and produce short videos to portray their work in a creative way.
The five finalists will present their projects to a jury of Airbus representatives and external panellists at Le Bourget on 22 June, with the winners being announced the following day. First prize is €30,000 ($42,000) plus a trip to the airframer, and the second award is €15,000.
While a large number of submissions have, unsurprisingly, come from engineering students, Dale King, engineering coordinator for the FYI award, says the airframer was “very keen” to have contributions from students of other faculties and backgrounds, such as humanities. “The key is we want them to think about the aviation industry and come up with their own ideas of how things can be improved,” he says.
The competition did not focus on aircraft alone but was open for suggestions in any area of aviation, be it manufacturing, operations, airports, the surrounding infrastructure, maintenance or end-of-life disposal of aircraft.
Among the finalists is Team Condor – one woman and two men studying at the Universidad Técnia Federico Santa María in Chile, who devised a wind turbine, buried below the wing spoilers, which can generate electrical power when the control surfaces are operated.
The idea of this “energy recovery speed brake” (ERSB) is to save some of the energy that is lost when the spoilers are selected to slow down the aircraft, be it in the air or on the ground, to increase its rate of descent. The proposal comprises a cylindrical, four-bladed impeller installed along the full length of the cavity, below the speed brake. This is driven by an air stream coming through a gap between the bottom of the spoiler and wing surface. The generated electricity is to be either consumed by other aircraft systems or stored in batteries.
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