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The MAELE Community

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Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Occitanie regions

Since November 2020, MAELE has enabled to provide financial support amounting to more than 17 million euros in grants from the Occitanie and Nouvelle-Aquitaine regions to support some twenty projects related to green aircraft. Within the framework of these projects, several key technologies are under development and will be integrated in electric propulsion or hybrid planes with the aim of serving the needs of the leisure market, pilot training, as well as new regional air mobility applications.

Through the first phase of the Bpifrance Low Carbon Aircraft call for projects under the aegis of France2030, out of 9 winning projects, 7 project sponsors are Aerospace Valley members and 6 projects were accredited by the cluster:

 

  • ATEA project by Ascendance Flight Technologies, #FrenchTech2030 winner
  • BEYOND AERO project, Beyond Blue Aerospace Corporation
  • CASSIO 330 project by VoltAero, TRIUMPH, CONTROLS France and Akira Technologies
  • ELIXIR AIRCRAFT project by Elixir Aircraft, #FrenchTech2030 winner
  • FLAM2 project by VELICA, Daher, SUPMICROTECH-ENSMM
  • FLYCERA project by ISP System and SERMA INGENIERIE

 

The Cluster is proud to be able to accompany you daily within the framework of our MAELE initiative in which all Aerospace Valley members and the winner of this call are involved.

The Government’s commitment, via FRANCE2030 marks a new critical phase for the consolidation of the industrial sector around decarbonized light aviation.

ATEA PROJECT

By Ascendance Flight Technologies - French Tech 2030 winner

Project duration : 36 mois

Funding awarded : 12,6 m€

Description :

The ATEA project, run by Ascendance Flight Technologies, aims to support the development of the first full scale flying prototype of the Atea eVTOL aircraft, a key phase in the development and certification of the aircraft developed by Ascendance Flight Technologies. 
 Atea is a low-carbon, low noise emission aircraft providing a sustainable alternative to the helicopter, enabling to meet the needs of the regional air mobility market to connect poorly served areas. Atea is the first step to  low-carbon regional aviation.

BEYOND AERO PROJECT

Beyond Blue Aerospace Corporation

Launch of the project : July 2023

Description :

Beyond Aero has already successfully developed a 60 kW fuel cell system as well as an 85 kW hybridization, thermal, electrical and propulsion management system. 

With this new phase of technological maturity, Beyond Aero will  study, design, and develop a propulsion system based on a hydrogen fuel cell and its monitoring in order to control its performances and related risks and validate electric propulsion on a scale representative of one of two engines of the “One” aircraft under development (500 kw mechanic, powered by 2 300 kW electrical systems) based on the same architecture as the scaled down system already validated in the past.

CASSIO 330 PROJECT

By VoltAero, TRIUMPH, CONTROLS France and Akira Technologies

Project startup date : 16 Dcember, 2022

Funding awarded : 5,5 m€

Description :

The purpose of the CASSIO330 project, driven by VoltAero is the development, certification and industrialization of a 5 seat modular hybrid electric aircraft dedicated to Regional Aviation.

The CASSIO330 project is currently being deployed within a context favourable to the development of a French electrical industry to serve the global aeronautics industry. The development of this technology, which is meant to be transferable to commercial aviation in the longer term, will also take part in the evolution of regional air transportation and the certification framework.

ELIXIR AIRCRAFT PROJECT

By Elixir Aircraft, French Tech 2030 winner

Project startup date : April 2023

Funding awarded : 13,2 m€

Description :

The focus of the Elixir Aircraft project, sponsored by the company with the same name is to industrialize the VFR single engine two seat aircraft and enable the development of a larger aircraft compatible with sustainable fuels.

FLAM2 PROJECT

By VELICA, Daher, SUPMICROTECH-ENSMM

Project startup date : January 1st, 2023

Funding awarded : 907 500€

Description :

The FLAM2 project (Flutter Advanced Method, second part), run by Velica, in partnership with DAHER and the FEMTO-ST institute, aims to make flutter determination more reliable using Robustness analysis. FLAM2 is based on the existing FLAM method, which enables to make a flutter prediction in compliance with the regulatory requirements of certification authorities’ (EASA and FAA). The new FLAM2 approach will ultimately enable to increase the number of configurations assessed without carrying out new vibration tests with the prototype, to improve the calibration of digital aircraft models and to optimize their designs, in particular low carbon aircraft requiring innovative structural and aerodynamic architectures.

FLYCERA PROJECT

By ISP System, SERMA INGENIERIE, IRIT

Project startup date : February 2023

Funding awarded : 3,3 m€

Description :

This project is run by ISP System (Vic en Bigorre 65500) with the partners Serma Ingénierie (Cornebarrieu, 31700) and l’Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse.

Flycera aims to design highly efficient, intelligent lighter, more compact rotary electric servo-actuators for flight control applications in light, regional and VTOL/drones  aviation. These actuators will replace electrohydraulic or electric linear actuators traditionally used in commercial aviation.

Flycera is committed to proposing a solution which should enable to replace heavy and more polluting hydraulic systems. Thanks to their design and use, they are in line with national ecological objectives and are part  of the France 2030 aircraft electrification strategy.