ELectric Innovative Commuter Aircraft
The ELICA research project services are focused on the conceptual design of a 19 passenger commuter aircraft based on alternative propulsion concepts, targeting near-zero CO2 emissions.
Flightpath 2050
The project aligns with the environmental expectations of the European Commission
Door-to-door
90% of european travellers should reach their destination within 4 hours
Reducing emissions
Carbon, nitrogen oxides, and noise emissions will be reduced by 50%
Strengthening
Safeguard european high-quality jobs in the aerospace sectors
Months of development
European funds
% emissions cut
International partners
Activities
The overall work plan is divided in five (5) work packages (WPs), distributing actions over all participants. After identified the market opportunities, the aircraft requirements are passed to the propulsion and aircraft design partners, who exchange information to provide the most efficient design. Achievements will be used to elaborate trade-off studies, advise scientific and technical future challenges, and give feed-back to WP3 and WP4.
Powertrain Architecture
Rolls-Royce provides powertrain architecture while SISW deals with fault tolerance analysis
Scientific Challenge
All partners collaborate on enabling technologies, scenario analyses, and trade-off studies
Dissemination
A list of publications and deliverables is below.