CleanSky’s green research accelerates after slow start
Clean Sky, the European Union’s ?1.6 billion ($1.9 billion) aeronautical research program, is aiming to have several demonstrators running on the ground or

Clean Sky, the European Union’s ?1.6 billion ($1.9 billion) aeronautical research program, is aiming to have several demonstrators running on the ground or flying in 2014-2015. At the first Clean Sky conference, held June 18 in Brussels, project leaders said that after a slow start in 2008-2009 the joint technology initiative (JTI) is gathering speed.

The Clean Sky team is striving to offer timely solutions to make the next generation of aircraft more environmentally friendly. In their view, it would be a mistake to work on brilliant technologies that would be available too late. The public-private partnership is to end in 2017, by which time the European Commission and the industry will have each spent £800 million ($950 million), in cash and in kind, respectively.