Overview
Embarking on the journey of the future Hybrid-Electric Regional (HER) flights with HERFUSE, a pioneering project focused on revolutionizing regional aircraft propulsion systems. At our core, we strive to create innovative fuselage and empennage designs that are optimized for the next generation of Hybrid-Electric Regional aircraft. Our ultimate goal is to reduce Green House Gas emissions and contribute to a more sustainable future for our planet.
Summary
HERFUSE (Hybrid-Electric Regional FUSelage & Empennages) aims to design innovative fuselage and empennages for future Hybrid-Electric Regional aircraft (HER) to reduce Green House Gases (GHG) emissions. It addresses challenges in layout, materials, components, manufacturing, and assembly, integrating features for hybrid-electric propulsion and comple- mentary systems to improve weight, durability, aerodynamics, and operations. The project aligns with the HERA project, focusing on regional aircraft, and aims to achieve performance gains through technologies such as low GHG energy sources, storage, distribution, operational features, and thermal management. HERFUSE's technical solutions will contribute to reducing emissions at the aircraft level, in tandem with HERA's objectives.
Objectives
Providing a groundbreaking fuselage and empennage, along with integrated solutions, designed to align with Hybrid-Electric Regional concepts at significant component, assembly, or system levels, aiming to meet the environmental target set by SRIA for 2035 regional aircraft.
Showcasing on-ground components or sub-systems relevant to Hybrid-Electrical Regional, providing quantitative data to aircraft-level studies in HERA project, and validating hybrid-electric technologies at a high Technology Readiness Level (TRL), in anticipation of the subsequent development of an operational regional aircraft.