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HERFUSE
Innovative Fuselage/Empennage Design for Hybrid-Electric Regional Aircraft
HERFUSE is one of the 8 projects approved in September 2023 by the Governing Board of the Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking, as part of a € 380.000.000 funding with which the European Community intends to accelerate the trajectory of aviation towards climate neutrality in support of the European Green Deal. The Clean Aviation program has as its main objectives energy efficiency and the reduction of emissions of future aircraft
Grant Agreement number: 101140567
Call: HORIZON-JU-Clean-Aviation-2023-01
Topic: HORIZON-JU-CLEAN-AVIATION-2023-02-HER-01
It is a Hybrid Electric Regional Aircraft (HERA) type CA project, which promotes research and innovation towards new electric (hybrid) power architectures and their integration, as well as maturing technologies towards the demonstration of new configurations, on-board power concepts and flight control.
HERFUSE
Innovative Fuselage/Empennage Design for Hybrid-Electric Regional Aircraft
HERFUSE is one of the 8 projects approved in September 2023 by the Governing Board of the Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking, as part of a € 380.000.000 funding with which the European Community intends to accelerate the trajectory of aviation towards climate neutrality in support of the European Green Deal. The Clean Aviation program has as its main objectives energy efficiency and the reduction of emissions of future aircraft
Grant Agreement number: 101140567
Call: HORIZON-JU-Clean-Aviation-2023-01
Topic: HORIZON-JU-CLEAN-AVIATION-2023-02-HER-01
It is a Hybrid Electric Regional Aircraft (HERA) type CA project, which promotes research and innovation towards new electric (hybrid) power architectures and their integration, as well as maturing technologies towards the demonstration of new configurations, on-board power concepts and flight control.
Project overview
The HERFUSE project, led by Leonardo, is aimed at developing innovative fuselage and empennages suitable for future regional hybrid electric-hydrogen (HER) aircraft, which will contribute to the overall goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Mare Group will be involved in multiple activities, such as the definition of crashworthiness requirements for the entire aircraft; the concept design and multi-objective optimization of layout and materials for the fuselage; the concept design and multi-disciplinary and multi-objective structural optimization of the vertical empennage.
Main objective
Provide an innovative fuselage and empennage, along with integrated solutions, designed to align with regional hybrid-electric concepts at the level of significant components, assemblies or systems, with the aim of achieving the environmental target set by the SRIA for regional aircraft in 2035. Present relevant regional hybrid-electric ground components or subsystems, provide quantitative data to aircraft-level studies in the HERA project, and validate hybrid-electric technologies at a high TRL, in anticipation of the subsequent development of an operational regional aircraft.
For more information, visit the official HERFUSE website.
Timeline
Start / End
1-Jan-2024 / 31-Dec-2026
Duration 36 months
JAN
2024
KICK OFF
100%
JUL
2024
CONCEPTUAL DESIGN
85%
MAR
2025
DEMONSTRATOR AND TESTING
DEC
2026
PROJECT CLOSURE
FEB
2024
REQUIREMENTS
100%
OCT
2024
COMPONENT TESTING
JUN
2025
STRESSED DESIGN
MAR
2024
ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES
65%
JAN
2025
PRELIMINARY DESIGN
10%
AUG
2026
FINAL ASSESSMENT
JAN
2024
KICK OFF
100%
FEB
2024
REQUIREMENTS
100%
MAR
2024
ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES
65%
JUL
2024
CONCEPTUAL DESIGN
85%
OCT
2024
COMPONENT TESTING
JAN
2025
PRELIMINARY DESIGN
10%
MAR
2025
DEMONSTRATOR AND TESTING
JUN
2025
STRESSED DESIGN
AUG
2026
FINAL ASSESSMENT
DEC
2026
PROJECT CLOSURE
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