LATEST INTELLIGENCE develop the best possible air transportation concepts for future generations . To do this , the aviation industry needs a major paradigm shift . In short , the industry must reinvent itself .
The aircraft community is pushing engineers to envision new design concepts and technologies . The resulting concepts are promising , but aircraft have become increasingly complex . How do you go about engineering and assembling the next generation of aircraft if we have difficulties with the ones we are manufacturing today ? Luckily , we are already identifying the underlying integration issues : a higher amount of dynamic interaction between subsystems and an exponential increase in control software . To meet environmental legislation , there is a need to move to a more electric aircraft and new lightweight material such as composite . Challenge is issued from the fact that using more numerous electric equipment increase drastically heat loads . And most importantly , airline passengers are demanding more comfort and safety and a reduction in the carbon footprint .
The November 2010 Aviation Week article , “ Design for Success – Systems engineering must be rethought if program performance is to improve ” by Graham Warwick and Guy Norris captures the essential issues faced by aircraft industries when going from a complicated to complex aircraft management . Although everything you can think of is taken into account during the definition of an aircraft program , these programs often suffer major development delays and huge cost over runs . Indeed , one can roughly estimate that a one-year delay on a major commercial aircraft program creates an unforeseen cash burn of US $ 1 billion per year . p
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