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Featuring hot topics at the Aviation Technology Directorate, our biannual magazine FLIGHT PATH introduces JAXA's R&D activities in aeronautical field.

No.24 | WINTER 2019

<Feature Story>
Challenges of Young Researchers：Round table discussions in pursuit of the challenges set in the Fourth Mid-to-long-term Plan

<Aeronautics in depth>

<People>

<In Pictures>

No.23 | 2019 SUMMER

<Feature Story>
Advanced research into composite materials and structures

<Aeronautics in depth>

<People>

<In Pictures>

No.22 | 2018 WINTER

<Feature Story>
JAXA's Aspirations behind the Fourth Mid-to-long-term Plan

<JAXA Aeronautics Symposium 2018>

<Kármán line>

<People>

<In Pictures>

No.21 | 2018 SUMMER

<Feature Story>
JAXA's Goals in the Fourth Mid-to-long-term Plan

<Aeronautics in depth>

<People>

<In Pictures>

No.19/20 | 2018 SPRING

<Feature Story 1>
Flight demonstrations: Testing developed technologies in the air

  • Accurately estimating flight characteristics to enhance aircraft design
  • Flying for research: Responding to a variety of R&D needs

<Feature Story 2>
Looking back on the Third Mid-term Plan: Summary and major achievements for FY2013-FY2017

  • How does JAXA's research make a difference?

<Kármán line>

  • Interviewee: WATANABE Yasuhide, Associate Senior Researcher, HTV Technology Center, Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate
  • Interviewee:KUBOTA Kenichi, researcher, Numerical Simulation Research Unit

<People>

  • HASHIMOTO Kazuki
    "Making use optical technologies to benefit the aerospace sector"
  • KATO Kodai
    "Make a difference in the world"

No.17/18 | 2017 AUTUMN

<Feature Story 1>
Future into reality: Inspiring the aircraft of tomorrow with the Sky Frontier Program (Sky Frontier)

[Related technology] Sky Frontier: Creating new key technologies
  • Supersonic passenger aircraft
  • Compound helicopters
  • FEATHER

<Feature Story 2>
JAXA's wind tunnel technology − Meeting new needs −

  • Automatic balance calibration technology
  • Background noise reduction technology
  • Future measurement technology

<Special contribution>

  • Message from NASA Aeronautics

<Kármán line>

  • Interviewee: IWAHORI Yutaka, Director of the Structures and Advanced Composite Research Unit
  • Interviewees: FUJII Keisuke and NAGAI Shinji, Managers in the Aerodynamics Research Unit

<People>

  • YUHARA Tatsunori
    There's lots more to explore in aeronautics, which makes work fascinating"
  • MIKI Hajime
    "It all started with wind tunnels"

No.15/16 | 2017 SPRING

<Feature Story 1>
At the stage of delivering tangible results that benefit society Challenge of the Next Generation Aeronautical Innovation Hub Center

[Related technology] Tactical lightning avoidance technology

<Feature Story 2>
The aFJR (Advanced Fan Jet Research) project Taking aircraft engine development in a new direction

[Related technology] The technologies of the aFJR Project

<People>

  • FUJIWARA Takeshi
    Navigating activities for the certification of aviation equipment"
  • MIZOBUCHI Yasuhiro
    "To glean insight from simulation results, you need to understand the fundamentals of combustion phenomena."
<Sky Frontier>
  • Hydrogen-utilization technologies
<Basic and fundamental technology>
  • FaSTAR-Move: Analyzing the airflow around moving/deforming objects Super-small turbofan engine technology

JAXA Aeronautics Symposium 2016

No.13/14 | 2016 AUTUMN

Message from Director General of the Aviation Technology Directorate
”Shaping Dreams for Future Skies”

Feature 1
Challenges of the SafeAvio project

  • For safe and comfortable air travel

Feature 2
FQUROH: Ready for flight demonstration

  • Developing quiet aircraft technologies to reduce airport community noise

Basic and fundamental technology

  • Combustion instability
  • Composite materials - activities for international standardization

Aeronautics in depth

  • Weather information technology
  • Tunnel-in-the-Sky

No.11/12 | 2016 SPRING

Feature 1
The Next Generation Aeronautical Innovation Hub Center

  • Facilitating collaboration with a wide variety of stakeholders in diverse field
  • Snow and ice monitoring sensors

Feature 2
JAXA's contributions to the Japanese aviation industry

  • How JAXA's technologies benefit to the Japanese aviation industry
  • Supersonic transport research : Current trends and future prospects

Aeronautics in depth

  • Biaxial fatigue testing machine
  • Acoustic analysis (non-linear acoustic propagation and acoustic transmission/vibration)

No.9/10 | 2015 AUTUMN

Feature stories

  • JAXA Aeronautics at the heart of "all-Japan" R&D landscape
  • D-SEND#2 Successful flight
  • Flight system technology for making aircraft safer and more familiar

Research and development

  • Supporting Japan's aircraft engine technology with JAXA's engine test facilities and measurement technologies
  • JAXA's electric aircraft!

Basic research

  • Composite materials for next-generation jet engines
    What are ceramic matrix composites (CMCs)?

External cooperation

  • To enable short-term R&D return:
    SafeAvio industry-academia-government collaboration

Aeronautics in depth

  • Doppler LIDAR
  • Pressure-sensitive paint (PSP) measurement

No.7/8 | 2015 SPRING

Feature story

  • The DREAMS project to bring about innovative solutions to the air traffic management
  • The challenges of the DREAMS project
  • D-NET2: Integrated Aircraft Operation System for Disaster Relief
  • What is D-NET2's Key Technology?

Basic research

  • How JAXA is breaking new ground with HexaGrid and FaSTAR
  • Magnetic Suspension Wind tunnels

External cooperation

  • JAXA's Contributions to Civil Aviation Administration in Japan

No.5/6 | 2014 AUTUMN

Feature story

  • Aeronautical Science and Basic Technology Research - Cultivating and growing Japan's aerospace technology
  • Round Table Discussion "the future Opened Up by Unmanned aircraft"

Research and development

  • JAXA's globally-competitive advanced wind tunnel technology
  • Multiple small unmanned aircraft performing cooperatively

Basic research

  • Optical Fiber Sensor Research

No.3/4 | 2014 SPRING

Feature story

  • The Safety Technology for Aviation and Disaster-Relief Program (STAR)
  • How JAXA researchers envision the aircraft of tomorrow

Research and development

  • R&D of Onboard Safety Avionics Technology to Prevent Turbulence-Induced Aircraft Accidents (SafeAvio)
  • Protecting airplanes from ice with icing detection and anti-icing technology
  • Flight demonstration of Electric Aircraft Technology for Harmonized Ecological Revolution (FEATHER)

    Basic research

  • The Multi-axis Vibration Evaluating System (MaVES)
  • Analyzing acoustic vibration

No.1/2 | 2013 AUTUMN

Feature story

  • JAXA's Institute of Aeronautical Technology takes off
  • ECAT: Program for environment-conscious aircraft technology

Research and development

  • FQUROH: Flight demonstrations of noise reduction technology
  • Measuring aircraft noise in a wind tunne
  • aFJR: The Next-Generation Fan/Turbine System Technology Demonstration

    Basic research

  • International standardization for advanced composite material testing methods
  • Solving combustion instability problems
  • "DAHWIN", a wind tunnel in the near future

    External cooperation

  • Promoting cooperation with global partners