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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

• The En-Core Project
• Integrated simulation technology
• Supersonic aircraft
• Electric aircraft

<Aeronautics in depth>

• High-speed rotary-wing aircraft

<People>

• Adriana ANDREEVA-MORI
  Optimizing air traffic with smart flight technology

<In Pictures>

• Mixed reality technology
• Engine anti-icing/de-icing technology

No.23 | 2019 SUMMER

<Feature Story>
Advanced research into composite materials and structures

• Aiming to become an R&D hub that meets the needs of the industry while generating seeds
• Optimum design technology and Bionic Airframe innovating airframe structures competing with overseas technologies
• Thermoplastic CFRP, a promising next-generation aircraft material

<Aeronautics in depth>

• Optical fiber sensors

<People>

• NAMBU Taisuke
  Realizing a numerical simulation environment for engine developers to compete at the world’s top level

<In Pictures>

• Close-up view of the layers of carbon fiber...
• HOTALW:High performance Optical fiber...

No.22 | 2018 WINTER

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

• Toward broader social implementation, stronger fundamental research base, and creation of new value that provides innovative solutions to existing issues
• Accelerating core engine technology research
• Using integrated simulation technologies to solve complicated multidisciplinary problems
• Building on past research to make silent supersonic passenger aircraft a reality

<JAXA Aeronautics Symposium 2018>

• Solid technology to society, “wow” creation for future
• Special Lecture by BOEING “Innovation for the Future of Aerospace”
• Special Lecture by AIRBUS “AIRBUS: The electrification path”

<Kármán line>

• Leveraging CFD simulation technology at hypervelocity speeds to hone spacecraft re-entry technology

<People>

• YASUE Kanako, OKAMOTO Taiyo
  Setting new global trends through the “Work Creatively, Work Cool!” project

<In Pictures>

• This photograph was taken ...
• JAXA has been researching and ...

No.21 | 2018 SUMMER

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

• Interview with the Director General
  Solid Research with a Theme That Wows
• Discussion by Three Key Persons
  Thinking Ahead of the Times and Producing Excellent Researchers to Become the World's Top Research Institution

<Aeronautics in depth>

• SAVERH

<People>

• FUNABIKI Kouhei
  "Human factors for flight safety"

<In Pictures>

• Optical measurement technologies

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"

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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"

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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