Bauhaus Luftfahrt Jahrbuch 2019

13
energy
technologies &
power systems
alternative
fuels
technology
radar
systems
& aircraft
technologies
operations
About
Bauhaus Luftfahrt
What drives the mobility of tomorrow? What alternative
energy options will be available for aviation in the long
term? Which power and system technologies will further
improve the efficiency of future aircraft concepts, and
will these lead to completely new designs? What impact
will information technologies have on future products
and their development processes? In light of these and
other questions, as a research institution, Bauhaus
Luftfahrt analyses major driving forces, new technological
approaches, and innovative ideas and integrates
them into holistic solutions for aviation.
For more than a decade, Bauhaus Luftfahrt is
studying topics from very different perspectives in the
sense of a think tank: The 39 scientists with professional
expertise in their fields of social sciences and economics,
nature and engineering sciences as well as informatics
identify and assess promising approaches and develop
them, frequently in collaboration with national and
international partners, as a basis for new product ideas
and concepts. Bauhaus Luftfahrt is thereby playing a key
pioneering role – as a think tank, a research institution,
and an impulse generator for experts, the public, and
politicians.
According to all forecasts, the civil aviation fleet will
triple by 2050. The goals of 75 % less CO 2 emissions,
considerably reduced NO x emissions and noise compared
to 2000 are expressed in Flightpath 2050. From the
growth in air traffic, the Flightpath 2050 goals, and the
long product life cycles of aircraft of up to 60 years,
Bauhaus Luftfahrt derives its task of going far beyond
the boundaries of conventional technologies and
materials and of studying new aspects. Here, no predictions
can or should be made on what the next product
will be. Instead, scientists are searching for new technologies
and materials, showing their relevance for
future developments, and raising awareness of wherein
the potential for aviation lies. The knowledge gained in
this way offers numerous incentives to think differently
and participate in discussions – and all of that is outside
the existing conventional research and development
landscape. The approach, to first let an idea arise in an
interdisciplinary creative process and then check it in
a scientifically sound manner for its applicability, makes
Bauhaus Luftfahrt unique as a research institution in
Germany and Europe.
Bauhaus Luftfahrt e. V. was founded in November
2005 by the three aerospace companies Airbus,
Liebherr-Aerospace and MTU Aero Engines as well as
the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional
Development and Energy. The source of the name was
Staatliches Bauhaus, the interdisciplinary art, design,
and architecture school by Walter Gropius in the
Weimar and Dessau of the 1920s. Since 2012, IABG
Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft has rounded out
the circle of renowned industrial partners. Since 2015,
Bauhaus Luftfahrt has been based on Ludwig Bölkow
Campus in Taufkirchen near Munich, whose founding
partner it is.