{"id":414252,"date":"2022-10-21T06:29:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T04:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationorigins.com\/?p=414252"},"modified":"2022-10-21T06:29:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T04:29:00","slug":"firefighting-aircraft-of-the-future-are-flexible-autonomous-and-can-land-vertically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/firefighting-aircraft-of-the-future-are-flexible-autonomous-and-can-land-vertically\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighting aircraft of the future are flexible, autonomous and can land vertically"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As seen again this summer in the Mediterranean region, firefighting aircraft or helicopters are the only means fire departments have of dealing with major forest fires. Aircraft can quickly throw large quantities of water onto even hard-to-reach fires. The German Aerospace Center (DLR)<\/a> has been hosting Design Challenges for young scientists for six years. This year, designs for future firefighting aircraft were the topic. Six teams recently presented their concepts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current firefighting aircraft are usually converted military aircraft, older passenger planes or helicopters with firefighting tanks. Only two specialized firefighting aircraft are in production worldwide. Both are amphibious flying boats that can land on water as well as airfields. De Havilland Canada<\/a> has been producing the CL-415 since 1994, and it can carry up to 6,000 liters of water. The Russian jet flying boat Beriev Be-200<\/a> has been flying since 1998 and is about the size of a small commercial jet. It holds about 11,000 liters of water. The CL-415 is more widely used and is also used by France, Spain and Greece.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Monaco Solar & Energy Boat Challenge: The future is written today<\/div>
The Monaco Solar & Energy Boat Challenge once again focused on various alternative propulsion systems in the maritime sector.<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

The German DLR Design Challenge 2022<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This year’s Design Challenge was not simply about a futuristic aircraft design. The task was to design a fleet of aircraft at once that could collectively drop at least 11,000 liters of water onto a fire during a single firefighting operation. It was up to the teams to decide how many aircraft they wanted to use and how high their payload would be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here were the aircraft requirements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n