Challenges and Advances
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Challenges
Advances
- In the future there will be more people wanting to fly more often so the aircraft companies will rely on aeronautical engineers to develop bigger and better aircraft while also maintaining or improving safety standards.
- Since there will be more people flying to more destinations fuel economy will become a challenge for Aeronautical Engineers to create solutions such as aircraft that don't run on fuel but might run on solar powered batteries.
- As aircraft are getting bigger aeronautical Engineers will need to balance improvements in design and technology with set budgets for example the Airbus A380 didn't have enough money to design multiple prototypes so they went to 4 countries (Spain, England, Germany, France) to help them continue to development of the A380.
- Aeronautical Engineers have to study and be aware of the effect that the aircraft that they are designing will have on the surrounding environment especially in the future because fossil fuel resources may become limited.
Advances
- In the future there will be more people wanting to fly more often so Aeronautical Engineers will have to create a personal flying device that people can use in there day to day activities.
- In the future there will be more lighter, stronger materials including Tiny Trusses. Tiny Trusses are a new type of material, made up of nanoscale struts crisscrossed like the struts of a tiny Eiffel Tower. If aeronautical engineers can figure out how to make the stuff in large quantities, it could be used as a structural material for making aircraft.
- In the future 3D printing technology could possibly be used to manufacture components for aircraft in large scale for less cost.