COMPANION

配套项目的目的是定义、设计和准备一个通用的飞行测试演示平台，以便能够在实际操作条件的广泛范围内对Clean Aviation Call#01项目中开发的超高效推进系统进行全面验证。鉴于CA项目OFelia和Switch for飞行测试演示在清洁航空第二阶段的路线图规划中明确要求在2030年计划结束前实现TRL 6，必须准备一个相应的平台在2026年年底之前可用。该项目的目标是在2026年6月底之前准备并交付飞行测试平台的硬件，以便安装发动机。飞行许可程序将随之开始，但将需要在CA第一阶段结束时确定的后续项目中继续安装演示发动机。项目计划建议在空中客车A380飞机的基础上准备一个通用飞行测试演示平台，其中一个机内发动机塔架进行了修改，以适应目前正在为清洁航空短程和中短程概念飞机开发的多功能超高效提案系统，即开放旋翼测试发动机和混合电动超高通涡扇。试飞飞机将配备齐全，以容纳各种标准和特殊的飞行测试仪器，这些仪器将与奥菲利亚和斯维奇项目密切合作，以提供量化演示发动机在运行条件下的性能所需的所有数据。测试飞机允许演示发动机以高达100%的混合率使用传统煤油和SAF燃料。

The purpose of the COMPANION project is to define, design and prepare a common flight test demonstrator platform to enable the validation of ultra-efficient propulsion systems developed in Clean Aviation Call#01 projects at full scale and in a wide envelope of realistic operational conditions. Given the clear requirement in the roadmap planning of the CA projects OFELIA and SWITCH for flight test demonstrations in Clean Aviation Phase 2 to achieve TRL 6 before the end of the program in 2030, a corresponding platform must be prepared to be available before the end of year 2026. The project targets to prepare and deliver the hardware of the flight test platform ready for engine installation by the end of June 2026. The flight clearance process will be opened in COMPANION, but will need to continue with the installation of the demonstrator engines in follow-up projects to be defined at the end of CA Phase 1. The project plan proposes to prepare a common flight test demonstrator platform on the basis of an Airbus A380 aircraft with one of the inboard engine pylons modified to accommodate versatile ultra-efficient proposal systems which are currently under development for a Clean Aviation Short Range and Short and Medium Range concept aircraft, namely an Open Rotor test engine and a hybrid electric Ultra HighByPass Turbofan. The flight test aircraft will be fully equipped to host a diversity of standard and special flight test instrumentation that will be defined in close cooperation with the projects OFELIA and SWITCH to provide all data required to quantify the performance of the demonstrator engines under operational conditions. The test aircraft allows the demonstrator engines to operate on conventional kerosene and SAF fuel at blending rates of up to 100%.