Preliminary Programme
Tuesday 8th September
14:00 – 18:00
16:00 – 19:00
Sponsor/Exhibitors material installation
Conference registration (Entry hall, ground floor)
Wednesday 9th September
8:00 – 17:00
8:00 – 17:00
8:45 – 9:00
9:00 – 9:30
9:35 – 10:35
Cassiopée
Opening plenary
G. McConnell: A350
feedback
Session 1
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10:50 – 12:20
Session 4
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12:20 – 13:20
13:35 – 15:05
Session 7
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15:05 – 15:20
15:20 – 16:50
18:00 – 21:00
Session 10
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Exhibits
Conference registration
Spot
Session 2
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Break
Session 5
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Lunch
Session 8
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Break
Session 11
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Reception (Caravelle 2)
Argos
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Session 9
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Session 12
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Thursday 10th September
8:00 – 17:00
8:00 – 17:00
8:00 – 8:30
8:30 – 9:00
9:05 – 10:20
10:20 – 10:35
10:35 – 12:05
12:05 – 13:05
13:15 – 14:45
14:45 – 15:00
15:00 – 16:00
16:15 – 19:00
16:15 – 18:30
16:45 – 19:00
18:00
19:00 – 22:00
22:00
Cassiopée
Lecture 1: Ball Lightning
Lecture 2: Trip over storms
SAE/FAA discussion
Exhibits
Conference registration
Spot
Argos
Discussion with keynote
Discussion with keynote
speakers
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Break
Session 13
Session 14
Session 15
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Session 16
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Session 18
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Bus 1 - transfer to DGA TA, EMMA lightning platform visit (1h15), bus transfer to
Banquet
Bus 2 - transfer to Airbus, A380 mounting chain visit (1h30), bus transfer to Banquet
Bus 3 - transfer to Airbus, A380 mounting chain visit (1h30), bus transfer to Banquet
Bus 4 - direct transfer to Banquet location (no visit)
Banquet
Bus 1-4 transfer to Mercure/Novotel
Friday 11th September
8:00 – 14:00
8:00 – 12:00
7:45 – 9:15
9:20 – 10:20
Cassiopée
Session 22
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Session 25
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10:35 – 12:05
12:05 – 13:05
13:20 – 14:20
Session 28
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Exhibits
Conference registration
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Session 26
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Session 29
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Lunch
Closing plenary, awards
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Session 27
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Session 30
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Special sessions / plenary sessions
In addition to the 30 technical sessions, we are pleased to confirm three key note lectures and one
special session:
A350 Lightning Protection Feedback - Gordon McConnell
Gordon McConnell
Retired from Airbus
Previously A350 Chief Engineer
Ball Lightning: Scientific Observation and Laboratory Surrogates – James Brian Mitchell
Ball lightning has been an enigma for centuries. A floating fireball that can pass through closed
windows, which can float in the air for seconds and whose mode of formation has defied scientific
explanation. Indeed there have been factions who have attributed it to an optical illusion or a
figment of an imagination, shocked at being too close to a lightning strike. Last year a Chinese
research team succeeded (by chance) to film the phenomenon using a video camera equipped with a
spectrograph. This observation was able to confirm that ball lightning is indeed a dusty plasma whose
energy and longevity come from the chemical reaction of nanoparticles oxidizing in air. This is the socalled "Abrahamson Model". There is also the implication that microwaves created by the lightning
play a role in the formation of this plasma and this can perhaps explain the fact that it is seen to pass
through solid walls and windows. Experiments that reproduce microwave generated surrogates of
ball lightning [4-6] will be presented along with results obtained with these objects in experiments at
the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility.
The implications for effects on aircraft will be discussed along with the possibilities for laboratory
experimentation in this regard.
J. Brian A. Mitchell
Institut de Physique de Rennes
Université de Rennes I
35042 Rennes, France
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Trip Over Storms – Serge Soula
Thunderstorms are associated with large clouds called cumulonimbus. Under these clouds, are
produced visible phenomena such as lightning, heavy rain, but sometimes other more violent like
hail, strong winds or tornadoes. Above some thunderstorms this is not the calm and electrical
discharges may even been produced. TLEs (English Transient Luminous Events) are all of these
discharges that come in the form of often spectacular luminous phenomena. These phenomena
share the space between the top of the storm cloud (about 12 km in temperate latitudes) and the
base of the ionosphere (about 90 km at night) while making "sparks" giant observed since about
twenty five years. Globally, the most common are the elves (like Emissions of Light and Very Low
Frequency Electromagnetic interference from pulse Sources) as indicated by space observations from
satellite. They appear as rings of light 100 to 300 km in diameter and at 90 km of altitude that
correspond to the ionosphere in nocturnal conditions. They occur rather above oceanic and coastal
storms. Sprites are the most observed with cameras at the ground, above the stratiform regions
mesoscale storms (MCS). They are of different shape, structure and size, and they generate
spectacular nocturnal light emissions of red color. They are produced very rapidly after a positive
cloud-to-ground flash, as a streamer discharge initiating around 70 km in altitude. The blue jets
emerge from the top of the cloud in the form of blue light cones that reach 30-40 km in altitude.
Gigantic jets reach the ionosphere while electrically connecting to the storm cloud. They are
generally observed above tropical storms. The "bestiary" of these phenomena is perhaps not
closed... They are not without consequence on energy transfer, electrical and chemical effects in the
upper atmosphere, and they radiate not only light but radiation of high energy like gamma. Several
space projects are in preparation to break through the last mysteries.
Serge Soula
Laboratoire d'Aérologie
Université de Toulouse
Toulouse, France
Special Session – SAE/FAA discussion
This session will be led by Billy Martin and Dave Walen.
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Visits
EMMA Lightning Platform
The EMMA facility is composed of a new generator dedicated to lightning certification and R&T tests,
along with associated measurement means. The EMMA lightning test facility has been specified and
developed in the frame of the project “FOUDRE”. It is has been in service since February 2014.
The generator was manufactured in order to take into account:
Standards evolution in terms of fuel tank lightning protection: it is flexible with the ability to
generate waveforms gradually from 200A to 200kA in order to detect the sparking threshold and it
can perform more realistic current waveforms by the mean of a crowbar system.
Complex CFRP structures: for example, it has the capacity to test very large carbon composite
specimens e.g. A330 Horizontal Tail Plane
The generator has been developed with associated measurements in order to detect/measure
events not defined in the standards – e.g. thermal cameras for temperature rise recording, very high
speed video cameras to better understand the order of events during a lightning strike, capacity to
detect ignition sources greater than 200µJ by using a flammable mixing gas etc.
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A380 Mounting Chain
From a belvedere integrated into the factory, you will have the opportunity to have a large view on
the A380 manufacturing chain. A description of the production process of A380 aircraft will be also
presented.
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