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Michel Polacco

Chronicles 15 January 2024

Runway incursion: one of the major risks still facing the air transport industry!

The year 2024 began for air transport with a disaster and a miracle. In Tokyo Haneda, a Japan Airlines Airbus A350 landed at night and collided with a Dash-8 Q300…

Chronicles 11 March 2020

“AI”: Intelligence is not an algorithm!

They only have this line in their mouths: artificial intelligence. “AI” will do this and that, and it’ll be far more efficient than us humans. And of course, it’s going…

Chronicles 24 February 2020

A400M: Fears and promises!

The A400M is not an aircraft, it is a “synthesis”. To quote, but wisely, Bernard Blier’s famous line in “Le cave se rebiffe”. A synthesis because the long history of…

Chronicles 4 February 2020

50% biofuels for commercial aviation!

Propulsion has been a strategic factor since the early days of aviation. Steam engine, like Clément Ader on the Eole or the Avion III, electric engine as for the balloon…

Chronicles 24 January 2020

With or without a pilot: Marc Rochet’s beautiful speech!

On 9 and 10 December last in Paris, the Air and Space Academy and the Naval Academy organised a symposium entitled “Towards unmanned aircraft and ships” at the DGAC headquarters….