TY - CHAP AU - Andrey Starikovskiy AU - Nickolay Aleksandrov ED - Max Mulder Y1 - 2011-09-12 PY - 2011 T1 - Plasma-Assisted Ignition and Combustion N2 - In its first centennial, aerospace has matured from a pioneering activity to an indispensable enabler of our daily life activities. In the next twenty to thirty years, aerospace will face a tremendous challenge - the development of flying objects that do not depend on fossil fuels. The twenty-three chapters in this book capture some of the new technologies and methods that are currently being developed to enable sustainable air transport and space flight. It clearly illustrates the multi-disciplinary character of aerospace engineering, and the fact that the challenges of air transportation and space missions continue to call for the most innovative solutions and daring concepts. BT - Aeronautics and Astronautics SP - Ch. 12 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/17727 DO - 10.5772/17727 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-23 ER -