Welcome to the DLR webcast. So that's what you're seeing here is the Spaceliner concept. And Spaceliner is the visionary passenger transport, hypersonic passenger transport, ultrafast concept,

flying from Australia to Europe in 90 minutes or from Europe to the west coast of America in one hour. Well, that's possible by using rocket propulsion or space technology. It's lifting off like a space shuttle vertically by two stages. The stages are separated after a couple of minutes

and after less than 10 minutes we have a burnout of the passenger stage and afterwards this passenger stage is in a very fast hypersonic Mach 20 gliding flight up to its destination. Well, this is a point to point travel vehicle for point to point travel on Earth

but it could be of course also developed later to an orbital vehicle reaching space and staying in space with less payload and maybe transporting satellites also at a very affordable price. But the main application and the largest market what we think is point to point travel on intercontinental destinations on Earth.

So currently we are in a research phase and we hope to develop this project in the next decades and so we hope to fly it before the year of 2015.

What you see here is a quadrocopter. It's a new experiment of the DLR school lab in Berlin and we invite pupils to get for one day into a school lab and make some experiments out of the research areas of the German Aerospace Center. One example for the DLR use of octocopters

is the civil defense for search and rescue missions and so on. So the development of quadrocopters with different sensors, with different cameras, infrared, visible and radar.

What I am exhibiting here is a so-called droop nose system and it's a high lift system for an aircraft with contradiction to normal sled systems which have gaps which are producing a lot of noise and affect the boundary layer.

And we have here a morphing structure as you can see here which does not have any gaps which produces the same effect as a normal sled. DLR is involved in the development of the skin of the structure and especially the institute of composite structures and adaptive systems. The second partner is EADS Innovation Works

who made the kinematics within the wing and our third partner the Tsage from Russia are just performing wind tunnel tests in Moscow with a five meter wingspan demonstrator for flow analysis. The application of this system is to generate a high lift for the aircraft and this is especially needed in take-off and landing so that we can use a lower take-off and landing speed

and therefore we are just changing the camber of the wing for allowing lower approach and take-off speeds. The other extent allows us to reduce the noise and fuel consumption with induced flight.

We are exhibiting our research on aerogels which is developed at the institute of material physics in space at Cologne DLR. We are working on aerogels because it is a very interesting material that is very light and has a nanoporous structure

which allows us to make materials that have low thermal conductivity and be very light. I can show you here the work we do in cooperation with the DLR Institute of Vehicle Concepts in Stuttgart. We work on composite material of aerogels with alumina

and this material has very good properties which allows us to have a fresh absorption in a much higher range than other materials are used for.

This experiment is showing the difference in the suiting propensity between a crude oil kerosene, classical jet A1 kerosene, and a synthetic gas-to-liquid kerosene which has been produced from natural gas

in regions where there is too much natural gas and which is usually wasted in flares. This is now processed and the process is producing a synthetic kerosene or diesel, whatever you like. In the case of kerosene, we are testing the suiting propensity in this experiment

and we can compare the two fuels with respect to the suiting propensity here. The Institute of Combustion Technology in Stuttgart has mainly the task to test the combustion properties

of different new fuels, synthetic fuels from biogenic sources, which are processed to a status where they can be used as a kerosene-like fuel. Especially we are testing ignition delay time,

we are testing the flame velocity, but also we are more complex experiments doing tests, for instance, for altitude relight conditions and how the new fuel is behaving under those conditions relevant to certification processes.

Thank you. This was the DLR webcast. Thank you for watching.