Civil aviation fund agreement signed

Vice Minister Yang Guoqing of the Civil Aviation Administration of China and Vice Director Sun Jiaguang of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) signed the second stage of the Civil Aviation United Fund agreement recently. Both affirmed the importance of the fund in improving China’s civil aviation technology level. Through the fund, they want to attract more national scientists and experts to develop fundamental research work. The fund will be used to give grants to general and key projects. The grant will be awarded to projects that are related to the following: new material and geotechnical engineering theory related to airport surface; aircraft airworthiness and maintenance, inspection theory and key technology; new flight system theory and technology; civil aviation system simulation technology; flight performance theory and technology; aviation safety and inspection theory and method; malfunction detection, system reliability theory and method related to civil aviation facilities; and national airspace resource management theory and method, civil aviation operating and managing theory and technology. Key projects include fundamental theory and key technology for an approach landing-enhanced vision guidance system under low visibility; and fundamental theory and method for a large airport moving targets collision-avoidance system.