Troubled Clean Sky programme back on track: new chief

"Clean Sky, the troubled public-private research bid to develop environmentally beneficial aviation technology, is making up for lost time, according to the newly appointed director of the seven-year programme. The €1.6 billion ($2.3 billion) research effort - whose cost is divided between private and European Commission-administered public funds - was understood to be at risk of foundering earlier this year, as some of the largest European aerospace manufacturers grew frustrated at bureaucracy that threatened to stall €30 million worth of initial research contracts." next.