The background of the general topic (multi-functional coatings) was to examine the wear behaviour of multi-functional coatings during real flight conditions.

Lufthansa Airline and Lufthansa Technik as MRO provider fulfilled all prerequisites itemised in the CfP and were an ideal participant partnership to perform the projected flight test program. Lufthansa was an active driver of general clean sky policy topics and would like to support also relevant technical topics regarding this aspect.

Lufthansa Airline operated its fleet world wide amongst others also to Asia and India. Lufthansa Technik as its main MRO provider has access to the aircraft and would cover all technical work packages (i.e. application of the multi-functional coatings supported by the ITD Topic leader, inspection of the coating areas during the test period including documentation of the measurement results, de-application of the coating etc.) most probably at its maintenance facilities in Frankfurt or Munich.