Airbus // Universal Registration Document 2021

1. Information on the Company’s Activities / 1.3 Other Corporate Activities

or an idea, after which Scale will vet it against the Company’s growth strategy. If there is a match, Scale will deliver a business model and develop a viable product or service. – – Start-up engagement: The team combines Airbus’ corporate expertise with its ability to identify start-ups, partnering with those which are at a later stage in order to mature and scale ideas through mutually-beneficial collaborations. – – Company building: The team builds and launches new businesses that will support the recovery and future growth of Airbus, based on existing non-strategic assets. On top of those activities, Airbus Scale aims to support the business with global technology scouting (GTS). GTS is a​n efficient team spanning (almost) all continents in order to reach the top innovation hotspots to lead the objective detection of technology and trends that support or disrupt Airbus’ business. Commercial Aircraft In response to the COVID-19 crisis, Airbus commercial aircraft’s R&T activity was refocused on zero emission technologies for next generation aircraft, as well as other aircraft technologies, including propulsion, wing, systems, fuselage, empennage and cabin. There is also a transverse technology stream comprising industrialisation, sustainability and maintenance technologies. As part of its ambition to lead the decarbonisation of our industry, Airbus will continue to develop hydrogen technologies around the propulsion and liquid hydrogen storage and distribution systems. Airbus already started in 2021 to capitalise early on learnings in hydrogen technologies thanks to laboratory testing. This will accelerate in 2022 with more integrated ground testing, as well as the preparation of the forthcoming flight demonstrations. On top of that, different aircraft configurations will be explored and matured in 2022, to assess the most efficient way to integrate those technologies inside the aircraft. The Company will also continue its effort to support our customers to build their route- to-net-zero, and to grow its partnership landscape for critical technology bricks and the future infrastructure. Wing engineering and manufacturing demonstrators have made further progress, with the assembly in Broughton of the first full- scale wing box using elements from various plants and partners, with learnings both for the product itself and its industrial system. Airbus explored in 2021 the potential, the feasibility and the enablers of high aspect ratio wings. In the propulsion perimeter, various types of future propulsion architectures, product solutions, industrial technologies and capabilities are being explored to unlock strong improvements in performance and cost. Partnerships with engine and equipment manufacturers were developed. Research projects are also looking into the fuselage architecture, its materials and industrial strategies, with academic and supply chain partners. As part of the Clean Sky 2 EU research programme, assembly of a full-scale barrel thermoplastic demonstrator began in 2021. Use cases of sustainable materials for cabin parts have increased in maturity. Disruptive product and assembly techniques for empennages have proven their feasibility and value. Systems teams continued exploring platforms and components for aircraft systems and landing gear, and researching areas with potential for aiding more autonomous flights in the future.

logistics, AOS and quality; and to the engineering department in the US and Europe implementing the automation of stress analysis processes ( e.g. A321XLR ribs, spars, and covers). The Airbus Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) team at Acubed is enabling autonomous and digital operations to ensure a safe, fair and efficient airspace through research, simulations and industry collaboration. The team is building a suite of products to provide an extensible baseline UTM ecosystem, which includes the provision of essential aeronautical information services such as the FAA-approved Low Altitude Authorisation and Notification Capability (LAANC) airspace authorisation. Airbus UTM is partnering with Metron Aviation to participate in NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign, in which they successfully completed all required testing and development of UTM concepts as part of the X3 phase, and have now entered into the next X4 phase. The team is currently focused on industry needs and adoption of simulation-as-a-service to validate UTM concepts, as well as on growing the number of operators using their authoritative data products. Airbus China Innovation Center (“ACIC”) ACIC, based in Shenzhen, is the first innovation centre set up by the Company in Asia. Its mission is to fully leverage China’s local innovation ecosystem including talents, partners and resources, combined with the Company’s expertise in aerospace, to discover promising technologies, to identify solutions enabling new services, and to fast-track delivery of innovation projects. Manufacturing Innovation The team is tasked to explore industry 4.0 technologies to improve efficiency and safety on shop floor, as well as to leverage Airbus’ industrial sites in China for accelerated local testing and global dissemination. The team is working on computer vision, AGV, 5G industrial connectivity, smart tooling, remote inspection, green factory and IoT. Various applications are handed over to business and implemented in daily operation. Cabin Experience The team is tasked with providing innovation for the cabin and cargo of tomorrow, to enhance Airbus’ local cabin offering (localisation) and to increase value for Airbus global cabin products (from local to global). The team is working on broadband connectivity with 5G, a smart cabin operation system contributing to Airspace Link, flexible displays and cabin hygienic Solutions. Tech lab The team is working on computer vision algorithm development, battery scouting and testing, various types of sensors fit to different scenarios and fast electronics prototypes building. The team is also starting to engage with certain industry standard making organisations, to influence standards with aeronautic requirements. Airbus Scale Airbus Scale focuses on active innovation delivery and operates on three different levels all integrated under one “roof”: – – Corporate Innovation: Fostering entrepreneurship and out- of-the-box thinking within Airbus’ own culture. The vehicle by which Airbus “intrapreneurs” can submit a business strategy

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