Airbus Fly Your Ideas 2013 contest - finalists

Airbus video animation of the finalists concepts in Airbus's Fly Your Ideas student challenge, to be awarded on June 14. The five finalists in the order featured in the video are:
Team Levar, University of São Paulo, Brazil, for a luggage loading and unloading system for airplane cargo compartments to reduce the workload of airport baggage handlers with an air cushion solution inspired by air hockey tables.
Team CLiMA, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia for the development of aircraft fuelled by a blend of sustainably produced liquefied biomethane and liquefied natural gas (Bio-LNG).
Team AVAS, SRM University, India for reduced propulsion noise thanks to jet exhaust shape modification using shape memory alloys. These alloys are energized by harvested electricity generated by advanced thermoelectric materials using engine heat.
Team Flybrid, Technical University of Milan, Italy for an electric/turboprop combination for hybrid propulsion in regional aircraft. This system uses batteries pre-charged on ground and not in-flight.
Team Embarker, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia for a self-sustaining aircraft cabin concept in which the excess body heat from seated passengers is used as an alternative source of energy to power small electronics in the cabin.