After receiving around 500 submissions for its "Fly Your Ideas" competition this year, to seek out ideas from students with a mix of engineering and non-engineering backgrounds, Airbus unearthed a number of pretty incredible innovations that could be created, patented and implemented in aerospace production.
The five finalists' inventions :
Drones and "Birdport"
Energy-harvesting skin
Game console-inspired infra-red guidance system
The faster trolley trash system
Wireless and greener ground operations