With the continued objective of increasing aircraft performances whilst reducing the environmental impact, study is being carried out to find innovative solutions to influence air flow using simple actuators. Among the innovative solutions, the use of plasma technologies has shown itself to be very promising from both a performance point of view and in terms of the diversity in potential applications from external and internal flow control, combustion, enhancement and noise attenuation. The European project, PLASMAERO, began on 1 October 2009 and seeks to demonstrate how plasma actuators can be used to influence and control the main aircraft flows.