With the continued objective of increasing aircraft performances whilst reducing the environmental impact, research is being carried out to find innovative solutions to influence air flow using simple actuators. If the aerodynamic configu-ration of future aircraft could be modified in real time in flight, then the aircraft's performance could be continually adapted to provide optimum aerodynamic characteristics. 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 main advantages of plasmas devices are their manufacturing and integration simplicity, low power consumption, ability for real time control at high frequency and their robustness.