The ‘Maaskant Building’ of NLR in Amsterdam was reopened on Thursday, 9 February 2017. Amsterdam alderman Pieter Litjens, responsible for Traffic and Transport, performed the opening ceremony together with the architect’s son Ronald Maaskant. From start to delivery, it took […]
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A total of 2,700 professional flights with drones were carried out at the Netherlands RPAS Test Centre (NRTC) in Flevoland province in 2016, twice as many as in 2015. The flights concern the different activities that take place at NRTC: […]
NLR recently successfully completed the first flight trials using satellites for air-ground communication. This enables air traffic controllers to monitor an in-flight aircraft more effectively and thus increase the efficiency of air traffic management. The flight trials were carried out […]
Recently NLR has performed the third test of a model of the South Korean LAH helicopter in the Low-Speed Tunnel (LST) of German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW). The design was produced for Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), using 60Â percent 3D-printed plastic elements. […]
In 2019 the first F-35 fighter aircraft will start operating from bases in the Netherlands. As part of the necessary preparations, the Dutch Ministry of Defence is examining the shelters in which the aircraft will be stored. Can F-35s operate safely […]
The so-called Final Review Meeting of the EU’s MAAXIMUS project was recently held in Dresden, Germany. MAAXIMUS is a large-scale research project focusing on design, production and testing technologies for composite aircraft components. The project has made a concrete contribution […]
NLR and Delft University of Technology have joined forces to develop a system that enables aircraft performing a Continuous Descent Operations (CDO), or ‘gliding flight’, to arrive at their destination in time. NLR has tested this so-called TEMO system (Time […]
Frederik Mohrmann, active in NLR’s department for training and simulation, recently won the 2015 Best Paper Award for his publication in the Journal of Aviation Psychology and Applied Human Factors (APAHF), co-authored by his thesis supervisors Arjan Lemmers and John […]