Construction and Manufacturing

Construction and Manufacturing

27 February 2025

Full scale testing – certification testing

NLR offers comprehensive testing capabilities for components and full-scale structures, providing support throughout the entire testing process. Our expertise includes setting up tailored test plans that meet specific requirements, as well as ensuring that tests are certification-ready when necessary. We can advice you on finite element modelling and damage tolerance, and assist with processing, interpreting, and correlating test results. Over the years we have built a track record on the (certification) testing of full-scale structures and components for various aircrafts and helicopters. We are used to work both in a research environment and according to a certification and conformity regime.

Construction and Manufacturing

27 February 2025

Structurally integrated antennas

Our team provides expertise in antenna design and qualification, with a focus on structurally integrated antenna solutions for aircraft antennas. We possess in-depth knowledge of broadband phased array antennas, including beam steering capabilities, as well as smart arrays for mitigating interference and addressing antenna aperture deformations. Additionally, we offer radome modelling and analysis, utilising computational tools to predict antenna performance on aircraft and satellites, and have measurement capabilities for antennas and radomes.

Construction and Manufacturing

26 February 2025

Wind tunnel models

NLR delivers and develops wind tunnel models with a range of sophisticated features, including local force and moment balances, air-driven jet engine simulators, air-driven propellers in metal or composite, remote controls for angular adjustment of control surfaces for low or high speed, as well as remote controls for special components like parachutes, refueling hoses, and drogues. Our models can also be equipped with rapid prototyping parts, six-component rotational balances, and extensive arrays of static pressure taps and dynamic pressure transducers.