For the security of airports or ports, police and military need to have detailed overviews. In this context, the National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) has worked on integrating and visualizing all operational (sensor) information in one large screen.The Ministry of Defense […]
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The Netherlands Minister of Economic Affairs, Henk Kamp, launched the public-private knowledge-to-knowledge programme in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) is the project leader of this programme that aims to further promote knowledge exchange between the […]
NLR recently received an award from the European Space Agency (ESA) for its involvement with the Galileo satellite navigation system. NLR was among the first 50 organisations and companies to use signals from Galileo to determine a position. This was […]
This month NLR engineers received a prestigious award from National Instruments (NI), a renowned, global player in the field of measurement, control and test instrumentation. The Engineering Impact Awards are presented each year during NIWeek in Austin, Texas, and showcase […]
On August first, Swiss National Day, the first prototype of the PC-24 of Pilatus Aircraft Ltd has been rolled out and presented to the public at Stans in Switzerland. The two-engine business jet was developed entirely in Switzerland, with a […]
ACCEPTA: ACCelerating EGNOS adoPTion in Aviation The National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) of the Netherlands recently used its Cessna Citation II research aircraft to perform for the first time a new approach and landing procedure at Eelde airport in the north-east […]
In-flight aircraft refuelling can enable significant fuel savings and cut CO2 emissions. Recently, a series of ground-based experiments was conducted as part of the European research project RECREATE (REsearch on a CRuiser Enabled Air Transport Environment). One of the tools […]
An overview of NLR’s many contributions to the Clean Sky programme How to get a clear picture of aircraft noise? The Virtual Community Noise Simulator (VCNS) of the Dutch National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) is a unique aircraft-noise simulator that realistically […]
In late May, a team of NLR specialists concluded the final on-site integration tests of the upgrade of the Data Acquisition and Data Processing systems of the Indonesian Low Speed Tunnel (ILST) in Serpong, Indonesia. The work has been finalized […]