Offshore trials »

In May 2013 Tocardo deployed its tidal turbine, equipped with blades made by Airborne Marine, in the Dutch Waddensea for a full scale offshore test and calibration program. The turbine was attached to a barge and was taken to the Marsdiep, known for its strong tidal currents. The motorized barge...

Published: 2013-06-10 02:13 pm

Contract for Astrium Satellite panels »

In Q1 of 2013, Airborne Aerospace won the contract for the manufacturing of the solar array substrate panels for a small communication satellite. The contract was awarded by Astrium, one of the two largest satellite-building companies in Europe. Astrium, a wholly owned subsidiary of EADS, an EADS...

Published: 2013-06-05 08:10 am

RTM Cowl for Open Rotor Engine »

RTM Cowl for Open Rotor Engine Aircelle, ASCAMM, AMADE and Airborne have started a project within the Cleansky programme with the goal to design and produce CFRP rotating cowls around the SAGE2 Demonstrator Engine of SNECMA. The LIGHT COWLS project started in March 2013 and will run for more...

Published: 2013-05-13 06:57 am

Dutch Aerospace industry and Agentschap NL enter the French market »

The Netherlands/ Zoetermeer, 26 April 2013 Agentschap NL, a division of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs that supports sustainable joint initiatives in developing countries and emerging markets, and the Aerospace Strategy Group France signed an alliance within the program Partners for...

Published: 2013-04-26 12:55 pm

Delivery of 7 Nautricity RTM performance blades for EMEC test turbine »

Delivery of  7 Nautricity RTM performance blades for EMEC test turbine  Airborne Marine is proud to announce that the Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) procedure of the seven Nautricity tidal blades was concluded positively early this month  together with Nautricity Ltd. Airborne Marine will...

Published: 2013-03-21 10:05 am

Commercial RTM Performance Blades for Tocardo »

Commercial RTM Performance blades  Airborne Marine has manufactured the first commercial RTM performance blades for Tocardo, a leading producer of tidal and free-flow water turbines. The blades will be shipped to the Tocardo assembly site in Den Oever, The Netherlands.The RTM performance blades...

Published: 2013-02-14 08:33 am

“Closed mould RTM Performance Blades” for Tocardo Sea Trials  »

“Closed mould RTM Performance Blades” for Tocardo Sea Trials  Airborne Marine is proud to announce to have manufactured  two closed mould RTM performance blades for the sea trials  Tocardo is intending to perform shortly.The production of the sea trial blades is a major step towards the...

Published: 2012-11-22 12:00 am

Starting-up RTM Tidal blade manufacturing »

Airborne Marine is proud to announce the first two successfully manufactured 1-shot RTM Tidal blades with embedded insert technology. These first two blades are part of a series of seven 4 metre blades for the Nautricity 250KW test turbine, shortly to be deployed at the EMEC test site in Scotland....

Published: 2012-11-22 12:00 am

Airborne signs MoU for MRO on Cougar helicopters »

Airborne signs MoU for MRO on Cougar helicopters Fokker Services and partners Terma, Verebus Engineering and Airborne Aerospace signed a MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) for the maintenance of the Dutch Cougar helicopter fleet during the NIDV conference on 15 November 2012. By using the unique...

Published: 2012-11-22 12:00 am

Airborne panels successfully launched on SPOT-6 satellite  »

Airborne panels successfully launched on SPOT-6 satellite In September, solar panels substrates from Airborne Composites have been deployed on the SPOT-6 satellite and successfully launched. SPOT-6 is the first satellite in the new family of AS250 commercial optical platforms from EADS Astrium....

Published: 2012-10-09 12:00 am