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Composite Tidal Blades engineered & manufactured by Airborne Composites/Marine Nautricity Ltd. , the Scottish 2nd generation tidal device developer, has her CoRMat tidal turbine successfully installed at the world’s largest tidal and wave test centre EMEC (the Orkneys) . After what felt as an endless winter season with incredible bad weather the Nautricty turbine has […]

On May 7th 2014 Nautricity’s 500kW CoRMaT, equipped with seven 1-shot RTM blades manufactured by Airborne Marine was successfully deployed at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney, UK. Airborne Marine congratulates Nautricity with this milestone.

Airborne, The Hague, 30 April 2014 Last Tuesday night the KazEOSat-1 satellite was successfully launched from Kourou Space Port on French Guiana on top of a Vega rocket. Airborne contributed to the building of this satellite by delivering the solar-array substrate panels as a subcontractor to Dutch Space. The KazEOSat-1 is an Earth Observation satellite

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text](4 April 2014) Sentinel-1A satellite was launched yesterday from the launch site in Kourou, French Guiana. While entering into its low earth-orbit, both solar-array wings were successfully deployed and directed to face towards the sun.

On April 3rd Airborne announced the set up of a legal presence in Cherbourg, France. This will take Airborne a step further in achieving the ambition to become the leading tidal blade engineering and manufacturing company in the world. Airborne strongly believes that a local facility supporting the tidal energy projects of for example Tidalys

In their efforts to stimulate economic growth, Dutch ministry of Economic Affairs is implementing new regulations to support ambitious companies to grow. Airborne was mentioned in Minister Henk Kamp’s letter to the Second Chamber that displays inspiring examples of ambitious companies with grow potential. Read the full report here and the news item here (Dutch only)

On 11 March 2014, Airborne Technology Centre and NLR signed a contract at the JEC Composites exhibition in Paris for opening an Airborne branch on the NLR premises and to intensify research cooperation. Dutch Minister Kamp of Economic Affairs visited the JEC as representative of the Netherlands and was present to witness the signing of

Airbus, Airborne, Fokker, TenCate and the other partners in the Dutch aerospace industry have signed the contract for the second Thermoplastic Affordable Primary Aircraft Structure (TAPAS2) project on January 21st, 2014. This project further builds on the first TAPAS project, and is a highly successful partnership for project-based innovation. The TAPAS consortium consists of companies

Nautricity Ltd., the Scottish based, next generation tidal device developer, is in the process of deploying their CoRMat tidal turbine at the world’s largest wave and tidal test centre, EMEC (the Orkneys). During the first half of 2013, the unique Hydro-Buoy system was tested, analysed and optimised. Also, the full scale CoRMaT Turbine, fitted with

Earlier this year, the Tocardo T100 turbine was tested in real life conditions in the Waddenzee, The Netherlands. Airborne Marine engineered and manufactured the blades for Tocardo’s T100 turbine. As expected, both the T100 turbine and composite blades demonstrated excellent performance. Reliability is of primary concern for both Tocardo and Airborne Marine, which has resulted