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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 […]

Within current composite part development and manufacturing processes, a disproportionally high effort is absorbed by finding optimal process parameters and meeting required qualities and tolerances of high performance light weight structures. In order to reduce the efforts in these processes, the European ECOMISE project is working on a breakthrough production system to enable next generation

The Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO/NL) responsible for innovative new solutions for the Dutch Ministry of Defence and Navy, recently initiated the re-mounting of the composite propeller blades made by Airborne Marine.

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Early 2013 Airborne signed a contract with Astrium in Ottobrun Germany for the manufacturing of solar panels for a new Earth observation satellite for an Asian end customer. The production started in March and the first batch of four panels was delivered to Astrium in June, according to plan and to satisfaction of the customer.

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Fokker Services and partners Terma, Verebus Engineering and Airborne 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 knowledge and capabilities of the aerospace cluster in the Netherlands a cost-efficient MRO solution is offered to the Dutch