In the run-up to this year's JEC World's Leading Trade Fair for Composite Materials in Paris, the prototype of a sustainable house wall developed in the BMBF-funded DACCUSS-Pre project was honoured.

The Department of Flight Mechanics, Flight Control and Aeroelasticity (FMRA) of TU Berlin is developing a flight demonstrator with high aspect ratio transport aircraft configuration, TU-Flex. The DLR ...

What makes the Federal Aviation Research Programme (LuFo Klima) so successful and how can companies benefit from it? On this page we present some success stories. Carbon fibre reinforced plastics ...

Saving weight is an effective way of making aeroplanes more efficient and sustainable. Christian Garthaus is convinced of this. "For every kilo that we make a large commercial aircraft lighter, we ...

Carbon fibre reinforced plastics (CFRP) are amazing materials. They are strong and rigid, yet extremely light. No wonder they have been used in aviation for some time now. At Braunschweig-based ...

The demands placed on modern aircraft engines are high. They need to be powerful. And efficient. And, of course, as low in emissions as possible. To master this balancing act, Rolls-Royce is driving ...

At MTU Aero Engines in Munich, the fact that research and development are the basic prerequisites for efficient and sustainable aviation in the future is a matter of course. And the LuFo programme has ...

The fact that sensors in all kinds of devices collect all kinds of data is nothing new in itself. They have also been doing this in aircraft cabins for a long time. The functions of the coffee machine ...

Starting from January 1 st, 2024 Sabine Ardey has been appointed Director of the DLR Institute of Test and Simulation for Gas Turbines in Augsburg. She follows the founding director Prof. Dr.-Ing.

Im Vorfeld der diesjährigen JEC Weltleitmesse für Composite-Materialien in Paris ist der Prototyp einer nachhaltigen Hauswand ausgezeichnet worden, welche im BMBF-geförderten DACCUSS-Pre Projekt ...

On 4 January 2025, our colleague of many years, Prof Dr Robert Sausen, passed away unexpectedly at the age of just 69. Robert Sausen was born in Lissingen in the Eifel in 1955 and attended the Cusanus ...

Am 14. Januar 2025 um 20:09 Uhr MEZ (11:09 Uhr Ortszeit) ist der Kleinsatellit „InnoCube“ von der Vandenberg Space Force Base in Kalifornien gestartet. Er dient als Demonstrationsplattform für ...