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26 Mar 2025

Eve Air Mobility successfully completed wind tunnel testing at DNW – LLF

In a video available at YouTube, Johann C. Bordais, the Eve Air Mobility CEO, Luiz Felipe R Valentini, CTO, and Edgard Takara , Wind Tunnel Testing Engineer at Embraer, explain how these tests refine aerodynamics, flight mechanics, structural loads, and aeroacoustics under Power-ON conditions. These insights contribute to refining our aircraft’s performance and maturity, advancing its development toward certification.

 

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27 Feb 2025

Visit KonKuk University and Kari

Beginning of February, DNW director Joost Hakkaart visited Korea together with the CEO of NLR Michel Peters to strengthen the existing 20-year relationships with key partners, including Korea Aerospace Industries…

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12 Dec 2024

World's First Test Facility for WLTP Testing of Larger Vehicles Now Open

Marknesse, Netherlands, 10 December 2024 – The German-Dutch Wind Tunnels - DNW is pleased to announce the opening of its state-of-the-art Automotive Test Section. This cutting-edge facility is the first of its kind in the world, enabling the accurate measurement of rolling and air resistance of larger vehicles in compliance with the European mandatory Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP).

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18 Nov 2024

Opening of DNW’s Automotive Test Section (ATS)

We are pleased to announce the official opening of the Automotive Test Section (ATS) at the German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW) in Marknesse. This exclusive event, taking place on Tuesday, December 10, 2024, will celebrate the latest expansion in DNW’s cutting-edge facilities. Participation in this event is by invitation only.

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11 Jul 2024

DNW powered by the sun

At Marknesse, NLR and HVC have developed a new, large solar park. The produced power is fed into the national grid using the DNW-LLF electrical infrastructure. On 08 July 2024, this largest solar park in the Netherlands was officially opened. This solar park is situated on the NLR/DNW terrain in Marknesse and has 74.000 solar panels with a capacity of 46MWp and is able to supply 43-milion kilowatt solar power.

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10 Jul 2024

Launch Ariane 6

DNW is proud to have been able to contribute to a successful and safe launch of the ESA’s Ariane 6 rocket. In 2017, a wind tunnel model designed and manufactured by NLR was tested in the DNW-HST and DNW-SST. The goal of these tests was to characterize the steady and unsteady loads on the total launcher and on the various launcher elements (e.g. boosters) during the transonic and supersonic flight phases. 

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5 Apr 2024

Visit US Ambassador

The US Ambassador, Shefali Razdan Duggal, recently visited DNW and NLR in Marknesse as part as her introductory visit to Flevoland.

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1 Dec 2023

ADD and DNW sign MoU

On 22 November 2023 the Vice President of the South Korean Agency for Defence Development, ADD visited the DNW HST and SST facilities in Amsterdam.

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4 May 2023

Lilium Jet enters powered test campaign at DNW

Developer of the first all-electric vertical take-off and landing jet, today announced the start of wind tunnel testing on a complete 1 to 2.5 scale (40% size) Lilium Jet model, including working engines and flap actuators, at the German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW) facility in Marknesse, Netherlands. 

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28 Mar 2023

Article Aerospace Testing International

The latest issue of Aerospace Testing International contains an interview with DNW directors Andreas Bergmann and Joost Hakkaart about the current and future developments at DNW. 
To read the article, click here. 

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7 Feb 2023

Visit Airbus Defence and Space

The DNW directors Joost Hakkaart and Andreas Bergmann would like to thank Airbus Defence and Space for hosting a wonderful visit of an NLR/DNW delegation to their facility in Manching on 02 February 2023. 

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30 Jan 2023

DNW guest lecture at TU Delft

On 12 January, our Head Projects and Customer Relation Management, Koen Artois, gave a guest lecture at the TU Delft reinforcing the already good relationship between the university and DNW.

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16 Jun 2022

Low-noise propellers tested at DNW

After pre-tests in the low speed wind tunnel LST, aerodynamic and aero-acoustic validation of low-noise propellers developed within the IRON project have been performed successfully at DNW-HST and LLF at…

ALVAR
9 Mar 2022

ALVAR Laminar Flow Control Wind Tunnel Test Completed

A major milestone within the Clean Sky 2 project ALVAR has been achieved by successfully completing wind tunnel testing in the DNW-LLF. The ALVAR project aims at demonstrating technology readiness for a novel suction skin structure, the tailored skin single duct (TSSD). 

Upgrade HST
4 Nov 2021

Phase 1 upgrade of the DNW-HST completed!

To improve both flow quality and test productivity, three major components of our large transonic wind tunnel were upgraded. The next phase is the upgrade to further enlarge the Ma-AoA envelope. 

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30 Apr 2021

Joost Hakkaart Director of DNW

It is our pleasure to announce that as per 01 May 2021 Joost Hakkaart has been appointed director of DNW. Together with Andreas Bergmann, DLR director of DNW, they form the management of DNW.

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28 Apr 2021

DNW coordinating Horizon 2020 NIFTI R&I programme

NIFTI (Non-Intrusive Flow distortion measurements within a Turbofan Intake) is an action launched under Grant Agreement 864911 of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. NIFTI aims to advance the state of the art in non-intrusive inlet flow distortion measurements for modern, civil aero-engines.

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23 Sept 2020

Interview with Christophe Hermans

On 12 September 2020, Director Christophe Hermans was interviewed by Ronald ter Voert in his broadcast EASY FM Tech & Innovatie” about his view of technical developments and innovative sustainability projects.

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26 Aug 2020

Aerodynamic Eco Competition 2020

Three hydrogen endurance racing teams, Eco-Runner Team Delft, HAN Hydromotive, and Green Team Twente competed in our LST (Low-Speed Tunnel) to find out who has the most aerodynamically efficient design and looked for new insights to unlock further aerodynamic performance.

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26 Mar 2020

DNW Measures Corona Virus

DNW has taken measures to ensure the health and safety of its employees, whilst maintaining business continuity as far as possible and justified. DNW follows the guidelines of its parent institutes DLR & NLR and protocols of the German & Netherlands governmental agencies.

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9 Apr 2018

Andreas Bergmann Director of DNW

It gives us great pleasure to announce that Andreas Bergmann took up his position as Director of DNW. Andreas is the successor of Georg Eitelberg, who retired on 01 April 2018. The Management of DNW now consists of two Directors of equal standing, appointed by each one of the parent companies German Aerospace Center DLR and the Netherlands Aerospace Centre NLR.

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13 Nov 2017

Christophe Hermans President of CEAS

During the last General Assembly meeting of the Council of European Aerospace Societies CEAS, Christophe Hermans, Board of Trustee member on behalf of the Netherlands Aeronautical Society NVvL, was elected…

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3 Nov 2014

Press Release ESWIRP TNA

The ESWIRP project has been funded by the European Framework Programme 7 to support the integration of and access to research infrastructure of pan-European interest. It has significantly enhanced the interoperability of 3 key world-class aeronautical wind tunnels, and harmonised, improved and optimised the scientific access conditions thereto ...

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27 Oct 2014

Meeting 14 October 2014

On 14 October 2014 a meeting between the Chinese Aeronautical Establishment CAE, the Northwest Polytechnic University NPU, the DNW and the TU Delft took place.

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25 Apr 2013

Ground Simulation Symposium at DNW

On the occasion of the successful commissioning of the new moving belt in the DNW-LLF, an international symposium on ground proximity simulation was held on 25 and 26 April 2013.