Airborne is one of the partners the European Clean Sky technology development programme. The goal in this 7 year - 800 million Euro program is to develop technologies for "greening the aircraft": 40% reduction in CO2 emission and 50% noise reduction.

Airborne is involved in two projects: Smart Fixed Wing Aircraft (SFWA) and Green Rotorcraft (GRC). In the SFWA, we are working on integration of fluidic synthetic jet actuators in the composite structure for active flow control, and on new technologies for high-lift devices. In GRC, our part is to develop improved injection production technology to produce smart rotor blades and to develop an industrialised method to integrate optical fibre sensors in the blade.

For more information, please contact Marcus Kremers , Director Technology Airborne Composite B.V.

Check here for more information at the Agentschap NL, the innovation agency of the Dutch Ministery of Economic Affairs.