We are very pleased to have successfully completed the first test campaign with an aeroelastic wing model in the DNW-HST, using the recently commissioned gust generator.
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When German-Dutch Wind Tunnels was founded on June 30, 1976, its Large Low-Speed Facility at Marknesse in the Netherlands was given a working life of 20 years.
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What an incredible day at DNW! 20 June 2026, during our Open Day, we had the pleasure of welcoming more than 1,500 visitors.
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The German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW) marked a significant milestone on 18 June 2026, celebrating 50 years of groundbreaking research and technological advancements in various industries, including aerospace, automotive, and sports.
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DNW has successfully hosted a experimental campaign on an innovative helicopter rotor system featuring active blade twisting.
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We are proud to have contributed to Beyond Aero's first wind tunnel test campaign at our facilities.
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On Friday 16 January, NLR and DNW hosted a visit of the Secretary General of the Ministry of Economic Affairs Mr. Sandor Gaastra in Marknesse.
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Recently a group of students from the Librae Network, a community of female students in STEM visited DNW and NLR.
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On 14 November, Flevoland's government officials and crisis partners gathered for the annual Government Officials Day. They discussed their roles in emergency situations and how they can support each other in the event of a crisis.
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On October 1st, DNW together with NLR visited ATR in Toulouse as part of a delegation of 30 companies and institutions, coinciding with the working visit of Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands to Toulouse.
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Friday 20 June, the BDO committee of the Senate (Eerste Kamer der Staten-Generaal) visited NLR and DNW in Marknesse. This committee prepares legislative proposals in the areas of foreign affairs, defence and development co-operations. During the visit, various topics were discussed, such as the deployment of satellites and drones, the use of lightweight composite materials and hydrogen applications.
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The SE²A Cluster of Excellence for Sustainable Aviation at the Technical University of Braunschweig claims to have succeeded in making aircraft wings more aerodynamically efficient. According to a press release from the Technical University of Braunschweig, the use of specially developed, 3D-printed suction panels has stabilised and optimised the boundary layer – the area of airflow immediately adjacent to the wing.
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It gives us great pleasure to announce that Holger Mai is appointed as Director Germany of DNW as per 01 June 2025. The current Director Andreas Bergmann retired on 31 May 2025. For a good transition, Holger already joined DNW on 1 April 2025.
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The German-Dutch Wind Tunnels - DNW is proud to announce that they are this year’s winner of the Automotive Testing Technology International Awards in the category Facility of the Year.
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We're excited to share the VentoFoil XL project, co-funded by the European Union.
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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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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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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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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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The power of a racecar in the volume of a cookie jar – German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW) is proud to announce that experimental testing of our Electrically Powered engine Simulator (EPS) is scheduled for the end of this year.
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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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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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In April, Lilium continued testing their world’s first all-electric vertical take-off and landing jet at DNW-LLF.
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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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A wind tunnel test for an Ultra-High Bypass Ratio turbofan inlet at off-design flow conditions was performed at the DNW-LLF in September last year.
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New 4-stage fan, new data-acquisition system, improved Mach control and many new faces.
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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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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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At our low speed facility DNW-NWB in Braunschweig the aerodynamic investigation of the large scale DISPROP wind tunnel model, built by our project partners, has just been completed. The aeroacoustic measurement campaign in the open test section of DNW-NWB will continue in August and September 2023.
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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.
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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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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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This month NLR AVVA executed airflow measurements on a ship model in the DNW-NWB in Braunschweig. Landing a helicopter on a moving ship at sea is a very demanding task. To guarantee safety and maximum operational capabilities, Ship-Helicopter Operational Limitations (SHOL) are essential.
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On 09 November 2022, most DNW Advisory Committee members could finally meet again in person after Covid.
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On 28 September 2022, the supervisory Board of Royal NLR visited DNW for a meeting with NLR. The supervisory board members advise and supervise the work of the executive board.
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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…
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Last month, within the UHURA project, the DLR-F15LS-LLE wind tunnel model was successfully tested in the DNW-LLF. This complex wind tunnel model is equipped with a dynamically deploying and retracting Krueger leading edge high-lift device.
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On 30 March 2022, the maiden flight of a scaled version of a single-aisle aircraft, known as the Scaled Flight Demonstrator (SFD), took place. The flight took place in Deelen (NL) and lasted 9 minutes, achieving a height of 400 meters (1,400 feet).
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On 08 April 2022 Mr. Daniel Koerhuis, member of Parliament responsible for aviation, visited NLR and DNW. At DNW, Mr.
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Mia wrote the winning thesis during her third-year internship at DNW. The assignment focused on improving the Heyson’s wall interference methodology and enhancing it with present day aircraft configurations.
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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).
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On 26 October 2021 the Mayor and councilors of the municipality of Noord Oost Polder visited NLR and DNW. During a presentation they were informed by NLR’s CFO Mr.
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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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The Police have indicated to investigate whether the Centre for Enforcement and Mobility can be moved from Lelystad to the MITC Marknesse and, together with NLR, DNW and RDW, build the innovative knowledge and test centre in the field of smart mobility and infrastructure.
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On 11 June 2021, a delegation of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy visited the Large Low-Speed Facility LLF of DNW during an introductory site visit hosted by…
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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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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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It is with great sadness and deep regret that we received the news of the passing of our director Christophe Hermans on Sunday 24 January 2021.
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Following our previous work on the visualization of aerosols in July, DNW has participated in an episode of the Topdoks TV programme that aimed to show the effectiveness of different mouth masks.
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On 02 December 2020, Director Christophe Hermans was a ‘guest’ on a radio show of Omroep Flevoland. The subject of this broadcast was “high speed”.
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In September 2020, the German Aerospace Center DLR celebrated the forty years anniversary its formal cooperation with the Chinese Aeronautical Establishment CAE.
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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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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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The intelligent lockdown is gradually being lifted by the authorities.
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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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Propulsion integration is becoming increasingly important as new aircraft concepts attempting to reduce emissions and noise receive more and more attention.
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Although our customers come mainly from the aerospace industry, we also provide test capabilities for sport aerodynamics.
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Director of DNW Christophe Hermans was one of the key industrial partners in BLADE to attend the ceremony.
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The aircraft manufacturer Embraer, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR) and German–Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW) have succeeded in testing an innovative method for examining the safety of future aircraft. In another first, they have been able to analyze the flutter behavior of a wing in real time.
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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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Due to renewed need for testing in the supersonic regime, DNW decided to bring the maintenance level of the SST back up to the testing requirements.
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The Chinese Aeronautical Establishment CAE and DNW have been engaged in informal and formal cooperative research for some time now.
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On 12 October 2017, at the 40th Panel Business Meeting of the Applied Vehicle Technology Panel of the NATO in Utrecht, the AVT Panel Young Contributor Award was bestowed on…
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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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At this symposium - at the same time being a farewell to director Georg Eitelberg - a number of specialists in aeronautics will elaborate their views on aerodynamic disciplines.
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The Chinese Aeronautical Establishment CAE, the Netherlands Aerospace Center NLR and the German-Dutch Wind Tunnels DNW have reinforced and extended bilateral agreements on aeronautical R&D at the Paris Air Show…
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DNW has successfully developed a non-contact, accurate, reliable, non-intrusive measurement technique to precisely capture in real-time the dynamics and trajectory of objects during testing of wind tunnel models.
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On 07 and 08 September 2016 the 2nd Polish-Brazilian Conference on Science and Technology was organized by the Polish Institute of Aviation ILOT in Warsaw.
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Vliegtuigfabrikant Airbus was lang de grootste klant van German-Dutch Wind Tunnels.
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Today, the Netherlands and Germany celebrate 40 years of collaboration in aeronautical research at the DNW in the Netherlands (Marknesse).
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On 07 December 2015, King Willem Alexander of the Netherlands paid a working visit to the large low-speed wind tunnel of DNW, the LLF.
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On Wednesday 29 October 2014 the AVIC Aerodynamic Research Institute (ARI) and the German-Dutch Wind tunnels (DNW) signed a Memorandum of Agreement on cooperation on several subjects
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DNW, founded and jointly owned by DLR and NLR, is the operator of a globally renowned group of wind tunnels in Germany...
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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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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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The DNW High Speed wind Tunnel HST is a closed-circuit, pressurized transonic facility used by industry to support the development of new aircraft and launch vehicles at close to actual…
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In the framework of a Dutch trade mission under the ministerial responsibility of the Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade Mw.
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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.
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During the Dutch Trade Mission to Brazil (19 to 23 November 2012), the German-Dutch Wind Tunnels DNW and EMBRAER signed a Memorandum of Understanding.
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It gives us great pleasure to announce that Christophe Hermans took up his position as Deputy Director of DNW effective 01 April 2012 after the retirement of Cor Joosen.
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On the 15th of June 2011 Mr. Jin Zhuanlong, President of Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) paid a visit to DNW in Amsterdam.
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