Germany’s DLR To Build VTOL Crash And Impact Test Center

CITE

DLR’s CITE facility will be able to reproduce both bird and drone strikes for research and certification.

Credit: DLR
German aerospace center DLR plans to build a new indoor facility for full-scale crash and impact testing of helicopters and electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The center is designed to support both research and certification testing. To be located in the Stuttgart area near DLR...
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