2. Airborne
• Design and Build of Composites
• Based on Technology Leadership
The Hague
The Netherlands
Girona
Spain

3. Innovation Circle
Know-how
Technology Research
Design engineering
Process engineering
Qualification
Production
Maintenance
Industrialisation

4. Airborne group
Airborne Airborne Airborne
Composites NL Composites ES Composite Tubulars
Airborne Technology Center

5. Facilities Airborne Composites NL
• Clean room (1000 m2), assembly (4000
m2)
• Ovens, autoclaves (largest 13.5 x 2.65 m)
• Winding machine (thermoset and
thermoplastic)
• Automatic prepreg cutters
• CNC milling machines (5-axis, 7 x 3.5 m)
• Laser projection
• Air-scan, 3-D laser tracker

6. Facilities Airborne Composites ES
• Workshop dedicated to specimen,
prototypes and small series
• Clean room (70 m2), assembly (200 m2)
• Autoclave (2 x 1,5 m):
– Working pressure up to 15 bars
– Temperature up to 300 degrees
• Automatic prepreg cutter
• Freezer for storage material
• Sample cutting machines (to be installed)
• C-scan & structural testing capabilities
available at AMADE (University)

7. Samples and structural panels - ACS
• Tier 1 to Airbus Toulouse, Tier 2 to Airbus
Madrid (via Applus)
• Sample types (1/2):
– Honeycomb core closing samples
– Skin restoration samples (structural repairs)
– Application of resin blocks around structural
panels and stringer samples
– Stiffened panels with the several skin – stringer
assembly techniques

8. Samples and structural panels - ACS
• Tier 1 to Airbus Toulouse, Tier 2 to Airbus
Madrid (via Applus)
• Sample types (2/2):
– Repair samples (wet lay-up and repair prepregs,
resin and adhesive bonded repairs)
– Tensile stepped / tapered joints test samples
– Single and double lap shear samples
– Fracture toughness (bonded joints) samples
– Flat wise tensile and sandwich flexure specimen