16 September 2018
Students win world championship with high-tech recumbent bike
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Cyclist Lieke de Cock won the world championship for cycling in the Nevada desert in the US with a speed of 120 km/h.
13 September 2018
Novel flying robot mimics rapid insect flight
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A novel insect-inspired flying robot, developed by TU Delft researchers from the Micro Air Vehicle Laboratory (MAVLab), has been presented in Science (14 September 2018).
11 September 2018
Quiet propulsion: inaugural address Damiano Casalino
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On Friday 14 September Damiano Casalino, Full Professor and Chairholder of Aeroacoustics at the faculty, will give his inaugural address.
10 September 2018
Numbers for the new academic year
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The new academic year has started again.
21 August 2018
Success for AerGo
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Over the weekend, the AerGo team successfully tested their one-seater aircraft.
06 August 2018
Students from Delft and Amsterdam testing high-tech bicycle on F-16 runway
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The Human Power Team, a student project of the TU Delft and the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam, tested on Sunday 5 August their new aerodynamic bicycle: the VeloX 8.
27 July 2018
ERC Starting Grants for seven TU Delft researchers
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The European Research Council has awarded ERC Starting Grants to seven TU Delft researchers. The grants (1,5 million euros for a five-year programme) are intended to support scientists who are in the early stages of their career and have already produced excellent supervised work.
26 July 2018
Launch of TU Delft Student Rocket Fails
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On Thursday 26 July at 03:30 AM, students from the Delft University of Technology, made an attempt with a home-built rocket (Stratos III) to beat the European altitude record and reach the threshold of space. Twenty seconds after the launch the rocket disintegrated above the safety zone at sea. The team and INTA (Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial) are currently investigating the anomaly and the cause of the failed attempt.
12 July 2018
Students participate in Airnovation Summer Academy
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Two students from the Faculty joined the second Airbus Airnovation Summer Academy.
12 July 2018
Aerospace students finish top in Best Graduates competition
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Two master’s students from the Faculty have taken 2nd and 4th place.