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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 103 - Seattle - February 2009
Agenda Location	4 GENERAL COMMITTEE TECHNICAL SESSION 4.2 Government Agencies Summary Report 4.2.5 German Aerospace Center 4.2.5.1 DLR
Title	DLR
Presenter	Klaus-Uwe Hahn
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Abstract	DLR is Germany's national research centre for aeronautics and space. Its extensive research and development work in aeronautics, space, transportation (including ground transportation) and energy is integrated into national and international cooperative ventures. DLR has about 5600 employees. It performs basic research, develops novel technologies, builds and operates large-scale test facilities, assumes management tasks, and trains junior scientists. The DLR Institute of Flight Systems is one of 29 DLR research institutes. It is located in the northern part of Germany at the Braunschweig airport. The institute operates large research facilities doing long term engineering research in the area of aeronautics at a level of pre-industrial development. In 2008 the institute was reorganized according to the strategic portfolio. The corresponding research activities are manifold. The presentation focuses on a few selected issues: - use of active stick for pilot assistance systems (increased level of information) - innovative rotor actuation technology (2 new innovative concepts: active twist, multi swash plate arrangement) - helicopter takeoff, low level flight, and landing on unprepared sites without external sight - research on future military transport aircraft (aspects of aerodynamics, the dropping of loads, ground manoeuvring, and overall system assessment) - support of A400M project - continued investigations on CAT II PIO (new flight tests are envisaged in the phase III of the SAIFE project) - flight control system design and integration for the SHEFEX II re-entry project (test of facetted external shapes) - recent and planned activities in the IMMUNE project (Intelligent Monitoring and Managing of UNexpected Events) - work on controlled flight into wake vortex - status of the planned simulation center in Braunschweig (build-up starting in 2010, the moving platform will provide interchangeability of cockpits of rotary and fixed wing aircraft)