DLR Portal - Göttingen

Trick gives helicopters more 'puff' – DLR tests the influence on airflow when blowing air out of rotor blades

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:00:00 +0100

Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Göttingen have discovered a way to make helicopters more manoeuvrable.

Migratory locusts in a wind tunnel

Wed, 02 May 2012 08:50:00 +0200

Insects are capable of masterful feats of flying; whenever they witness locusts flying long distances or moths hovering over flowers, aerodynamicists can only marvel.

Helicopters set to become more manoeuvrable - using humpback whales as the prototype

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:20:00 +0100

Modern helicopters could be significantly faster and more manoeuvrable - if aerodynamics did not impose limitations on them. Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Göttingen have now discovered and flight-tested a way to increase manoeuvrability using an idea they got from observing humpback whales.

DLR Göttingen

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 11:00:00 +0100

The main activities of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) sites Göttingen and Braunschweig are aviation and traffic engineering. DLR Göttingen employs more than 400 experts in the foundation- and application-oriented field of aviation research.