{"id":8098,"date":"2013-07-27T22:53:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T05:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/?p=8098"},"modified":"2013-07-27T22:53:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T05:53:29","slug":"eads-partners-open-electric-airplane-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/eads-partners-open-electric-airplane-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"EADS, Partners Open Electric Airplane Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"

The European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. (EADS), IABG \u2013 a company providing analysis and testing for aerospace companies, and Siemens AG are collaborating along with educational partners the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the Bundeswehr University Munich, the Munich University of Applied Sciences, Bauhaus Luftfahrt, and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to form the Ludwig Boelkow Campus consortium.<\/a><\/p>\n

Consortium partners have also signed a declaration of intent governing future cooperation between the newly founded Ludwig Boelkow Campus GmbH and the Munich Aerospace e.V., aerospace faculty.<\/p>\n

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Many of us think of this distinctive shape when we hear the name, “Boelkow”<\/p><\/div>\n

Named after an aerodynamicist who worked under Antony Fokker, and who headed development of the Messerschmidt ME-262 jet fighter in WWII, the campus will integrate multiple academic \u00a0disciplines and industries in work designed to foster creative new ways of designing, building, and powering aircraft.<\/p>\n

With a primary goal to research areas of future flight, the campus and its industrial partners will help further development of next-generation European aircraft.\u00a0 As explained by EADS, projects reflect a great many of the ideas explored by the CAFE Foundation:<\/p>\n