Embraer and the Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre (Royal NLR) have signed an MoU for a potential strategic collaboration relating to aerospace research. The research areas include technology development and innovation in defence and space systems, general aviation, MRO, air mobility and sustainability.
The MoU also brings together the possibility to extend and increase long-term relations between Embraer and Royal NLR during the design and development of Embraer products, such as the E-Jets family and recent E2 models, the Legacy family of executive jets and the KC-390 Millennium multi-mission aircraft and programmes. In this context, the two companies are already discussing potential opportunities related to automated maintenance procedures.
In the last two decades, Embraer and Royal NLR have been working in close collaboration in research and development in such areas as new materials, flight-deck technology, system development and aerodynamics applied in the company’s leading-edge products including wind tunnel tests and advanced aero-elastic wind tunnel models.
