Flight testing in the Netherlands, an overview

This report gives an overview of the flight test activities and capabilities in The Netherlands. A general description of the flight test programs of the last decades with civil and military aircraft, helicopters and research aircraft will be given. Some of the highlights of the more recent programs will be presented, i.e. the type certification...

Final report on a research facility for critical point phenomena in microgravity

A conceptual design for a research facility for critical point phenomena in Spacelab's microgravity environment is presented. In the critical point facility (CPF) four experiments can be performed in parallel. The CPF consists of five parts: four experiment units and a service module. The experiment units offer the user-provided (instrumented)...