Simona
Welcome to the International Research Institute for Simulation, Motion and Navigation (SIMONA).
SIMONA is part of the Delft University of Technology and operates an advanced 6-DOF research flight simulator which was designed and built by several groups within the University, in cooperation with partners from government and industry. Read more on the organisation of SIMONA and the simulator it operates.
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Workshop on Revolutionary Aircraft for Quiet Communities
01 November 2007July 2007
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Aerospace Industries Association of Canada
01 November 2007October 2007
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AIAA Congress “Guidance, navigation and control”
01 November 2007August 2007
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Housing CleanEra
04 July 2007July 2007
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Distributed simulation exercise successful
28 March 2007A day before the SIMONA symposium "Fidelity in Motion" is held, co-organizer NLR and the SIMONA Research Simulator cooperated in a distributed simulation exercise. Demonstrating the problems and possible solutions of converging runways operations, a number of NLR simulators were linked to the SRS. Both NARSIM Tower and NARSIM Radar were used to control aircraft landing on runways 06 and 36R of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. With NLR's GRACE simulator making a go-around on runway 06, the SRS also performed a simultaneous go-around on runway 36R. The two simulated aircraft were then successfully separated and a conflict was avoided. In the future the developed distributed simulation environment will be further used for studies where multiple aircraft and ATC simulators of high fidelity are called for.
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MarsFly Graduation Opportunities
20 March 2007Students wanted for MarsFly project. The MarsFly project is a cooperation between Delft University of Technology, University of Wageningen and Ursa Minor. The goal of the project is to fly an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in the Mars atmosphere in addition to a Mars rover.
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Flight Dynamics demonstration started
13 February 2007For the second year running, all 3rd year students following the AE3-302 Flight Dynamics course are given the opportunity to fly in the SIMONA Research Simulator. During an individual 30 minute flight, students are shown basic flight maneuvers and characteristic eigenmotions of the simulated aircraft, the University's Cessna Citation II jet. The demonstration flight is concluded with an approach and landing at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The simulator's flight path can be followed live in Google Earth through this link.
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Open days for perspective students
25 October 2006Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th of October, Delft University organized the fall open days for perspective students. SIMONA was presented as one of the facilities of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering. A large number of students attended a presentation about the SIMONA Research Simulator, as well as a demonstration of a testflight on the simulator.
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