Research

  • Multi-User Environment for Autonomous Vehicle Innovation (MUEAVI)

    This instrumented transport corridor runs through the middle of the campus and is used for the development of intelligent and autonomous vehicles. Sensors include lidar (laser scanners that can measure distance), radar that can detect pedestrians and cyclists at up to 200 metres and thermal imaging cameras.

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  • Off-road autonomous vehicle test area

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  • Digital air traffic control centre

    This facility replicates what can be seen through the windows of a traditional air traffic control tower via a live feed of panoramic views across the airfield using HD cameras and sensors.

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  • Aerospace Integration Research Centre (AIRC)

    A research centre looking at ways to integrate advance technologies to reduce the time from academic innovation to industrial application.

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  • National Beyond Visual Line of Sight Experimentation Corridor (NBEC)

    Stretching across Bedfordshire from Cranfield to partner Blue Bear’s headquarters in Oakley, NBEC provides a safe, managed environment for drone and unmanned aircraft experimentation. Drones will operate under BVLOS (beyond visual line of sight), as they become further integrated into controlled and uncontrolled airspace.

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  • DARTeC

  • National Flying Laboratory Centre (NFLC)

    Aeronautical students from around the world fly in the NFLC’s flying classroom each year as part of their degree courses. Known too as the ‘flying laboratory’, the plane also provides a viable alternative to flight test and research work using simulators, wind tunnels, or more expensive jet aircraft, often testing new parts and equipment for industry partners. The NFLC also has other light aircraft used to give students in-flight tutorials.

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  • Air Park (planned)

  • ‘Smart’ car park connect to MUEAVI

  • Intelligent Mobility Engineering Centre (IMEC)

    Data from MUEAVI is relayed into the Intelligent Mobility Engineering Centre (IMEC) control room. Within IMEC there are vehicle workshops, vehicle electrification and autonomous vehicle capabilities.

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  • Cranfield Aerospace Solutions Ltd

    Able to design, build and fly a new aircraft concept, with Civil Aviation Authority and European Aviation Safety Agency design and production organisation approvals.

  • Solar Power

    Clean, renewable energy for the airport flows from a solar power farm located on the other side of the airfield.

  • Multi-User Environment for Autonomous Vehicle Innovation (MUEAVI)

    This instrumented transport corridor runs through the middle of the campus and is used for the development of intelligent and autonomous vehicles. Sensors include lidar (laser scanners that can measure distance), radar that can detect pedestrians and cyclists at up to 200 metres and thermal imaging cameras.
    Link

  • Off-road autonomous vehicle test area
  • Digital air traffic control centre

    This facility replicates what can be seen through the windows of a traditional air traffic control tower via a live feed of panoramic views across the airfield using HD cameras and sensors.
    Link

  • Aerospace Integration Research Centre (AIRC)

    A research centre looking at ways to integrate advance technologies to reduce the time from academic innovation to industrial application.
    Link

  • National Beyond Visual Line of Sight Experimentation Corridor (NBEC)

    Stretching across Bedfordshire from Cranfield to partner Blue Bear’s headquarters in Oakley. NBEC provides a safe, managed environment for drone and unmanned aircraft experimentation. Drones will operate under BVLOS (beyond visual line of sight), as they become further integrated into controlled and uncontrolled airspace.
    Link

  • DARTeC
  • National Flying Laboratory Centre (NFLC)

    Aeronautical students from around the world fly in the NFLC’s flying classroom each year as part of their degree courses. Known too as the ‘flying laboratory’, the plane also provides a viable alternative to flight test and research work using simulators, wind tunnels, or more expensive jet aircraft, often testing new parts and equipment for industry partners. The NFLC also has other light aircraft used to give students in-flight tutorials.
    Link

  • Air Park (planned)
  • ‘Smart’ car park connect to MUEAVI
  • Intelligent Mobility Engineering Centre (IMEC)

    Data from MUEAVI is relayed into the Intelligent Mobility Engineering Centre (IMEC) control room. Within IMEC there are vehicle workshops, vehicle electrification and autonomous vehicle capabilities.
    Link

  • Cranfield Aerospace Solutions Ltd

    Able to design, build and fly a new aircraft concept, with Civil Aviation Authority and European Aviation Safety Agency design and production organisation approvals.

  • Solar Power

    Clean, renewable energy for the airport flows from a solar power farm located on the other side of the airfield.

 Digital Aviation Research and Technology Centre (DARTeC)

Cranfield University and its partners in the £67 million DARTeC will today announce the five primary research challenges that the centre will tackle when it opens in early 2020.

University airport research

Benefit from our unique combination of University airport and research.

Water ingestion testing

Cranfield Airport has a unique facility in the form of a floodable splash pit. This facility can be hired for testing of aircraft for certification.

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