Innovative Agrilight prototype presented at Hannover Messe

Innovative Agrilight prototype presented at Hannover Messe

Our MD team has done a great job - in mid-April we completed the prototype of our Agrilight project and we are proud of the result!

With a total weight of 795kg, we have achieved our goal of a weight saving of at least 400kg compared to the steel construction version - which was 1233kg.

The last few weeks in particular have often been a sweaty affair, but the efforts of the last few years and months have paid off, because the result is impressive. This would not have been possible without such a strong team, so a big thank you to everyone involved at MD Composites Technology and MD Flugzeugbau!
In addition, many thanks to the IFW of Leibniz Universität Hannover, the PuK of Clausthal University of Technology and KRONE Agriculture as project partners as well as Schill+Seilacher "Struktol" GmbH as resin supplier and consulting partner.
Above all, however, the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection for making the TTP LB possible.

Afterwards, we travelled to the Hanover Trade Fair, where this showcase project was given a stage in the Lightweight Construction Pavilion.

We were able to impress many visitors on site and hold numerous discussions in which we were able to explain our motivations and the implementation of lightweight construction in the steel-dominated agricultural machinery industry. We also learned that we should have used green paint more sparingly - because many visitors only realised that the frame is really a self-supporting fibre composite structure in which steel parts were used almost exclusively as connecting elements to surrounding components after haptic inspection.

We are looking forward to the final project phase and thus to the validation of our development: installation in a maize chopper and subsequent testing on a hydropulser test stand at the beginning of 2025.

 

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Training completed and now the next step ...

Training completed and now the next step ...

It is always a great pleasure! With Norman and Tjark, 2 more light aircraft builders are continuing the long line of light aircraft builders who have been successfully trained in our company over the last 30 years. As part of a small celebration, the management, together with Boris as one of the two people responsible for training the light aircraft technicians, took the opportunity to congratulate them on their excellent results in their final examinations.
We are particularly pleased that Norman and Tjark have decided to remain loyal to us as specialists and to continue the exciting journey together in the further development of the MD Group with its companies MD Flugzeugbau, MD Composites and our youngest baby MD Aircraft.

The result makes us all proud, because in addition to the motivation and willingness of the trainees themselves, it takes the right environment to allow them to experience the challenges of this great profession, to convey all the learning content and, above all, to ensure that the necessary problem-solving skills are learnt.

Together we have succeeded in all of this. Once again, our congratulations and best wishes to Tjark and Norman, and many thanks to the team of instructors and everyone else who, alongside Boris and Alexander, contributed to achieving such a great result.

EASA type-certificate for MD JS 3 RES granted

EASA type-certificate for MD JS 3 RES granted

We are happy to announce that the EASA has granted the type-certificate for the JSA MD 3 RES.
More information can be found on the EASA type-certificate data sheet TCDS_EASA_A_616_JS-MD_Single_Issue_06_1.pdf

Compatibility of career and family

Compatibility of career and family

Balancing work and family life....
... we were recently invited to take part in a lecture event with young students to discuss the challenges of setting up companies and developing them into successfully operating organisations.


It was fun to pass on experiences and talk about opportunities, risks and both good and bad decisions in this context.
In this context, the question of what contribution the compatibility of work and family can make to the success of a company came as no surprise.
In our opinion, it is a real asset for every company to create the conditions and specific offers for this: After all, workforces are becoming increasingly diverse and so the needs of individual employees are also very different, especially when it comes to balancing work and family life.
In our companies M&D Flugzeugbau GmbH & Co. KG and M&D Composite Technology GmbH, these requirements and programmes are in place.


✅ Hybrid working according to desire and need and not according to quota
✅ Ability to work flexibly in production
✅ Free emergency childcare if your own childcare is cancelled at short notice
✅ Permission and possibility to bring children to the company
✅ Our wage and salary model, supplemented by a qualification matrix, forms the basis of our promotion policy, which gives equal consideration to all genders


If there are other good solutions, I would like to learn about them and look forward to your feedback in the comments!

Greetings GMU

 

 

EASA issues STC for LS 4 Jet!

EASA issues STC for LS 4 Jet!

We have already reported here about the LS 4 Jet - now the EASA has issued the STC!
Potential customers please book your slot!

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