CTA commitment to Equal Treatment and Opportunities febrero 1, 2022

CTA is committed to Equal Treatment and Opportunities, as is reflected in its Management Policy. To this end, it has had an Equality Plan in place since 2011. Prior to the preparation and implementation of this plan, an initial diagnosis was carried out to determine the current situation of the organisation, from technical positions through to members of the Board of Trustees. Based on this analysis, the Equality Plan was drafted to address the following areas: Commitment to Equality, Status of Women and Men in the Company, Access to the Company, Continuous Training, Promotion and Professional Development, Remuneration Policy, Organisation of Working Time and Work-Life Balance and Occupational Health.

Within each area, different actions have been developed with the aim of promoting a culture of equality among all the people working at CTA. A monitoring system using indicators has allowed us to ascertain the degree of implementation of these actions and broaden the scope of the commitment the Company assumed more than ten years ago now.

The Board of Trustees of the CTA Foundation has been equipped with the resources it needs to improve in all these areas on a daily basis and implement actions to ensure that Equality remains one of the key values of both our company and all the people who work at CTA.

Development and commissioning of the new centrifugal test bench septiembre 3, 2021

Completion of the tests for the horizontal tailplane of the Embraer E2 febrero 3, 2021

The last certification test for the horizontal tailplane of the Embraer ERJ190-300/400 E2 was recently completed. This final static residual resistance test completes the campaign for validation of the behaviour of this aeronautical component for Aernnova.

During this campaign initiated in November 2015, a test bench was designed and manufactured with the aim of reproducing the real conditions this structure undergoes, applying fatigue cycles (3 DSG) to check its behaviour.

The testing phase over the course of February 2017 involved use of 8 hydraulic actuators and 13 force transducers to apply and monitor the test loads. 12 displacement transducers and a total of more than 600 instrumentation channels were used to measure deformations at specific points of the structure.

In total, the different tests and their corresponding inspection phases have taken three years to complete, including fatigue campaigns and static tests in different configurations.

The test specimens satisfactorily completed the entire campaign.

COVID-19 – CTA Information marzo 23, 2020

At CTA, we are committed to the prevention and safety of all and due to the current COVID-19 outbreak that is spreading rapidly across the country, CTA management has decided to adopt some preventive measures.

According to the instructions and recommendations given by the Spainsh Government and Health Authorities, the activity of our teams has been reorganized increasing to the maximum teleworking, hygienic measures and avoiding face-to-face interaction but minimizing the impact on CTA activity in order to ensure the same efficient response requested by our customers.

We hope that we quickly overcome this challenge.

CTA participates in the validation of flow control actuators for aircraft febrero 6, 2020

CTA is working together with Lortek on the Flowcaash project under the European Commission’s Clean Sky II Initiative. The aim of this project during 2018-2020 is to manufacture and validate titanium-aluminium flow control actuators made using additive manufacturing techniques (SLM) to increase lift in aircraft to be installed with next-generation low-emission engines.

CTA is focusing on the aerodynamic tests to validate the production process, along with tests in aggressive environments (vibration, ice, rain, dust and sand, etc.).

Project website: https://www.flowcaash.eu/

Development of the drop test bench for helicopter fuel tanks octubre 3, 2019

As part of the certification programme for the H160 manufactured by Airbus Helicopters, CTA has developed an innovative test bench to perform drop tests of helicopter fuel tanks. This test bench allows these types of tests to be carried out in accordance with the specifications set out in CS27.952(a).

The test bench allows the specimen to be guided during the drop while a pneumatic system attached to the tank releases it, causing it to drop against a concrete block on the laboratory floor. The entire test is recorded on four high-speed cameras allowing precise measurement of both the angle and speed at the moment of impact.

End of the vibration testing campaign for mirror assembly of the MTG programme abril 16, 2019

Last March, CTA completed the vibration testing campaign for IRS EQM (Infrared Sounder Engineering Qualification Model) Mirror Assembly under the MTG programme developed by LIDAX.

During this campaign, CTA tested 4 models which were subjected to random vibration levels ranging from 20 to 2,000 Hz. Due to the cleanliness requirements of these types of space specimens, the tests were carried out in an ISO 5  clean room installed on a vibration bench.

This campaign is a continuation of the STM tests begun in 2018 and it is expected to continue in May of this year with tests for the PFM models

End of the test campaign for the Embraer KC-390 noviembre 15, 2018

The final test for certification of the rudder of the KC-390 was completed in September 2018. This load test completed the series of tests of the flight control surfaces of this aircraft marketed by Embraer: the flaps, ailerons and tailplane. All three components were developed by Aernnova.

This campaign which has been active since October 2015 involved the use of 20 actuators and force transducers to apply test loads, displacement transducers, multiaxial transducers to measure reactions and a total of more than 1,800 instrumentation channels to measure deformations at specific points of the different structures.

In total, the campaign consisted of nearly 3 years of different tests, including fatigue tests and static tests in different configurations.

The test specimens satisfactorily completed the entire campaign.

CTA and STAR3 will develop structural components for launchers and satellites julio 30, 2018

STAR3 Technology Alliance, the space alliance formed by CTA, CATEC and TECNALIA will develop novel structural components for launchers and satellites using additive manufacturing technologies.

This project, the first one contracted for ESA within GSTP programme, will allow CTA to show the space industry the test capacities and capabilities achieved in the past.

CTA will validate the components at Miñano facilities where is able to perform tests in vibration, structural, pyroshock and vacuum domain to fulfil the testing requirements for aerospace industry.

E2 Horizontal tailplane fatigue tests enero 19, 2018

CTA’s Miñano facilities have been carrying out the fatigue tests for Aernnova on the horizontal tailplane of the ERJ190-E2 / ERJ195-E2 aircraft marketed by the Brazilian company Embraer.

These tests involve application of more than 3 million load cycles using 6 actuators with 48 application points to simulate the aerodynamic loads the component would undergo when in use.

The monitoring of these tests required use of over 600 strain gauges distributed across the specimen and 11 load cells to control the loads applied by each actuator and measure the reactions at certain points, along with 12 displacement sensors.

Following completion of the fatigue tests, static tests of residual loads will be performed using two additional actuators and the corresponding load cells.