After producing the first nose… we’ve produced a second and a third. All three were composed out of different materials. The first one was entirely made out of carbon, the second was made out of carbon covered with Twaron® aramides and the third was made out of an hybrid carbon- Twaron® aramide fibre. Besides that they all looked a little different, we believed that they also would react different upon a crash situation.

To test which one will be the best during a crash, we took the noses to Corus in IJmuiden. Corus is a huge distributor of steel products and in their facility in Ijmuiden they know how to crash a crash nose. While some of our team members received an impressive tour of the IJmuiden facility, other team members went to the crash test fixture. Together with Corus personnel they tested the impact attenuator of these pretty shiny noses, who became a little less pretty and shiny.