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The Kiel-based three-mast schooner, “Thor Heyerdahl”, was launched in the Netherlands in 1930 as a freight motorsailer and was converted into a sailing ship with the rigging of a topsail schooner between 1979 and 1983. Since then it has served as a floating educational facility for teenagers and young adults.

During a later general overhaul and maintenance, VVG/HONSEL supported the under-deck outfitting with stainless steel blind rivets.

Thor Heyerdahl

The team of the Kiel University of Applied Sciences with students from the faculties of Electrical Engineering, Machine Engineering, Mechatronics, IT, Public Relations and Corporate Communications, Multimedia Production, Media Engineering, Economics, Business Administration, Industrial Engineering successfully develops, produces and operates modern racing cars for the FORMULA STUDENT.

We provide support, for example, by supplying tools and blind rivet nuts for the production of the cars.

Raceyard

At the Institute for Aerospace Technology at the University of Bremen, the Aquasonic II sounding rocket was developed as part of a student experimental rocket programme of the German Aerospace Centre and manufactured using HONSEL blind rivets.

The hybrid-powered missile that is over five metres in length and weighs 91 kg, was successfully launched in Kiruna, Sweden in March 2020 with a speed of Mach 1.2.

IAT – Institut für Aerospace-Technologie