The German Aerospace Centre (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt - DLR) at Braunschweig will be starting construction of a new flight development simulator centre. The Helmholtz Association has approved financing for the amount of euro 8.9 million. A further euro 1 million will be made available by the state of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) as part of the Research Airport Project at the Technical University of Braunschweig (TU Braunschweig).