Largest Wind Turbine Blade Made in the U.S. Unveiled at NASA

Blade Dynamics, a supplier of wind turbine rotors, unveiled the longest blade manufactured in North America this summer at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility. The 255-foot long blade was manufactured at the Blade Dynamics factory located within the assembly facility.

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00:00:07 We're excited to recognize the success of one of our tenants for their innovation in advanced manufacturing. Today we're very excited. We do alot of great work here for SLS and Orion but we also have several government and also commercial tenants that support us here at Michoud and we are glad to have them here. One of the things we celebrate today is a 78 meter blade built by Blade Dynamics. So a very exciting time as we kind of roll out this new 78 meter blade. My name is Theo Botha. I was a co-founder of Blade Dynamics and I'm responsible for sales and marketing of the

00:01:07 company. I'm very proud today to be attending the launch of our 78 meter blade. This is the world's largest assembly Blade. Well, it's the largest blade ever made in the United States and two days from now on July 8th it's going to be shipping to the United Kingdom for structural testing. This is actually going to have the equivalent weight on the end of it to a VW Golf parked more than a kilometer away. It's incredible, this structure, and It's been a very proud day to share with my team the unveiling of this

00:01:46 technology.