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We’re pleased to announce a key moment in the Arion 5 project! Whilst Arion 4 continue with the construction stages of their hand trike, our new crop of student engineers have been busy all year focusing on all aspects of highspeed tricycle design. But no trike is fast without a […]

Arion 5: We’re on our way!

18 Apr, 2018 in ARION 5 / Riders / Testing / Uncategorized by M H

The past few weeks the team has been quite busy on the manufacturing of the first ARION4 component, the rider’s seat. It started with the manufacturing of the seat mould which was machined out in shape from a block of tooling board using CNC technology at the School of Engineering […]

ARION4 1st Component Manufacturing

21 Mar, 2018 in ARION4 / Build / Ethos by M H

Today, the ULV Team went to Sigmatex’s state of the art facility in Runcorn to pick up a 100m roll of 88 gsm material, ideal for our needs. This carbon fibre will be used to create the aerodynamic fairing of the ARION2, making it extremely lightweight. The fairing is […]

Trip To Sigmatex

19 Nov, 2015 in Sponsors by M H

On the 4th and 5th of November, the ULV Team attended the Advanced Engineering Show as part of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult stand. HVM Catapult aims to catalyse future growth and success of manufacturing success in the UK, and is composed of 7 technology and innovation centres around the country. The AES […]

ULV Team at the Advanced Engineering Show

6 Nov, 2015 in History / Sponsors by M H