USING ROTOR KIT BENTLY NEVADA FOR EXPERIMENTS WITH AEROSTATIC BEARINGS ŠIMEK, J. 1, KOZÁNEK, J. 2, STEIN, P., NEUSSER, Z. 3 1TECHLAB Ltd., Prague, 2Institute of Thermomechanics AS CR 3CTU in Prague, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Introduction Aerostatic bearings are used both for low and highspeed applications.