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Time to Move to 25-Hour Cockpit Voice Recorders

Time to Move to 25-Hour Cockpit Voice Recorders

Today, in the U.S., cockpit voice recorders (CVR) used on commercial aircraft are only required to capture and store two hours of audio information. After two hours, the most recent information is lost when the CVR, due its limited storage capacity, records over the previous cockpit conversations.

02/12/2024
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A Piece of the Wright Flyer Flies on Mars

NASA has announced the first flight of an aircraft on another planet, and a piece of the Wright brothers' history gets to ride along.

04/09/2021
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Build or Buy: The Strains of Designing a Flight Recorder

Designing a flight recorder (FR) that complies to international standards and crash survivability is very challenging and more expensive than buying one.

12/21/2020
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Types of Flight Recorders and How to Choose the Right One

Commercial airlines often use two types of flight recorders – a flight data recorder (FDR) and a cockpit voice recorder (CVR) – for different functionality.

12/01/2020
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A Monitoring Solution for Variable Frequency Power Generators

The Axon data acquisition system and the Axon AXN/ADC/408 module is the industry’s only solution to support 1.8 Msps sampling rates.

03/11/2019
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Meeting the Latest Regulations and Increasing Safety

New flight recorder system from Honeywell and Curtiss-Wright enhances safety and eases access to onboard data for operators.

02/07/2019
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Industry Experts at ITC 2018

Paul Cook, Russell Moore, and Patrick Quinn at the International Telemetering Conference (ITC) showcasing our expanded line of Aerospace Instrumentation.

11/07/2018
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Leaders in Innovation Since 1903

Discover why defense departments, commercial avionics companies, and system integrators around the world have relied on us to ensure mission success for more than 80 years.

10/18/2018