Honeywell and Curtiss-Wright are making fast progress in bringing ‘black box in the sky’ functionality to their nextgen flight recorders.

New Cockpit Voice Recorder receives EASA Technical Standard Order.

Rugged data storage systems for aerospace and defense applications are moving to new data interfaces for unparalleled speed and capacity, while trusted computing and information security are driving trends.

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

Imaging flight recorder, cockpit area camera, cockpit area microphone, and imaging cockpit control elements receive EASA Technical Standard Order.

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

Today’s embedded-system designers have a great variety of processor types to select from, with FPGAs and GPUs adding their own various advantages and disadvantages for consideration in contrast to the more familiar CPUs.

RedHawk Linux RTOS validated for use with DuraCOR 312, rugged COTS mission computer integrating NVIDIA® Jetson TX2i