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Acquiring and Telemetering Test Data from Hypersonic Platforms

Hypersonic platforms provide a challenge for flight test campaigns due to the application’s flight profiles and environments.

05/31/2024
A Unified Post-Test Analysis System for Flight Test Programs

A Unified Post-Test Analysis System for Flight Test Programs

Modern flight test programs generate huge amounts of data that require interrogation to investigate phenomena and ascertain program status as well as for use in final reporting.

12/15/2023
F-35 aircraft

Mandatory Parameters and Data Storage Requirements for Flight Data Recorders

What parametric data regulatory bodies require flight data recorders (FDR) to store, how data is processed for FDRs, and what features FDRs need to meet future needs.

07/20/2022
Flight Test Instrumentation Imaging Fundamentals

Flight Test Instrumentation Imaging Fundamentals

High-definition and high-speed images and video are essential for many flight test, space, and monitoring applications.

02/09/2021
Flight Test Instrumentation Solutions for Hypersonic Vehicles

Flight Test Instrumentation Solutions for Hypersonic Vehicles

This white paper discusses the challenges faced by hypersonic vehicles and proposes how flight test instrumentation (FTI) can aid in overcoming the challenges.

12/15/2020
Video Compression Quality and Performance for Airborne IP Cameras

Video Compression Quality and Performance for Airborne IP Cameras

There is increasing demand for high-quality HD video for airborne applications such as flight test instrumentation (FTI). Ideally, new HD cameras can reduce the weight and difficulty of installing wiring, and enable data to be coherently combined with images through built-in compression.

07/21/2020
The Wright Data: Enhancing Aircraft System Monitoring and Reducing Unscheduled Maintenance

The Wright Data: Enhancing Aircraft System Monitoring and Reducing Unscheduled Maintenance

This white paper discusses the problem of inefficient maintenance, lack of access to the right data, and how aircraft can be retrofitted with instrumentation to more quickly identify impending failures, rapidly repair them, and minimize aircraft downtime.

01/31/2020
Acquiring Test Data from Production Aircraft

Acquiring Test Data from Production Aircraft

Read how a Permanent Test Instrumentation Equipment (PTIE) can be installed onto an aircraft at production, or rapidly post-production as the need arises, to gather data in a minimally intrusive manner.

03/11/2019
Focusing on the Future of Airborne Imagery: IP Cameras

Focusing on the Future of Airborne Imagery: IP Cameras

Read this white paper to learn more about high-speed cameras and how they can provide users with the ability to conduct in-depth, quantitative analysis of their high-speed images.

03/11/2019
Miniaturizing Space COTS for Small Launcher Applications

Miniaturizing Space COTS for Small Launcher Applications

This white paper discusses the need for, and challenge of, compact space COTS systems for modern space applications, in particular for small launcher applications.

07/02/2018
Continued Airworthiness: Assuring a Lifetime of Safe Flight

Continued Airworthiness: Assuring a Lifetime of Safe Flight

Aircraft operators are keen to accurately assess and extend an aircraft’s life. This white paper presents some of the challenges associated with managing instrumentation, data and certification over the lifetime of a continued airworthiness program.

06/13/2018
The Need for Speed: Using Photogrammetric Analysis with High-Speed Cameras in Flight Testing Applications

The Need for Speed: Using Photogrammetric Analysis with High-Speed Cameras in Flight Testing

Flight test engineers encounter situations where they need to use photogrammetric analysis to determine how objects, surfaces, and mechanical systems perform. This white paper will discuss what is required for success.

04/09/2018