Instrumentation

AeroTEC offers a full suite of instrumentation services to support your testing requirements. Our experience includes design, installation, calibration, test operation and post-test data management. Our instrumentation design and planning process defines required analog and digital measurements for data collection in the test plan and identifies each piece of instrumentation needed to collect that data.

Instrumentation

AeroTEC offers a full suite of instrumentation services to support your testing requirements. Our experience includes design, installation, calibration, test operation and post-test data management. Our instrumentation design and planning process defines required analog and digital measurements for data collection in the test plan and identifies each piece of instrumentation needed to collect that data.

Instrumentation Engineering & Design

Our experienced instrumentation engineers are responsible for designing, installing, and operating our flight test instrumentation systems. They have design familiarity with hardware from all major component manufacturers as well as hardware from National Instruments, United Electronic Industries, and Teletronics Technology Corporation. In additional to measurands, bus tie-ins, signal processing, and on-board data acquisition, the instrumentation engineering team designs and operates telemetry systems for required real-time and remote monitoring.

Instrumentation Technicians

AeroTEC’s instrumentation technicians are responsible for instrumentation fabrication, off-aircraft assembly and mockup, and on-aircraft installation and management. The technicians follow industry standard practices to ensure instrumentation systems and wiring are installed in a safe manner, meet wire, electromagnetic, and other protection requirements, and do not interfere with normal or test operation of the aircraft.

Instrumentation System Capabilities

  • ARINC-429, ARINC-717, ASCB-C/-D Databus monitoring
  • Precision air data (nose boom, trailing cone)
  • Accelerometers (low frequency and wideband)
  • Acoustics (sonic fatigue, cabin acoustics, FAR part 36)
  • Space positioning (DGPS, IRU)
  • Flight control positions and control forces
  • Engine parameters (analog, EEC, DEEC, FADEC, rakes)
  • Temperature, pressure, strain surveys
  • Gross weight, fuel quantity, C.G. tracking
  • Weather data telemetry
  • High speed HD video

Strain Gauge Instrumentation

We offer calibrated and compensated gage installations to test the following conditions:

  • Wing and empennage loads
  • Control forces
  • Load bearing access doors
  • Slat rails, flap tracks, actuators
  • Custom load cells
  • Special applications
  • High temp, composites, titanium
  • High frequency strain (vibe, fatigue)

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Of course, if you require testing in an area not mentioned above, our engineers will work with you to perform the appropriate test and gather the required data.

Contact us to learn more about how our instrumentation services can help your project take off.