PROTOTYPE & EXPERIMENTAL MANUFACTURING
GOING BEYOND BASICS WITH HIGH VALUE INSTRUMENTATION SERVICES
AeroTEC offers a full suite of instrumentation services to support your certification requirements. Our vast instrumentation experience includes design, installation, calibration, test operation and post-test data management.
PROTOTYPE & EXPERIMENTAL MANUFACTURING
GOING BEYOND BASICS WITH HIGH VALUE INSTRUMENTATION SERVICES
AeroTEC offers a full suite of instrumentation services to support your certification requirements. Our vast instrumentation experience includes design, installation, calibration, test operation and post-test data management.
INSTRUMENTATION SYSTEMS
At AeroTEC, we offer scalable instrumentation system solutions, ranging from stand-alone dataloggers to cabin display consoles with distributed network data acquisition. We measure and record data in all environments from simple cabin interiors to remote locations in the wing, engine and empennage. We are highly experienced in the setup of equipment from top equipment providers, including National Instruments, Teletronics Technology Company (TTC), Scanivalve, Quasonix and others.
We’ve used our expert setup and installation experience to provide optimized, cost-effective data collection in several common flight test areas:
- Performance
- Controllability and maneuverability
- Trim
- Stability
- Stalls
- Ground and water handling characteristics
- Vibration and buffeting
- High speed and out-of-trim characteristics
CAPABILITIES
- ARINC-429, ARINC-717, ASCB-C/-D Databus monitoring
- Precision air data (Nose boom, trailing cone)
- Trailing Cone (reel or static), Pitot boom manufacturing and installation
- Baseline flight testing for heavy modification (Pax to Freighter conversion)
- Rapid prototyping of components for experimental perspective (CNC machining capability, VF-4, VF 11, Route and Lathe)
- Data Acquisition station installation
- Harness manufacturing for the purpose of data acquisition
- 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
- Instrumentation Support for STC/ 14CFR part 23/25/33
- Pressure sensor, accel, strain gauging expert
- Gross weight, fuel quantity, C.G. tracking
- Ballasting system with transferable water tanks
- Telemetry Station in AFTC (2 Dedicated room capable of up to 30 engineers)
- Telemetry Trailer in order to support remote Flight testing (Up to 12 engineers)
- Weather data telemetry
- Full Dispatch office to support flight test vehicle
- FTE flight test station, design and installation (Multi aircraft type)
- High speed HD video
STRAIN 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)
TELEMETRY
CUSTOM, EFFICIENT, AND MOBILE TELEMETRY AND DATA SERVICE SOLUTIONS
AeroTEC provides the full range of telemetry and data services required during flight test. In addition to two telemetry rooms at our Moses Lake facility, we also operate a mobile telemetry trailer, enabling us to travel anywhere in North America where optimal flight test conditions exist.
WIND TUNNEL
WIND TUNNEL MODEL DESIGN
AeroTEC has extensive experience designing and building wind tunnel models of varying complexity to meet customer requirements. AeroTEC has designed and built models for development as well as certification testing. We work closely with our customers to provide solutions based on their testing and certification requirements, in addition to meeting tight budget and schedule goals. Our engineers implement a variety of materials and manufacturing processes to find the best balance between production cost, speed of manufacturing and accuracy through 3D printing & precision machining.
