This blog discusses why grounding in flight test applications is important, how ground loops form, how to ground multiple pieces of hardware, and ends with a summary of best practices.

The historic Artemis II flight’s successful mission marks the first time in over fifty years that we have travelled to the moon, and the furthest humans have ever been from Earth.

Designing the critical flight test instrumentation (FTI) systems that validate aircraft performance requires more than selecting the right sensors and data-processing hardware; it demands a rigorous approach to power management and thermal regulation.

In flight testing, understanding the stress and deformation experienced by the aircraft's fuselage, wings, and other components is vital to comprehending the aircraft's structural limits during a maneuver.

One of the most critical parts of flight testing is accurately measuring temperature.

Long before the widespread introduction of digital systems into aircraft in the 1970s, a dedicated wire or pipe connected everything in the cockpit.

In signal processing, sampling is the reduction of a continuous signal to a discrete signal. The sampling process itself can introduce visual effects that, if not understood, can mislead our analysis. The following explores some of these effects, as well as other visualization phenomena.

Analog data acquisition modules often form the backbone of a data acquisition system used on an aircraft during flight testing.

Today, flight test instrumentation (FTI) engineers install a variety of sensors throughout an aircraft to measure phenomena such as temperature, vibrations, and stress.

There is a legendary rock and roll tale where Van Halen used to demand a bowl of M&Ms backstage, with instructions that if any brown ones were included, the show was forfeit.

Demonstrations highlight complete FTI system capabilities, including secure recording, advanced data acquisition, and analytics software

People often hear about the search and recovery of flight recorders, popularly called "black boxes", after an aircraft incident. The information these contain have been pivotal in improving flight safety for everyone for decades, so it’s vital these flight recorders can survive almost any crash.