The Wright Angle

Flight test campaigns are essential for verifying and validating aircraft performance, safety, and reliability under real-world conditions.

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.