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Quickly Engineering a Flexible FTI Solution to Bring a Program Back on Track
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Quickly Engineering a Flexible FTI Solution to Bring a Program Back on Track

A helicopter company required a PCM combiner solution to complete a flight test instrumentation system.

06/12/2024
Successfully Instrumenting a Regional Jet for Flight Testing with a New Team
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Successfully Instrumenting a Regional Jet for Flight Testing with a New Team

A major aircraft manufacturer needed to plan and operate a flight test campaign for a new regional airliner. Read about the solution Curtiss-Wright developed here.

08/16/2017
Acra KAM-500 Helps to Breathe New Life into the Young Eagle
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Acra KAM-500 Helps to Breathe New Life into the Young Eagle

In order to guarantee a high level of measurement reliability, the Air Force Institute of Technology (ITWL) sought to have sensor redundancy, with multiple strain gauges at each load measurement location. Learn about the solution.

10/31/2015
Overcoming DAL-D Development Pitfalls with Modular Avionics COTS
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Overcoming DAL-D Development Pitfalls with Modular Avionics COTS

This case study describes a crash-protected recorder designed by Curtiss-Wright to interface to a Data Management Unit (DMU) for a mid-range commercial airliner that had schedule challenges and changing requirements.

05/27/2015
Rugged Data Acquisition for Missile and Captive Carry Platforms
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Rugged Data Acquisition for Missile and Captive Carry Platforms

Download the case study to learn about the data acquisition solution that met the space requirements for a missile testing application.

05/15/2015
Data Acquisition System (DAS) Upgrade on an RNLAF F-16BM
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Data Acquisition System (DAS) Upgrade on an RNLAF F-16BM

NLR (National Aerospace Laboratory) helped the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) instrument one of their 68 F-16’s with an upgrade data acquisition system designed around flexibility and minimizing space.

04/15/2015
Rugged Data Acquisition for Engine Test Applications
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Rugged Data Acquisition for Engine Test Applications

It is difficult to have a Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Data Acquisition System that fulfills both the robustness and channel density criteria - the Curtiss-Wright Acra KAM-500 fulfills both of these criteria using COTS equipment.

04/15/2015
Rugged Networked Data Acquisition, Recording & Telemetry for Experimental Re-entry Vehicle
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Rugged Networked Data Acquisition, Recording & Telemetry for Experimental Re-entry Vehicle

Curtiss-Wright was selected to provide its COTS data acquisition, networking and recording systems to the European Space Agency for the IXV which are qualified to meet requirements for space equipment such as radiation tolerance and high reliability.

03/12/2015
Rugged ‘Space COTS’ DAU for use on the International Space Station
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Rugged ‘Space COTS’ DAU for use on the International Space Station

The ACLS monitoring system required a number of distributed Data Acquisition Units (DAU) for both the OGA and CCA.

03/11/2015
TAI Instruments the Hurkus Trainer with an Acra KAM-500 Data Acquisition System
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TAI Instruments the Hurkus Trainer with an Acra KAM-500 Data Acquisition System

In order to gain EASA CS-23 certification, TAI instruments Turkey’s first indigenous trainer, the Hürkus, with an Acra KAM-500 DAS. Over 500 test flights are planned.

03/01/2015