New commercial and military aircraft production is preceded by extensive flight tests to prove the performance of the aircraft and its sub-systems.

Modern aircraft flight test instrumentation system design revolves around defining the most efficient method to collect aircraft data for both on board recording and real-time telemetry transmission.

Test and measurement equipment for the flightline is becoming smaller, lighter in weight, less power-hungry, and requires fewer maintenance personnel than ever before.

The company’s Aerospace Instrumentation group presented its system-level flight test instrumentation (FTI) to hundreds of delegates at this year’s show.

The Xeon-D SoC has more cores and threads per CPU (up to 16 cores/32 threads), helping designers upgrade mission computers without the SWaP concerns.

There is significant commonality between unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and UUV environments with standard rugged military commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) embedded solutions often applicable to both.

Damian Kemp with Jane's International Defence Review met with Curtiss-Wright at Xponential 2016 to discuss UAV-focused data devices.

We discuss the groundbreaking SWaP-C reduction for processor and network switch systems are enabling UAS and UGV platforms to expand their mission capabilities.