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Successful COTS Solution for Space Vehicle Onboard Recording & Audio Handling

Successful COTS Solution for Space Vehicle Onboard Recording and Audio Handling

This case study describes how a space vehicle designer was able to rapidly implement a system to collect all of the data from onboard computers and accommodate late changes to requirements.

04/23/2020
5th Generation Fighter Finds Room for Aircraft Monitoring Instrumentation

5th Generation Fighter Finds Room for Aircraft Monitoring Instrumentation

This case study describes how an operator of a 5th generation fighter found room to install aircraft monitoring instrumentation to help examine performance and rapidly identify any future issues.

05/30/2019
Reducing Unscheduled Grounding Events with Adaptable Predictive Maintenance

Reducing Unscheduled Grounding Events with Adaptable Predictive Maintenance

A commercial flight operator realized a successful predictive maintenance program capturing data to produce accurate maintenance forecasts and predicting potential service disruptions. Read about the solution Curtiss-Wright developed here.

11/23/2017
Successfully Instrumenting a Regional Jet for Flight Testing with a New Team

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
On-Board Critical Frequency Detection Firmware for Aircraft Standalone Real-Time Processing

On-Board Critical Frequency Detection Firmware for Aircraft Standalone Real-Time Processing

This case study discusses the challenge a Curtiss-Wright customer, a major Flight Test organization, had where they needed to implement a compact, rugged flight test system with real-time analysis running on hardware.

12/22/2016
Implementing a Structural Health Monitoring Program on an EH101

Implementing a Structural Health Monitoring Program on an EH101

<p>The Portuguese Air Force implements a Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) system on an AgustaWestland EH101 to evaluate the improvements to safety and maintenance costs.</p>

07/01/2016
Health Monitoring for Light Combat Aircraft

Health Monitoring for Light Combat Aircraft

Operators of a Light Combat Aircraft fleet wanted a simple, rapidly developed and deployed, and upgradeable CBM program hardware. Learn about the solution.

04/18/2016
Acra KAM-500 Helps to Breathe New Life into the Young Eagle

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

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

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

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

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