AUTOMATED TESTING OF FLIGHT INSTRUMENTS

The paper discusses present-day specifications for such flight instruments as altimeters, air-data computers, and air-speed indicators, which involve hundreds of calibration test points. Manual inspection of instruments of this type requires highly skilled personnel and a significant investment in terms of direct-labor man-hours. Several automated punched-tape-controlled systems for flight-instrument testing have been designed to reduce the costs of manual inspection.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • SME Tech Paper Series EM, Misc Tech Paper-Book 1.
• Corporate Authors:

  Society of Manufacturing Engineers

  20501 Ford Road
  Dearborn, MI  United States  48128
• Authors:
  • Muhs, D P
• Publication Date: 1976-12

Media Info

• Pagination: 11 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airborne navigational aids; Altimeters; Applications; Calibration; Computers; Costs; Flight tests; Information processing; Inspection; Instrument flying; Maintenance; Measuring instruments; Personnel; Specifications; Testing
• Uncontrolled Terms: Aircraft instruments
• Old TRIS Terms: Flight instruments
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Finance; Maintenance and Preservation; Research; Society; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00172741
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Report/Paper Numbers: SME EM76-974
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 12 1978 12:00AM