AEROSPACE AND DEFENCE

Knowledge articles focusing on test and measurement applications within
aerospace and defence, the research and industry applications for structures,
satellites and flight certification which require stress, shock, acceleration and high reliability.

The Great Airbus H160 Certification Challenge

With certification planned for year end, the game-changing Airbus H160 is smoother, cleaner and quieter than any other helicopter. But what does it take to certify a brand-new aircraft for the skies?

Rotor Engine Sound: Painting the sky green

A world on the move – the growing number of people with the means and desire to fly has created an estimated need for more than 40,000 new aircraft over the next 20 years.

Testing Futuristic Fighter Jets

Collaborating with Lockheed Martin for many years, Brüel & Kjær is supporting the demand for ‘right-first-time’ engineering and supplying reliable, high-quality, goal-focussed solutions for noise and vibration testing and analysis. This partnership is helping ensure the high performance of some of the most technologically sophisticated machines ever built.

Wind Tunnel Vision

High in the French Alps on what could be a James Bond film set, ONERA’s large wind tunnel helps to perfect future aircraft. As they master the challenges of extracting precise acoustic data, ONERA Modane will soon offer a one-stop shop for both aerodynamics and aircraft noise.

Ensuring superior passenger comfort in the Mitsubishi SpaceJet –

Japan’s first commercial jet aircraft, Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ), now SpaceJet is in certification phase. The aircraft is highly anticipated from the country.

Epsilon Safeguards The Payload With A Launchpad Redesign

The 2018 launch of Epsilon-3 was more than the successful delivery of the payload to sun-synchronous orbit (SSO). This launch was a culmination of the efforts made to redesign the launchpad and thereby reduce the stress placed on the payload.

Putting The Surface Microphone Through Its Paces at Airbus

Based in Toulouse, France, Airbus is a global company with design and manufacturing facilities in France, Germany, the U.K. and Spain. The cooperation between the various entities that make up Airbus, goes back to the 1920s. Its first aircraft A300B, which was launched at the 1969 Paris air show, was the world’s first widebody twinjet. It could comfortably carry 226 passengers.

Military Aircraft Testing: Trial by Combat

Military equipment failing in battle or aircraft components breaking under pressure are nightmare scenarios that require punishing test regimes. And as quality standards intensify, test houses are guaranteeing more hardware is ready to survive.

COMAC’s great LEAP

When China’s first large jet lifts its wheels from the runway, two new LEAP engines will power it into the skies. But before the aircraft could be certified to fly, COMAC needed to map how the LEAP’s acoustic energy will impact the structure – long before it actually flew.

Wireless Data Acquisition Unleashed

Perfectly synchronized real-time noise measurements over large areas are simplified with independent, wireless Data Acquisition Modules. It's time to unleash absolute flexibility.

Leap through jet engine testing

As aircraft engine makers like Snecma address emissions and cost challenges, scalable, high-performance test and analysis systems lie behind their rapid response.

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