In This Issue

Welcome to the Ideal Precision™ E-Newsletter

> Products

NEW! AERO 4000 Motion Controller©

NEW! Low Cost 1-Axis Rate Table with
  Temperature Chamber

NEW! Low Cost UAV Flight Motion
  Simulator System

EO/FLIR UUT Positioning / Motion Systems

> Support

Ideal Services & Supports Legacy Motion
  Tables

> Customers

US Navy Selects Ideal

Canada's Royal Military College Selects
  Ideal

Ideal Delivers SATCOM Test System to
  Dassault Falcon Jet

> Our Company

Ideal Organizes Business Units

John Carter receives FAA award for 50
  years of piloting

Welcome to Ideal Aerosmith's Inaugural e-newsletter. Ideal Precision™ is our new tool, designed to improve our communications with you, our customer, and to inform you of the exciting things happening at Ideal Aerosmith. Three to four times a year, we will provide you with succinct articles of interest about new products, new motion and test applications, application notes, and occasional articles about the great employees of Ideal Aerosmith.

In Early 2005, Ideal hired the staff of Carco Electronics, boosting the technical expertise and market reach of Ideal Aerosmith. Several of the new products and program awards that you see in this issue are direct results of the contributions made by these new Ideal associates in Pittsburgh and Menlo Park. We look forward to building on their achievements.

As a result of our new customers, employees, and facilities, Ideal has organized itself into three business divisions that are closely aligned with the market niches that we serve. This will help us serve our customers more quickly and efficiently as we continue to grow. Read the details here.

Please forward this to associates who may share an interest in Inertial Systems, Missile Guidance, and Avionics Testing. If you are not part of our mailing list and you would like to receive this newsletter, click here to subscribe. If you no longer want to receive this email, simply unsubscribe. We appreciate your interest in our company.

Mike Reed,
Vice President of Marketing
Ideal Aerosmith

Upcoming Events

Products

Visit the Ideal Aerosmith booth at these upcoming events:

Aerospace Testing Expo - Europe
April 4-6, 2006
Hamburg, Germany

SPIE Defense & Security Symposium
April 17-21, 2006
Orlando, FL

IEEE/ION PLANS 2006
April 24-27, 2006
Coronado (San Diego), CA

New Generation AERO 4000 Digital Motion Controller© is Ideal for motion table upgrades and controller replacements

Representing the culmination of Ideal Aerosmith knowledge and experience, with forward-thinking electrical, packaging, and software design, Ideal Aerosmith introduces the new AERO 4000 Motion Controller© as the next leading controller for the inertial testing and flight motion simulation industry.

The AERO 4000 is the perfect upgrade / replacement for older MPACS, DR3100/3200 MADES, 403, 404, 405D, and other out-of-production motion controllers.

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 Download AERO 4000 Motion Controller© datasheet

NEW! Low Cost 1-Axis Rate Table with Temperature Chamber

Ideal Aerosmith announces the introduction of the Model 1291TC Single Axis Rate and Positioning Table with integral Temperature Chamber.

The new rate table system provides a completely integrated system for development and production testing of temperature sensitive inertial sensors and inertial measurement units (IMUs). These devices typically require calibration at selected temperatures.

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 Download 1291TC datasheet

Cost Effective UAV Hardware-in-the-Loop Flight Motion Simulation System

Simulate low dynamic UAV flight profiles with the Ideal Aerosmith Model 1573-FMS Three-axis Motion Simulator. The system can be driven directly from Flight Simulation computers that output real-time pitch, roll, and yaw data at frame rates up to 256 Hz via RS-232 or IEEE-488 interfaces.

The 1573-FMS system features typical bandwidths of 25 Hz in roll, 12 Hz in pitch, and 7 Hz in yaw. The standard system allows unlimited rotation in the yaw axis, and +/- 185 degrees of freedom in pitch and roll axes.
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 Download 1573 Motion Simulator datasheet

Test Electro-Optic Systems with 2- and 3-axis precision motion & positioning systems

Ideal Aerosmith has designed a broad array of 2- and 3-axis positioning systems for testing military Electro-optic seekers, FLIR pods and cameras, targeting systems, etc. Typically these systems are mechanically customized to suit unique UUT test requirements including unobstructed Field of View and access for liquid coolant lines. Often, sinusoidal motion or broadband white noise motion (for frequency response and power spectral density tests) are required and are easily simulated with Ideal's motion controllers. Contact us to discuss your application.

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Support

Ideal Services & Supports Contraves / Benton / Goerz / Genisco / Carco / Trio-Tech Motion Tables

With the expansion of Ideal Aerosmith?s staff, we have the capability to service, support, and upgrade the large installed base of older rate tables, centrifuges, flight motion tables, and target motion systems previously manufactured by Contraves, Benton, Goerz, Genisco, Carco Electronics, and Trio-Tech.

Ideal Aerosmith can perform the following services, either at your site, or at one of our facilities:

    - Table calibration
    - Controller / Servo amplifier upgrade and replacement
    - Controller repair
    - Slip ring replacement
    - Hydraulic actuator repair
    - Controller adjustment and table tuning
    - Motor, bearing, encoder, and Inductosyn™ replacement

We are typically able to dispatch a field engineer anywhere in the world on short notice to solve your flight motion table or rate table problem.

We can also replace old, obsolete controllers with our AERO 8X2 or new AERO 4000 Digital Motion Controller©.

Contact us for service, repair, or upgrade problems or questions.

Customers

US Navy Selects Ideal Aerosmith's New Three-Axis Rate Table System

Ideal Aerosmith was recently selected by a U.S. Naval facility to supply a Three-Axis Motion Simulation Table System. The Ideal Aerosmith Model 1573 Rate Table System with integral LN2 Thermal Chamber will be used to support Naval Aviation programs involving the upgrade of older spinning mass-based gyro systems with MEMS-based avionics systems. The Navy platforms include the F/A-18, H-60, H-53, EA-6B, E-2C, and P-3 aircraft.

Read entire article...

 Download 1573 Motion Simulator datasheet

Canada's Royal Military College Selects Ideal Aerosmith table for MEMS IMU Research

Ideal Aerosmith recently delivered a Model 2103HT Three-Axis Automatic Positioning and Rate Table System to the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC). The rate table will be used by the Vehicular Navigation Research Laboratory's research team to calibrate and test tactical grade (TG6000, KVH) and MEMS-based (Motion Pak II, BEI Systron Donner) inertial measurement units (IMUs).

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 Download 2103HT datasheet

Ideal Delivers SATCOM Test System to Dassault

Last month representatives from Dassault Falcon Jet, of Little Rock AR, traveled to Ideal's Test Services facility in Phoenix AZ to inspect and take delivery of a SATCOM (Satellite Communication) Test Bench that was conceived, designed, and built by Ideal Aerosmith. The Test Bench will be used to configure, test, and troubleshoot SATCOM, telecom PBX, and office-in-the-sky (network routers, fax machines, handsets, etc.) avionics systems prior to installation in Falcon business jets. Having this capability will greatly reduce the time to configure and troubleshoot these installations on the aircraft itself, thereby speeding Dassault's delivery process.

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Our Company

Ideal Aerosmith Organizes into Aerospace Test Engineering, Inertial Test Systems, and Missile Flight Simulation Divisions

To provide better customer response and improve our market focus, Ideal Aerosmith has organized itself into three divisions. Each division is led by an Ideal manager who has direct control over his business development and engineering teams. With the responsibility and accountability for the success of the division, our customers benefit from streamlined decision-making regarding technical and business matters and closer contact with Ideal's upper management.

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John Carter receives FAA Master Pilot Award for 50 Years of Piloting

John M. Carter has received the FAA Wright Brothers ?MASTER PILOT? Award for his 65 years as a pilot and in appreciation for his service, technical expertise, professionalism and many outstanding contributions that further the cause of aviation safety.

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