Howard Hughes sets a new record for around-the-world flight.
He completes the trip in just 91 hours (3 days, 19 hours).
Ideal Laboratory & Tool is formed in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Founded by ex-airline maintenance personnel, we get our start working on aircraft instruments.
Ideal introduces its first Scorsby motion table.
Ideal is awarded the Army-Navy “E” For Excellence.
The military recognizes us for our efforts during World War II.
Ideal Laboratory & Tool merges with Aerosmith Instrument Company.
Ideal Aerosmith is created by combining two innovative organizations.
Ideal Aerosmith begins producing fiberglass boats.
The experiment lasts only a few years, with production ending in 1959 after only 650 boats.
Ideal Aerosmith is acquired by Royal Industries.
This California holding company boasted TV personality Art Linkletter on its board of directors.
Ideal Aerosmith introduces Y-way and DCNM manometers and tilt meters, as well as tilt & turn tables.
Many modern versions of these products are still made by Ideal Aerosmith today.
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Ideal Aerosmith manufactures components for new kidney dialysis machines.
Ideal Aerosmith helps with an important medical advancement.
Ideal Aerosmith develops precision timing devices for sports.
Numerous national sporting events take advantage of our technology.
The Concorde begins passenger flights.
Supersonic air travel takes off (at least until 2003 when these planes are retired).
Ideal Aerosmith produces its first automatic position and rate table.
Corporate headquarters moves to East Grand Forks, Minnesota.
A move that pays off, as our new home proves to be a great fit.
Hubble Space Telescope launches into orbit.
One of human science’s most important achievements finally takes to the skies.
Ideal Aerosmith Table Language (ATL) is introduced.
ATL provides a simple, yet powerful interface for everything from small rate tables to three and five axis Flight Motion Simulators.
Ideal Aerosmith expands into the build-to-print market.
The move includes on-site support for major avionics OEMs.
Ideal Aerosmith produces its first Hardware-In-The-Loop (HWIL) missile simulator.
In less than 10 years, Ideal Aerosmith goes from producing its first simulator to being a market leader in both new simulators and controller upgrades.
Ideal Aerosmith achieves their initial ISO 9001 certification.
This prestigious designation proves our commitment of quality to the world.
Ideal Aerosmith acquires centrifuge and rate table line from Trio-Tech.
Formerly manufactured by Genisco Technology, these products help to reinforce our own offerings.
Ideal Aerosmith acquires automatic test equipment line of products.
Ideal Aerosmith expands its solutions into testing weather radar and in-flight entertainment systems.
Ideal Aerosmith establishes manufacturing facility in Phoenix, Arizona.
This facility performs much of Ideal Aerosmith’s test engineering.
Model 1291 Single Axis Table is introduced.
This provides an economical method of testing MEMS gyros.
Camera phones hit the market.
Suddenly, almost everything can be captured as an image immediately.
Ideal Aerosmith delivers a satellite communication test bench.
We developed this advanced technology for a manufacturer of corporate jets.
Ideal Aerosmith expands to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Menlo Park, California.
In this expansion, employees from Carco Electronics (highly regarded rate table and missile simulation experts) join our team.
AERO4000™ Motion Controller is introduced.
The industry’s most highly advanced and capable controller makes a statement when it debuts.
Ideal Aerosmith delivers its first five axis hydraulic table.
This Flight Motion Simulator is an important tool for a missile Hardware-In-The-Loop test lab.
Ideal Aerosmith adds new corporate and manufacturing facility in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
An ultramodern new building houses management and support staff, as well as a cutting-edge manufacturing area.
Rockwell Collins names Ideal Aerosmith “Business Services Supplier of the Year.”
Thanks to 100% on-time delivery and 0 DPPM (defective parts per million) for at least 16 straight months.
Ideal Aerosmith celebrates 75 years.
With a focus on the future, we’re just getting started.
Ideal Aerosmith manufacturers the automated Trip Guardian™ 2203 for Halliburton.
It’s used to test Halliburton’s directional drilling tools and instruments before they are deployed into the field.
Ideal Aerosmith receives the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Export Achievement Award.
We have been working with the U.S. Commercial Service since 1998, and have business dealings in more than 10 countries.
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Inertial Test Laboratory.
Ideal Aerosmith set up an Inertial Test Laboratory (ITL) in Phoenix, Arizona.
To provide testing solutions for customers and projects that require short-term, periodic or custom motion simulation capabilities without the full cost of acquisition and ownership.
1291BLX 400 Hz bandwidth capability.
Ideal Aerosmith develops the 1291BLX which provides 400 Hz bandwidth capability — the first in the industry.
Ribbon cutting reveals new centrifuge.
Ideal Aerosmith and Sandia National Laboratories collaborate to install a new centrifuge.
This centrifuge, equipped with advanced slip ring technology, significantly improves data acquisition and allows WETL to keep pace with the growing demand for system testing.