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Unconventional Inertial Testing

Unconventional Inertial Testing Featuring Marius Gheorghe, PhD One of Ideal Aerosmith’s strengths is finding innovative solutions that satisfy the ever-increasing pressure to reduce costs, increase throughput and improve quality. When we were approached by a prominent tool manufacturer about testing specialized tools, which employ IMUs as core measurement

Aircraft Evacuation Slides: Preventing Unnecessary Deployment

Aircraft Evacuation Slides: Preventing Unnecessary Deployment Featuring Marius Gheorghe, PhD When testing a passenger aircraft’s evacuation slide, all of its safety-critical components must be thoroughly verified. Equally important is preventing the slide’s accidental deployment. While missing possible malfunctions in safety-critical components could have dire consequences, accidentally

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If You Can’t Test It, Maybe You Cant-Test It

If You Can’t Test It, Maybe You Can’t-Test It Featuring Marius Gheorghe, PhD The testing and calibration of inertial measurement units (IMUs) is a complex endeavor, especially as IMU technology outgrows the capabilities of equipment used in the testing process. With replacement proving to be both costly and

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Positive Spin – April 2018

As many of you know, while I work out of our headquarters in Grand Forks, North Dakota, I am originally from Oklahoma. That means that I look forward to spring even more than most lifelong residents of the Upper Midwest. But it's not only due to

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Scaling Up IMU Testing

Scaling Up IMU Testing Featuring Marius Gheorghe, PhD Precision inertial testing is not a process that is easy to scale up. However, it is much less challenging when you work with the experienced team at Ideal Aerosmith. As one customer was pleased to learn, with innovation and

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Approaching From A Different Angle

Approaching From A Different Angle Featuring Rob Krack If there is anything you can expect with a large project, it’s that the unexpected will eventually show up to make things interesting. For one of Ideal Aerosmith’s customers, the unexpected came in the form of an inherited

Non-linear Thinking To The Rescue

Non-linear Thinking To The Rescue Featuring Marius Gheorghe, PhD When some uncertainty in technical nomenclature threatened the prompt delivery of test rigs for an aerospace customer, Ideal Aerosmith developed a non-traditional, elegant solution to overcome the challenge. How We Solved It: The Challenge One common challenge

Telemetry Overload

Telemetry Overload Featuring Marius Gheorghe, PhD An important player in the burgeoning private spaceflight industry recently worked with Ideal Aerosmith’s Marius Gheorghe and his team to overcome an important challenge – how to transmit and interpret massive quantities of test data at a rate that pushed