Flight test air data boom on show in Paris

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team May 12, 2003

Spaceage Control will offer a preview display of its new 100700-051 air data boom at next month's Paris Air Show.

Spaceage Control will offer a preview display of its new 100700-051 air data boom at next month's Paris Air Show.

Developed and tested over an 18-month schedule, the 100700-type air data boom has been environmentally qualified to meet the performance requirements of military fighter aircraft to a 12,000-flight-hour lifetime.

As such, the product has been dubbed "the world's most heavily tested flight test air data boom".

The 100700-type air data boom provides heated total and static pressure ports, angle of attack and angle of sideslip sensors, and a total air temperature sensor.

It successfully passed a gauntlet of environmental testing including icing, temperature/pressure, vibration, acceleration, shock, salt mist exposure, contaminants exposure, fungus and EMI.

The air data boom will be on display in Hall 4, Stand E2 at Le Bourget Airport, home of the Paris Air Show.

Visitors to the stand will be eligible for a daily drawing of the 313-page NASA Publication 1046, "Measurement of aircraft airspeed and altitude".