Flight Instruments

Panel Replacements: Metal vs. Overlay
AVweb - Greenwich,CT,USA
The same goes for vacuum and static lines that plumb flight instruments. Electrical busses, including the replacement of fuses and circuit breakers, ...
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Hurry up and wait
Kings County Record - Sussex,New Brunswick,Canada
After a handful of meetings and slightly less fog in the air, the balloonists unpacked their instruments of flight with a short window of opportunity. ...
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PXI gains momentum in mil/aero industry
Test & Measurement World - Newton,MA,USA
Existing mil/aero test platforms for USAF and NAVAIR avionics are transitioning to PXI, and many portable field and flight-line testers are now available in ...
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Just Planes' Oasis Hong Kong 747-400 DVD
FlightSim.com (press release) - MA,USA
Close ups of the instruments and charts make details of the flights quite compelling. Use of the autopilot and flight management computer is explained ...
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Balloons take to sky for volcanic gas study
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA
Both goals were met, and the scientists hope to obtain funding for a scaled-up project with more flights and advanced instruments, he said. ...
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NASA Offers Grants for New-Space Research Concepts
By David Chandler
... drop towers and zero-g aircraft, using instruments too massive for spacecraft to detect cosmic rays that cannot be detected from the ground, and testing scientific instruments before committing to orbital or interplanetary flight." ...
Discovery Space: Next Generation - http://blogs.discovery.com/next_generation/

Tuesday, August 12th
By Ryan Tobin(Ryan Tobin)
All the book-learnin' on spatial disorientation and "trusting your instruments" came back to me like a fastball to the noggin, but reading about it and expereincing it are two very different things. The windshield turns stark white and ...
Ryan, Aeronautical - http://ryanaeronautical.blogspot.com/

Aviation as a Hobby
By Allen
It is a lot of theory work, with massive texts and strange looking calculating instruments, but without the basic knowledge, you won't be going up in a plane except as a passenger! At the end of ground school, you will be given an exam ...
Wow Rebates - http://wow-rebates.com

A Labor Day OCP Wrap-up
By Crowe
It's mostly drums, with a few beat up horns and some cylindrical instruments they rub with a stick to get a swishing rhythmic noise out of. The rest are cheer leaders and the dance line with batons. The conductor is a tall, ...
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/

The Case for Sample Return: Mars (1989)
By David S. F. Portree(David S. F. Portree)
They argued that "[e]ven if all required instruments could be automated and flight-qualified," they "could never be expected to accommodate unanticipated properties. . . of materials," adding that the "limitations of remotely operated ...
Altair VI - http://altairvi.blogspot.com/