The aerospace industry provides some of the most demanding testing challenges today. Critical issues include propulsion and airframe aerodynamics, heat transfer rates, and icing conditions. Increasing performance, environmental, and safety concerns are pushing test facilities to provide more and better data with fewer resources.

As a result, many aerospace test facilities need to provide improved functionality and capabilities; in the past, that has meant replacing test data acquisition and management systems at considerable capital expense. However, Test SLATE enables facilities to now significantly improve their systems and testing performance by seamlessly integrating a wide variety of existing legacy subsystems and new hardware using simple PCs and software with which users can quickly create sophisticated, automated test sequences that be changed on the fly, eliminating hours of costly programming revisions and test condition re-verification.

Test SLATE is so comprehensive, flexible, and cost-efficient, it is used in some of the most advanced US military and NASA test facilities, including Arnold AFB, Cherry Point Naval Aviation Depot, and NASA Ames Research Center. These include applications such as aerodynamic wind tunnels and transmission test stands.

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