Computers speed flight testing Available to Purchase

THE ADVANCE in civil aviation made by Concorde has been reflected in the complexity of the flight test program, and in the volume of data that must be analysed following each test flight. There are some 3,500 transducers on Concorde 002 measuring variables such as pressure, temperature and stress. Data originating from these transducers as the result of a single test flight amounts to several million characters of raw data which must be converted to actual measurements and then analysed.