Aerospace Test Systems

Iron Bird Full Scale

Our test control solutions provide reliable motion control system solutions for iron bird testing.

Iron bird solutions can be used to study and test flight controls, landing gears, and hydraulics of an aircraft system. Both the correct functioning of different aircraft systems, as well as endurance testing can be supported.

A hydraulically powered computer-controlled loading system is used to reproduce in-flight aerodynamic loads.

During the test, the user can define virtually any real time relationship between any input and output including modifying mathematical functions, using measured values, and applying values of any channel or pseudo channels (e.g. real time updated calculations) as parameters. This allows for programming of different load versus angle curves for each flight phase to be automatically sequenced during the iron bird test.

Applications

Here are just a few of the areas in which our expertise and technology play a key role:

• Flight controls of an aircraft system
• Landing gears of an aircraft system
• Hydraulics of an aircraft system