Flight Test Instrumentation

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• Flight test instrumentation — is the name given to the recording and monitoring equipment fitted to experimental aircraft to monitor their behaviour in flight. It can refer to both military and civil applications, and can monitor various parameters from the temperatures of… …   Wikipedia

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