Advances in Developing a Unified Post-Flight Analysis System

Abstract

Several years ago, the IADS group at Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions set about designing a unified platform for post-test analysis. This design aimed to satisfy a collection of core requirements that were gathered from meeting with a number of engineering groups throughout the flight test community at that time. The ultimate goal was to create a standardized system for post-test analysis from those requirements that could be used (and reused) by different flight test disciplines across different projects. While the IADS team has made significant progress implementing these requirements in recent years, the team has also received valuable feedback from the flight test community on ways to improve this system. This presentation will explore some of the obstacles and challenges encountered using such a system in a real-world environment, as well as some solutions that have been used to overcome these obstacles. Topics will include strategies for fast and efficient data visualization of entire flights, the importance of a common API for reading different data types, as well as managing large amounts of data in a cloud environment.