All the president's helicopters: Data acquisition system for rotor blade testing at AgustaWestland

The key criteria of the next generation of presidential helicopters was to ensure the safe transportation of the President of the United States of America, and effectively create an 'Oval Office in the sky'.

The AgustaWestland US101 was selected as the helicopter that best fulfilled these stringent demands. During the development of its military equivalent, the EH101, extensive rotor-blade testing was performed using HBM's MGCplus data acquisition system and catman®Enterprise measurement and analysis software.

Article published in Aerospace Testing International, March 2007

Reference number: 97

Published By: Doug MacLennan, Johannes Mattes

13.03.2007

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