The SFTE EC Jesualdo Martinez Award In Flight Testing has been created to commemorate our colleague and board member Jesualdo Martines Rodanes, who tragically deceased in the accident of A400M MSN 23, in Seville in May 2015.
A. Muis, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Aerospace Design, Integration and Operations Group, Control and Simulation Division, Delft, The Netherlands
J. Oliveira, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Aerospace Design, Integration and Operations Group, Control and Simulation Division, Delft, The Netherlands
J. A. Mulder, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Aerospace Design, Integration and Operations Group, Control and Simulation Division, Delft, The Netherlands
This article poses some questions about what should be expected from an instrumentation system and evolves to a description of the actual flight test instrumentation system developed for a Cessna Citation 550. Reasons are presented which support the statement that the main concern in building an instrumentation system is to achieve an easy maintainable system with flexible configuration of sensors.