World's first aircraft black box connected online to the ground launched

According to a reporter in Prague, Honeywell Technology Solutions (HTS), a technology solutions company headquartered in the city of Brno in the Czech Republic and a company of the American multinational Honeywell Group, has successfully developed a black box for aircraft that can connect online with the ground during the flight, thereby allowing continuous collection of flight data. This is the first device of its kind in the world to be certified.

A black box is a device that records what is happening in the cockpit during a flight and can help clarify what happened before in the event of an accident with the plane.

HTS representative said that the product just launched by the company, called HCR-25, in cooperation with the American Curtiss-Wright corporation, is a flight data and voice recorder that has been certified for Boeing 737, 767 and 777 aircraft.

This device is certified for Boeing 737, 767 and 777 aircraft. (Illustration photo).

HTS's head of voice recorders, Tomas Kral, explained that with the help of the HCR-25, all the data will be available immediately, transmitted to the ground in real time, and thus ready for analysis of what is happening in the cockpit. According to Mr. Kral, the new black box model is connected to the ground via satellite and it took HTS four years to develop and obtain certification for the three Boeing aircraft models mentioned above.

The company representative also emphasized that HTS will focus primarily on customizing the HCR-25 product to meet the specific needs of each customer. The company is currently preparing a delivery system that will allow airlines to choose, for example, where the data will be transmitted and how it will be processed. In addition, because it is being developed to replace older Honeywell devices, the HCR-25 will not only be installed on newly manufactured aircraft, but can also replace the previous black boxes from the same manufacturer.

The Czech technology solutions company based in Brno develops not only black boxes and software that connects aircraft to the ground, but also infrastructure, including cloud computing servers, i.e. virtual centers where data is stored for further analysis and processing.

HTS is the engineering, research and development division of Honeywell, owner of more than 200 patents registered in many countries. The company's headquarters in Brno currently has over 1,000 employees and is also Honeywell's largest research and development center in Europe.

According to khoahoc.tv

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