According to a reporter in Prague, Honeywell Technology Solutions (HTS), based in the Czech city of Brno and part of the American multinational group Honeywell, has successfully developed a black box for allowing the aircraft to stay connected online with the ground during flight, thereby allowing for the continuous collection of flight data. This is the world's first device of its kind to be certified.
A black box is a device that records what is happening in the cockpit during flight and can help clarify what happened before in the event of a crash.
HTS representative said that the newly launched product by the company, called HCR-25, in cooperation with Curtiss-Wright Corporation of the US, is a flight data recorder and voice recorder. certification for Boeing 737, 767 and 777 aircraft.
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| This device is certified for Boeing 737, 767 and 777 aircraft. (Artwork). |
HTS Head of Recording, Tomas Kral, explains that with the help of the HCR-25, all data will be available immediately, transmitted to the ground in real time, so it will be ready for insider analysis is taking place in the cockpit. According to Kral, this 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 planes mentioned above.
The company representative also emphasized that HTS will focus mainly on modifying the HCR-25 product according to the requirements of each specific customer. The company is currently working on a provisioning system that will allow airlines to choose, for example, where the data will be transmitted and how it will be processed. In addition, as it was developed to replace older Honeywell equipment, the HCR-25 will not only be installed in newly produced aircraft, but can also replace previous black box types of the company. same manufacturer.
Brno-based Czech technology solutions company not only develops the black box and the software that connects the aircraft to the ground, but also the infrastructure, including the cloud server technology. , i.e. virtual centers where data is saved for further analysis and processing.
HTS is the engineering, research and development division of Honeywell Corporation - the owner of more than 200 patents registered in many countries. The company's headquarters in Brno currently has more than 1.000 employees working and it is also Honeywell's largest research and development center in Europe.
According to Khoahoc.tv
