DEFINITION:

Large-scale validation rigs necessary to establish and validate the integration of technologies and performance parameters. Links with ‘Flight / Ground Tests’. Validation platforms may conduct validation at component, sub-system and system levels.

(Source: ACARE Domain 633)

SUBDOMAINS:

  1. Ground validation benches
  2. Aircraft equipped for test and validation in an operational context
  3. Technology demonstrators, technology integration platforms (TIPs)
  4. Integrated platforms for system development, safety analysis and certification
  5. Wind tunnels
  6. Prototyping tools
  7. Digital mock-ups
  8. Validation vehicles for powerplants, avionics, aircraft structure, aircraft systems, flight software
  9. Combined validation platforms for multiple technology programmes
  10. Advanced experimental testbeds