ONERA Wind Tunnel Division test facilities offer large capabilities for testing civilaircraft, with complete model, half (motorized) model or components (air intake, landing gear...) in the different flight phases (take of, cruise, landing, limit of the flight envelope conditions...). Flight performances
A modern civilaircraft has hundreds of computers, sensors and actuators on board, which communicate with other through a shared network. The proper operation of the aircraft requires calculation and communication times to be controlled