The decreasing air pressure that is a result of increased altitude affects the aircraft, all its components and systems, and everything on board.
Simulating flight environments
Element test engineers simulate altitude, temperature, and other in-flight conditions to provide comprehensive performance data to manufacturers and designers of parts and components for military, aerospace, missile, rocket, helicopter, and other aviation industries.
These test methods can also be applied to non-aviation materials, products, parts and components to evaluate their response to air transport or high-altitude installation. In addition, altitude testing can be combined with other environmental simulations, e.g., altitude/temperature, altitude/humidity, altitude/vibration/temperature. Customized climatic test programs allow close approximation of the actual conditions facing your product; let Element help design a test program that gives you data you can work with.