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After one year development the Tornado avionic demonstrator did take-off on 03/29/2011. The tested application could be seen future-wise conceptually also in civilian areas. While using the latest Xilinx FPGA technology on a XMC carrier board the wavelength division multiplexing technology has been successfully tested mounted in the Tornado avionics demonstrator. The analyzed data already throughout the expectations that where made. In many areas even exceeded.

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Tornado with mounted avionic demonstrator take-off
Tornado with mounted avionic demonstrator take-off
ADT technology POD
ADT technology POD
Wavelength multiplexing prototypes
Wavelength multiplexing prototypes
Group picture after the successful test flight
Group picture after the successful test flight