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On November 16-19, 2009 Steve Brenner will present a course in the understanding, planning and performing Climatic and Dynamic tests here at the Dayton T. Brown Inc. training facility, which is located at 1195 Church Street, Bohemia, NY 11716.

With almost 60 years of experience, Dayton T. Brown is proud to be the training facility for the Equipment Reliability Institute course. With our extensive knowledge, capabilities and use of this standard, DTB is the perfect location to host this course. Course attendees will not only learn the functions of MIL-STD-810 but will receive a Climatics lab demonstration.

This four day course is intended for people who need to perform, witness or specify environmental testing in accordance with the standard. This course will help you understand the purpose of each test, equipment requirements, and methodology to apply the specified test requirements.

Complete course details and a Registration Form are on the Equipment Reliability Institute Web Site, http://www.equipment-reliability.com/mil-std_course2.html.

The NIJ (National Institute of Justice) has significantly revised their Ballistics Testing standard, NIJ 0101.06. Among the changes, it now calls for Environmental Conditioning Testing, in order to subject body armor to simulated conditions of heat, moisture, and mechanical damage.

Improvements in the standard are a result of an extensive engineering study to address real world conditions that can degrade body armor performance.

The revisions to this standard come after recent unfortunate incidents where bullets penetrated the body armor.

The new NIJ 0101.06 standard takes into account the degradation of armor over time. It includes specifications for mechanical agitation, humidity levels, water immersion, and temperature.

DTB is NIJ / NVLAP accredited to carry out the Body Armor Conditioning Testing required to meet this standard, by providing cyclical temperature and humidity exposure, while tumbling the vest samples.

Count on DTB to test your product properly, and face your customers and the NIJ with confidence. We stand apart from the rest by offering:

Click here to view our NVLAP certification documents.

Dayton T. Brown, Inc. (DTB) of Bohemia, NY was recently awarded a multi-million dollar contract by Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. to perform engineering and testing services on commercial aircraft. This contract is scheduled to be executed between 2008 and 2011. DTB will provide Structural and Fatigue testing, test set-up and their Engineering Design services to Spirit as part of this contract.

Commenting on the award, Mr. David Mroczka, General Manager and Senior Vice President at DTB, remarked “This contract win with Spirit AeroSystems gives our company the opportunity to prove ourselves once more to all the other major suppliers of commercial airplane assemblies and components. We are truly looking forward to a successful relationship with Spirit and believe that this will pave the way for further business in this market segment.”

Dayton T. Brown, Inc.’s Engineering & Test Division (www.dtbtest.com) has been in business for more than 55 years and has a rich history of testing aerospace structures and components for fixed wing and rotorcraft applications. DTB offers complete RTCA/DO-160 certification testing to the latest revision, and has extensive Environmental, Vibration, Shock, and EMI/EMC test facilities. Their aerospace engineering experience runs the gamut from Conformance Inspection with a full in-house Dimensional Lab and Metallurgical Lab, to Failure Analysis, In-flight Instrumentation, and much more. DTB also manufactures a wide range of aircraft test equipment to support Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul operations, component manufacturers and Commercial and Business Jet manufacturing operations

Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. (www.spiritaero.com) was established in 2005 when Onex Corporation acquired what is now Spirit AeroSystems from Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The company's headquarters is in Wichita, Kan., the Air Capital of the World, with additional operations in Tulsa and McAlester, Okla., Prestwick, Scotland, and Samlesbury, England. Spirit offers a diverse line of products and services for aerospace design, build, support and spares/repair needs. Its mission is to provide customers with high-quality, cost-competitive products and services in the following areas: Fuselages, Under-wing components, Composites, Wings and Spares/repairs.

For more information, please contact:
William (Bill) Casey (631) 244-6297 (office); wcasey@DTBtest.com

The new simulator will perform RS105 testing in accordance with MIL-STD-461 for EMP survivability. The military needs to ensure that critical equipment survives and/or works properly in such circumstances. The test is a Radiated Susceptibility test where a high voltage level pulse, 50 kV, is applied to the test item.

The antenna is very large and requires the testing to be done away from other metal objects, therefore DTB will be using an OATS facility for the testing. All our related equipment is scheduled to arrive within the next few months.

DTB’s system has an estimated overall simulator length (including pulse generator) of approximately 13.5 meters. The launch tapered section will be approximately 6.5 meters long, length of parallel plate section will be 3 meters, length of load tapered load section will be approximately 4 meters, and maximum width of the simulator array will be approximately 5.5 meters. The simulator will be installed diagonally over the existing 24 ft x 44 ft DTB ground plane. It is currently the largest simulator of its kind by far, in any U.S. non-government test facility.

This test is applicable to equipment and subsystem enclosures when the equipment or subsystem is located externally to a hardened (shielded) platform or facility. The test is also applicable for equipment intended solely for use on non-metallic platforms. In addition, the requirement is also applicable to Army aircraft for safety critical equipment and subsystems located in an external installation.

For more information on the RS105 test, feel free to call us at 1-800-TEST-456.