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Anyone who has worked with a large aerospace component supplier on a fuel measurement or fuel management program knows the experience well. You submit a request, and it routes through a portal. A program manager gets back to you — eventually. You ask a technical question and wait three days for it to reach someone…
Aircraft are built to last. The fuel measurement systems inside them are expected to last just as long. But the companies that originally designed and manufactured those systems? They may not. Acquisitions happen. Product lines get discontinued. Support contracts expire and are not renewed. A supplier that was a reliable partner for twenty years gets…
There is a phrase used inside LMS that does not get thrown around much in the broader aerospace industry, but it describes exactly what makes the company’s approach different from most suppliers in the fuel measurement space. Application engineering. It means taking proven technology – IP built and refined over three decades of designing aircraft…
There were two office trailers sitting in a front yard on a dirt road outside Burlington, Vermont. No corporate campus. No sign out front. Just a man with deep aerospace experience, a technical breakthrough, and the belief that he could serve the aviation industry better than the large companies he had spent his career working…
Launching a new business aircraft program is never simple. It demands years of design, testing, and constant tradeoffs between cost, performance, and certification. Every major system has to pull its weight, because if one lags, the entire program slips. Fuel measurement is a prime example. It rarely makes headlines, yet it underpins range planning, safety,…
Cockpit retrofits are accelerating across the business aviation market. Operators and manufacturers are turning to new glass displays, connectivity solutions, and digital avionics to extend aircraft life and enhance capability. But one critical system is often left out of the early planning: the fuel system. When the fuel quantity indication system (FQIS) doesn’t align with…
