HEIR, GENERAL. Heir at common in the English law. The heir at common law is he who, after his father or ancestor's death has a right to, and is introduced into all his lands, tenements and hereditaments. He must be of the whole blood, not a bastard, alien, &c.
An air data computer (ADC) is a avionics component that assimilates the inputs from an aircraft's external and system sensors and returns a series of calculated results critical to the control of the aircraft. In one compact package, the air data computer performs what a bank of individual instruments were once required to do. Almost all the flight-related information displayed in newer commercial aircraft fitted with glass cockpits is compiled by an air data computer.
Current generation air data computers have evolved into a separate sensor/ amplifier that provides a multitude of functions and information. The first generation of a Central Air Data Computer (CADC) evolved out of the Navy F14A Tomcat program in the 1967-1969 time period. This com-puter employed Quartz Sensors, 20 bit