BEI Gyrochips

Never before has US state bureaucracy and dual-use("QRS technology" integrated on a silicon chip),
technology with both military and commercialsometimes known as quartz inertial sensors or quartz
applications, caused such a disproportionate rumpusinertial rate sensors. On some Boeing aircraft, some
as when Boeing came up against the Stateas a result of modifications, three BEI microchips,
Department in 2003 for violating the Arms ControlMEMS based sensors, motion sensors or
Act. What was their crime? ...selling commercialaccelerometers, are embedded in avionics made by
aircraft without obtaining an export license for BEIFrench company Thales. In size, they are extremely
gyrochips, sensor technology also used in defencesmall and are built with microelectromechanical
applications. Laughably, President Bush himselfsystems, MEMS technologies. Acting together, the
personally signed off on the deliveries. Had Boeingthree chips provide a three-dimensional positional
knowingly defied the State Department? After all,reading, telling the pilot through flight displays the
previous cases against Loral and Hughes Electronicsprecise yaw, roll and pitch of the aircraft. They are
had been settled with multimillion-dollar fines. It was asolid-state, have no moving parts and act as a
case with implications for all commercial organisationsback-up to spinning gyroscopes, but are also used in
engaged in the export of aircraft parts. So muchguided missiles, so are classified as military items. With
MRO business is with commercial aircraft, so it isthe passage of time, they will assuredly become
critically important to understand the distinctions.more commonplace than this one application in
Quartz rate sensors ("QRS technology")equipment supplied by Thales Avionics.
BEI microchips are solid-state quartz rate sensors