Aerospace

Proven in Aerospace. Built for the Real World.

Born from the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, the Surface Analyst has become a trusted standard in aerospace manufacturing and sustainment. Whether building the next-generation commercial airliner, an unmanned drone, or maintaining legacy aircraft, the challenges of surface preparation are constant—and often manual.

Brighton Science empowers manufacturers and maintainers to validate surface readiness with quantitative water contact angle measurement, ensuring every critical surface is optimized for bonding, coating, and sealing. With tools designed for everything from rugged and isolated environments to factory floors, and a growing network of customers across aerospace and defense, Brighton delivers confidence where precision, reliability, and quality assurance are mission-critical.

Common Aerospace Applications

• Replace water break testing
• Guarantee adhesion of bonded fasteners, studs & brackets
• Validate coatings on aircraft electronics and cabling
• Achieve optimal surface preparation in composite and metal bonding and repair
• Develop surface cleanliness specifications for painting and priming
• Quantify the exact amount of abrasion required for successful structural bonds
• Establish a quantifiable surface specification for materials from suppliers
• Continually monitor manual surface preparation processes like solvent cleaning
• Understand the effects of aging and storage on material quality
• Detect peel ply on composite surfaces