A quick search on "Ayden Vector" aircraft instrumentation led to this rather old but fairly complete NASA paper:
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1987003285.pdf It deals with sounding rockets but the same basic principals apply.
If you want more up to date info, try "Aircraft [airborne] data acquisition system" or ADAS. IIRC Airbus did a paper on data acquisition on the A380 at the SFTE annual meeting in Wichita a few years ago so a check on their website may also help.