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.
In a software-defined network, the data plane handles packets under the direction of a control plane, but the controllers are just applications that can run on standard x86 hardware. SDN controllers use a standard protocol (OpenFlow) to communicate with data plane devices. Other specialized network appliances -- like firewalls and load balancers -- that get recast as SDN applications also run on standard x86 hardware using the SDN controller to get the data plane devices to do what they need to do.