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“I poured my heart out,” she said, and I knew exactly what she meant even though the words held no literal meaning. She trusted us with words she had written about her life and flight test career, her daughter, and
“I poured my heart out,” she said, and I knew exactly what she meant even though the words held no literal meaning. She trusted us with words she had written about her life and flight test career, her daughter, and
Words have the power of life and death. With a single word, you can save the lives of the aircrew or prevent an airplane crash: “Abort!” A word like that normally gets repeated — “Abort! Abort! Abort!” — but it
Nunzio Nicola Caccavo The Fokker Flight Test Patch recalls the original logo of the Fokker as a company, so the main colours are orange (the Dutch national colour) and blue, which was the choice of the founder, Anthony Fokker. On
This article first appeared in the Flight Test News, 18-10 Loosely speaking, three things happened during any Apollo mission. The launch was a disruptive phase during which the transformation of fuel and energy created a tremendous amount of heat and
This article first appeared in the September 2018 Flight Test News. During the course of my reading and review of Initial Airworthiness, several things happened. First, it stirred a line of thinking about several prominent events that have taken place
This article first appeared in the September 2018 Flight Test News. The Perlan Project published this on twitter: “Making history! On Sunday, @Airbus Perlan Mission II soared in the stratosphere to a pressure altitude of over 62,000 feet (60,669 feet
by Panos Vitsas This article first appeared in the September 2018 Flight Test News. Undoubtedly one of our Society’s strong points (if not the strongest) is the Annual Symposium, which is organized every year to give our members the opportunity
by Jim Fawcett This article first appeared in the September 2018 Flight Test News. The 49th Annual International Symposium in Savannah hasn’t even happened yet, but along with a small group of colleagues, I’m already involved in the early stages
This article first appeared in the September 2018 Flight Test News. The Rocket City Chapter is located in Huntsville, Alabama; the birthplace of the U.S. Space Program and home of Redstone Arsenal. Taylor Jefferson and Derek Donewar are leading a
This article first appeared in the September 2018 Flight Test News. Earlier this year, Nathan CAP’N Cook posted a question in SFTE’s private facebook group: Does anyone have references for “fundamentals of test conduct”? I’m not looking for “test techniques”