wear the orange
The author, Carla Jackson, is a Flight Test Engineer and a Fellow of the Society of Flight Test Engineers. Part 1 Once upon a time, Lockheed Martin, Marietta, had a Chief Test Pilot / Flight Ops Director who believed in
Year: 2019
flight test orange
Embedded deep in the lore and legend of flight test is a uniquely colored fiber woven into the fabric of who we are and what we do. The color of that fiber is flight test orange. It appears on our
the birth of FAA Order 4040.26
For some of us, it seems like the order always existed, but this paper reminds us that FAA’s test safety guidance is relatively young, at least in its current form. David Downey remembers the travail and birth of the Federal
Flight Test Safety Fact, 19-09
In 1999, Greg Lewis presented a paper to the Flight Test Society of Australia, “Flight Test Safety in Civil Certification,” in which he describes unique risks and incidents that occurred during civil certification flight test with government test pilots. One
Book Review: In Flight Simulators and Fly-by-Wire/Light Aircraft
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Safety Planning in C-17 Airdrop Safety Planning
This 2010 article introduced techniques not previously used in test safety planning. The author applied the techniques for C-17A aerial delivery flight testing on NASA projects Orion crew entry vehicle parachute assembly system (CPAS) and the Ares jumbo drop test
Flight Test Safety Fact, 19-07
It has been almost two months since the Flight Test Safety Workshop, and you can now find video presentations from the workshop posted on the website. As you may recall, the Workshop provided our community with a chance to discuss
FTSC publishes sticker for workshop
The Flight Test Safety Committee printed stickers for the 2019 Flight Test Safety Workshop using the image featured here. David Kern shared a photo of the sticker during the workshop.
Takeoff Field Performance at Gulfstream
The 2019 Flight Test Safety Workshop’s best paper award went to Takeoff Field Performance at Gulfstream, by Todd Abler, Clay Harden & Ben Luther of Gulfstream Aerospace. The paper and video will not be available, but the authors have shared
Flight Test Safety Fact, 19-06
In just a few short weeks the videos from the 2019 Flight Test Safety Workshop will be posted on the website. Until that time you can read a message from the Chairman about the Workshop, give feedback, or find out