Flight Test Safety Fact, 25-10
Seventy-eight years ago today, on October 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1, and so today felt like the right time to break the silence that had fallen on this newsletter for the past five
Year: 2025
Flight Test Safety Fact, 25-05
Do you remember when your coaches or your parents told you to “focus on the fundamentals”? Where did that phrase come from? And is it true that Vince Lombardi said “brilliant at the basics” instead of referring to “the fundamentals”?
Flight Test Safety Fact, 25-03
Sometimes I ponder the “days of yore” and the way scientists of the time corresponded in writing, together with the ad hoc postal system of the day. Today, we correspond by email in near real time. I say “near real
Flight Test Safety Fact, 25-01
What does safety sound like? That’s the first question in the first edition of the Flight Test Safety Fact in the New Year, so Happy New Year and welcome back. You also get another reminder about the looming deadlines for