The photo above shows an Edwards AFB C-17A. It has significant flight test modifications, including many bundles of orange wire running along the sidewalls and ceiling. By Bob Piwarzyk, Society of Flight Test Engineers. Reprinted from Flight Test News, January
Congratulations to Barb Gordon, a civilian rotary wing instructor at the USN Test Pilot School (TPS), and Chief Warrant Officer 3 Sylvia Grandstaff (then) a student at the USN TPS, both SETP members, who accepted the US Army’s Broken Wing
Thirty years ago, my high school still offered a typing class. At the time, I convinced the principal of my small school to let me drop the class and add an elective math class. His great concern was that I
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
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
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
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
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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
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