Flight Test Safety Fact, 23-09
It’s back to school time, and Turbo makes an interesting observation that correlates what we did in school with what’s in this issue. There is a lot to read in this issue, but the simple fact that so many of
flight test
Letter to the Editor: STPA Deep Dive
Editor’s note: I reached out to Sarah for comment on my STPA Deep Dive editorial, and unfortunately I used the wrong email address and didn’t provide enough time for a response. But when she finally did see my inquiry, Sarah
Adventure, Discovery, and STPA Deep Dive
Last week, a fascinating discovery caught my eye. “Astronomers detect an ‘ultracool’ brown dwarf star burning at roughly 800 degrees, or cooler than a typical campfire; object is the coldest star on record still emitting radio waves”.1 These kinds of
Flight Test Safety Fact, 23-08
It’s officially August, which means hot weather in the United States, a season that brings back many fond memories of summer fun. One of the things I loved as a kid was the joy of discovery, and that usually included
Flight Test Safety Fact, 23-06
It’s almost summer, and things in this edition are heating up. Chia Rogerson shares a recap of the recent Flight Test Safety Workshop from Wichita, and the Textron team also earned top honors with their paper on stall testing of
Flight Test Safety Fact, 23-03
Imagine that you had magical powers, and you could apply those powers to any part of the flight test safety process? What would you apply it to? That’s one of the questions I’ll ask in this edition of the newsletter
Cook publishes Flight Test Brevity
I don’t know how much I can say about this given the title, but I will say two things. First, communication is one of the basics, and let’s admit it—we aren’t brilliant. Second, publishing a document in this way is
expressing probability qualitatively
My mother in law gave me a pack of playing cards for Christmas, and I immediately noticed the flag of Puerto Rico on the back. (She lives there now for part of the year conducting disaster relief missions on a
Flight Test Safety Fact, 23-01
“Prediction is hard, especially about the future.” This pithy quote is humorous, but in some sense, we can create the future we intend, especially when it comes to flight test safety. You will find two more pithy quotes in this
Flight Test Safety Fact, 22-12
Sometimes when I write these newsletters, I feel like I am banging two rocks together, creating sparks and attempting to direct them towards the dry, feathery threads of kindling material, hoping that something will catch fire. My hope is that