Abort!
“Ten seconds,” I said. “Nine.” “…eight.” “…seven.” The silence pounded in my ears. “Six…five…four…” I could think of nothing else but the digital ticking of the clock in the heads up display (HUD), right in front of me. I don’t
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what problem are you trying to solve?
Someone asked this question: “what problem are you trying to solve?” That’s not an easy question to answer without the appropriate context. The list of notes and references below all contain “pain points” or examples of organizations doing it better,
flight test safety papers
I want to, and intend to, provide commentary on these papers, but for now too many people have told me, “I never heard about that one.” Risk Awareness: A New Framework for Risk Management in Flight Test Systems Theoretic Process
24 Dead in 15 Accidents
The numbers vary slightly depending on who reports them and what accidents we categorize as “flight test,” but the data send the same message. Tom Huff, Flight Test Safety Committee Chairman, reported these facts during the 2018 Flight Test Safety
Flight Test Fact, 19-01
Recently, I heard a long-time USAF member of SETP say, “I never heard about the Flight Test Safety Committee.” I was speechless. This newsletter is the first step in fixing that problem, but there is another part of that problem
call for topics
Updated 20190104. Future articles and call for topics or submissions. Flight Test Fact 19-01, a newsletter published for the Flight Test Safety Committee (coming to an email inbox near you in January 2019) Reach Everyone – a qualitative statement of
just the facts
You are an expert at gathering facts and making technical observations. Admittedly, I say that based on a reasonable supposition about who will end up reading these articles. We like data, and often we want just the facts. John
Fokker Flight Test Patch
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
Build the Scaffold: The Future of SFTE
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
Editorial Ethics
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