Flight Test Safety Fact, 19-12
Did you know that there are almost 200 people in our Societies that do not have email?! (At least we know they did not provide their email address to their Society.) I found that out while counting how many “new”
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when cars drift into another lane
Can you remember back to your early childhood? You didn’t know enough to warn your dad about the car in his blind spot when he started to drift into the other lane. When you learned to drive, though, you gained
Hidden Risk by Roger Hehr
The Society of Experimental Test Pilot’s (SETP) 2019 Symposium included a presentation based on a paper by SETP’s Roger Hehr. It highlights two very relevant topics. First, it discusses unmanned flight test, which is becoming increasingly more important almost daily.
Flight Test Safety Fact, 19-11
It’s been over a month since SETP’s Annual Symposium, so I’ve had time to dig through the program, papers, and slides. Unfortunately, the news cycle doesn’t stop, so I’ve split my time between corresponding with those who presented at or
examples of the build-up approach
The build-up approach is the fundamental safety principle in flight test. Build up from the safest conditions: start from the middle of the envelope in airspeed, altitude, weight & cg. Build-up approach: Take smaller steps as you get closer to
the build-up approach
Ben Luther, a Flight Test Engineer at Gulfstream provides this definition of the Build-up Approach. What is an incremental approach in flight test? I have defined it as being: The creation of cumulative sub-steps within a test program so as
flight test flying classroom at Coventry University
Dr. Mike Bromfield, first featured in Training for Tomorrow’s Flight Test, sent this note in response to Flight Test Safety Fact, 19-10. Last week we completed this semesters’ exercises..with 63 students….we have had well over 500 students do this course…
Being there in the Beginning
the origin of SFTE – part 2 By Jon Whitworth, “Member #2” 1968 the beginning of The Society of Flight Test Engineers, but what was it like then? Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated. The Viet Nam war
the origin of SFTE – part 1
In October 1968, was it chance or serendipity that led the Society of Flight Test Engineers to begin a series of discussions that ultimately led to its formal incorporation later that year? Maybe they told stories about Jack Ridley and
A Common Taxonomy for Risk
In Flight Test Safety Fact, 19-10, Flight Test Safety Committee Chairman Tom Huff addressed the need for a common taxonomy for risk. I mention this, because I came across an article by Vahana Aero addressing the risks of autonomy in