Flight Test Safety Fact, 22-09
I spent part of the holiday on Monday shooting sport clays with a shotgun. Before we started, I was talking to one of the instructors who learned the skill while hunting ducks. That’s a tough way to learn on the
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Flight Test Safety Fact, 22-07
The other day I ran into my stats professor, and I said, “what are the chances?” Almost unbelievably, I happened upon my geography teacher from elementary, and she said, “small world.”** I joke, but understanding the limitations of the 2d
Flight Test Safety Fact, 22-04
What is the first thought that goes through your mind when you read about a flight test accident? That’s probably the kind of question we all feel comfortable asking, but do we ever consider what goes through our hearts when
Flight Test Safety Fact, 22-02
Words have the power of life and death. With a single word, we can command the abort of a dangerous flight test maneuver, but the power of our words extends beyond the cockpit and the control room to the cubicle
Flight Test Safety Fact, 21-09
Ever wonder what life is like as a hang glider test pilot? (I’m not sure I had that particular thought, but I’ve often imagined what it would be like to fly a hang glider.) This month’s feature article is written
Flight Test Safety Fact, 21-03
If you could travel back in time (something Turbo discusses inside this month’s edition) to continue your work as a flight test professional, but you can’t tell anyone that you are from the future, and further suppose that all you
EASA issues VTOL Means of Compliance Proposal
On 25 May, EASA published document number MOC SC-VTOL Issue 1, “Proposed Means of Compliance with the Special Condition VTOL” on their website. Comments are due by July 24, and I hope our readers will take time to look it
counting is hard, part 2
In the previous post on this topic, we suggested that counting is hard and used the example of counting words in a book. There are three heuristics for communicating uncertainty (3Q) that we will use to help us organize our
counting is hard
On my desk is a novel written by one of my favorite authors. It has a black cover with an image that appears to be the x-ray of a starfish. There are two-hundred and forty three pages in the book,
Machine Learning Techniques Applied to Flight Test Data Evaluation
I mentioned this paper in the Flight Test Safety Fact 19-12 in the limited survey of AI in Flight Test. The authors have generously agreed to share it here. From the authors: This paper proposes an application of machine-learning methods