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
In flight test as in other disciplines, measurement and calculation result in different types of errors. Some of these errors are not systematic but are random. Often we call these measurement errors noise, and it is these errors that are
Last time, we left the reader with a question under the heading “Assess the frequency of potential outcomes.” This post tries to adequately answer that question. When I was sitting down in front of my book, I would count the
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,
More than a year ago, I heard a long-time USAF member of SETP say, “I never heard about the Flight Test Safety Committee” (an admission that took many of our Committee members by surprise). That conversation was the catalyst for