Flight Test FactBook #Review: The Learjet HistoryIt started with an unexpected email from an old friend…Oct 6, 2022Oct 6, 2022
Flight Test FactBook #Review: The Dangers of Automation in Airliners“On the last night of her life, 24-year-old First Officer Rebecca Shaw was fighting a head cold.”Oct 8, 2020Oct 8, 2020
Flight Test FactBook #Review: In-Flight Simulators and Fly-by-Wire/Light DemonstratorsIt was the first thing that caught my eye when I drove onto the base. The plane had a unique paint job that caught the sun’s rays in the…Aug 9, 2019Aug 9, 2019
Flight Test FactSafety Planning in C-17 Airdrop Flight TestingThis 2010 article introduced techniques not previously used in test safety planning. The author applied the techniques for C-17A aerial…Jul 3, 2019Jul 3, 2019
Flight Test FactBook #Review: Initial Airworthiness, Second EditionFirst, do no harm. The phrase is both familiar and profound. It comes from the Latin, “Primum non nocere,” and it evokes images of medical…Sep 1, 2018Sep 1, 2018
Flight Test Fact#Reviewing: Initial AirworthinessThis review first appeared in the Society of Experimental Test Pilots (SETP) Cockpit magazine in 2016. Note: Springer has just released a…Aug 9, 2018Aug 9, 2018