Daily fact about experimental flight test, test pilots, flight test engineers, and flight related applications of engineering and mathematics by @markjonesjr
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Happy break the sound barrier day to those who celebrate!
On Oct 14, 1947, Yeager piloted Glamorous Glennis, a flight test orange airplane, to supersonic speeds.
youtu.be/V8p5N0k3eC4
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10/7/1932 First flight #flighttest of the Stipa Caproni "flying barrel" ducted fan test bed
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stipa-…
| Primer vuelo del Stipa Caproni fue el 10/7/1932 via @josemanzella
Bye Aerospace’s all-electric EFlyer2 makes first flight, in Colorado on 20260924
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urbanairmobilitynews.com/fix…
With a link to a free digital copy of this antique book
The absolute BEST and WORST of AI applied to #flighttest and hearts and minds.
flighttestfact.com/flight-te…
It's like a carnival for your brain!
Includes a vignette about the B-52 crash
A take you wouldn't expect--one you should read!
Yes, an AI video appears in this month's "flight test safety" newsletter...
cc @heavypulp
Artificial ✌🏻 Intelligence ✌🏻
See the output of a request to plot NOTAMs on an airport diagram below.
I thought about including the actual airport diagram, but I believe the reader can see that the diagram is so bad..
The book "Test Pilot" written by Jimmy Collins in the first half of the 20th century is available for free by Project Gutenberg. It details the earliest account of the harrowing vocation.
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Blast off into the summer with more space, the celestial kind, in this edition of the Flight Test Safety Fact, and lots of (white) space to report on all the things FTSC has done or did at the Flight Test Safety Workshop.
flighttestfact.com/flight-te…
Gordon Cooper's splashdown
On May 16, 1963, uncertainty strikes again. Humans must navigate the failures of engineering to return safety to earth.
This is the story of Gordo Cooper and Faith 7.
spaceagechronicle.com/cooper…