Flight simulation is undoubtedly a valuable part of the aerospace testing process, but has technological development in the field stagnated?
Author: Opinion Writers
The Australian Defence Force’s Air Warfare Centre has developed a non-intrusive flight test instrumentation solution to flight testing
A new Searchmaster airborne surveillance radar is currently being tested as a key component in extending the operational life of the French Navy’s Dassault Aviation Atlantique 2 (ATL2) maritime patrol aircraft
A complex international program to secure a Supplemental Type Certificate for a Fokker 100 modified as a flying testbed provides a good lesson in effective cooperation
A favored saying of safety engineers is, ‘There are no new accidents, only new victims’. Does this apply to aerospace testing in the modern era?
With the MRJ having resumed flight testing, we talk to program management to discuss progress
Five dedicated A400M test aircraft have notched up over 7,900 hours and 2,900 flights – with just a few test hurdles remaining
From the outside, a career in aerospace testing seems as glamorous and exciting as ever. Is this really the case? Are we in a golden age? And are those that disagree guilty of looking back through rose-tinted spectacles?
Peter Kelley, a former senior metrologist at the National Weights & Measures Laboratory and training development manager at the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS), takes a look at the difference between calibration and testing, at metrological traceability and uncertainty in measurement, and considers the significance of possible measurement errors in final test and calibration results
NASA and other leading aerospace companies and agencies are determined to develop a low sonic boom aircraft – but what are some of the testing challenges involved?