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Five dedicated A400M test aircraft have notched up over 7,900 hours and 2,900 flights – with just a few test hurdles remaining

Step inside the McKinley Climatic Laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base, the world’s largest environmental test facility

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?

If flying a sailplane to the edge of space isn’t demanding enough, try doing it with a team composed almost exclusively of volunteers!

Meet Steve Brown, lead instrumentation engineer, Boeing Test & Evaluation, and the man currently responsible for securing data from the Boeing 737 MAX test program

Solar Impulse’s Christoph Schlettig on the testing challenges behind the world’s first solar-powered around-the-world flight campaign

How a new flying wing design being developed by NASA could help man to land on Mars

Step inside Honeywell’s Boeing 757 test aircraft, used for both engine and avionics testing

Cranfield University’s Peter Malkin discusses hybrid electric aircraft in advance of the Electric & Hybrid Aerospace Technology Symposium

Airbus and Boeing provide exclusive access to their respective telemetry rooms