A flight test engineer (FTE) is an engineer involved in the flight testing of prototype aircraft or aircraft systems. The flight test engineer generally...
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single test flight for an aircraft is known as a Test Card. This will consist of a description of the Test Points to be flown. The flight test engineer will...
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Force Test Pilot School (USAF TPS) is the Air Force's advanced flight training school that trains experimental test pilots, flight test engineers, and...
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Stockton Rush (category 21st-century American engineers)
Douglas as a flight test engineer on their F-15 program. He later was a board member for BlueView Technologies and the Museum of Flight. In 2009, he created...
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Airbus Industrie Flight 129 was an Airbus Industrie A330-321 test flight that ended in a crash on 30 June 1994 at Toulouse–Blagnac Airport, killing all...
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experimental test pilots, flight test engineers, and flight test flight officers in the processes and techniques of aircraft and systems testing and evaluation...
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aeronautical engineer. After assignments as flight test engineer, stress analyst, aerodynamicist, and weight engineer, he became chief research engineer in 1938...
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Ellison Onizuka (category U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School alumni)
1946 – January 28, 1986) was an American astronaut, engineer, and U.S. Air Force flight test engineer from Kealakekua, Hawaii, who successfully flew into...
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U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School, which trains test pilots, flight-test engineers, and flight-test navigators. The center has tested all the aircraft...
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Flight Test Engineers, Experimental Test Remotely Piloted Aircraft Pilots, and Experimental Test Combat Systems Officers. The STC develops Space Test...
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was inside of B-17, B-24, B-25 bombers and had four years as a flight test engineer. Besides creating interiors and exterior of the Enterprise, Jefferies...
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Experimental Test Pilots and the Society of Flight Test Engineers. The school trains test pilots and flight test engineers. It is the first civilian test pilot...
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Jerry L. Ross (category U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School alumni)
aircraft. As chief B-1 flight test engineer, he was also responsible for training and supervising all Air Force B-1 flight test engineer crew members and for...
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The Empire Test Pilots' School (ETPS) is a British training school for test pilots and flight test engineers of fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft at...
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sites of strategic interest. The U-2 was tested at Groom Lake in the Nevada desert, and the Flight Test Engineer in charge was Joseph F. Ware, Jr. The first...
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Joseph F. Ware Jr. (category American aerospace engineers)
Fulton "Joe" Ware Jr. (November 8, 1916 – April 23, 2012) was a flight test engineer at Clarence "Kelly" Johnson's famed Skunk Works in the Lockheed Corporation...
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Guillaume Faury (category French aerospace engineers)
helicopter flight-test engineer with over 1,300 flying hours. Working at Eurocopter (now Airbus Helicopters) for ten years, Faury was the chief engineer of the...
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and management from Capella University. Afterwards she worked as a flight test engineer for the United States Air Force. She is married to Stephen Andrew...
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Wichita, Kansas, and was hired to work as a flight test engineer. In May 1944 Axton made an historic flight when she was the first woman to fly a Boeing...
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Jack Ridley (pilot) (category American test pilots)
aeronautical engineer, USAF test pilot and chief of the U.S. Air Force's Flight Test Engineering Laboratory. He helped develop and test many Cold War...
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Elliot See (category American test pilots)
General Electric (GE) in 1956 as a flight test engineer after his tour of duty, and became a group leader and experimental test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base...
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criteria used by test pilots and flight test engineers to evaluate the handling qualities of aircraft while performing a task during a flight test. The scale...
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Curtis (1 February 1915 – 21 July 2014) was an English aviator, flight test engineer, air racing pilot, and sportswoman. Curtis was born on 1 February...
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Force Base, California. The 412th Test Wing plans, conducts, analyzes, and reports on all flight and ground testing of aircraft, weapons systems, software...
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Edmund T. Allen (category Victims of flight test accidents)
Allen (January 4, 1896 – February 18, 1943) was a pioneer of modern flight test who flew for nearly every major American aircraft manufacturer and took...
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2 Indian Air Force test pilots, Wing Commander Praveen Kotekoppa and Wing Commander Dipesh Shah along with a Flight Test Engineer Squadron Leader Ilayaraja...
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Supersonic aircraft (redirect from Supersonic flight)
(flight engineer), and Richard H. Edwards (flight test engineer). This was the first intentional supersonic flight by a civilian airliner, and the only one...
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Edwards Air Force Base (redirect from Muroc Flight Test Base)
veteran and test pilot Capt. Glen Edwards. Edwards is the home of the Air Force Test Center, Air Force Test Pilot School, and NASA's Armstrong Flight Research...
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airliners may happen at dedicated flight-test engineer stations on board) and for analysis post-flight. The ultimate aim of testing is to demonstrate the aircraft...
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produced and modified aircraft with specific maneuvers, known as flight test techniques. Test flying as a systematic activity started during the First World...
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