Safety is No Accident: From 'V' Bombers to Concorde
Safety is No Accident: From 'V' Bombers to Concorde Flying, as everyone knows, is generally regarded as the safest means of transportation. Central to this, of course, are the test pilots, who fly…
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Safety is No Accident: From 'V' Bombers to Concorde
Flying, as everyone knows, is generally regarded as the safest means of transportation. Central to this, of course, are the test pilots, who fly the aircraft, but it is the men behind the scenes who deal with the technical aspects of the aircraft - the flight test observers and engineers.Numerous books have been written by Test Pilots, but few, if any, from the perspective of an Aeronautical Engineer working as Flight Test Observer/Engineer in partnership with the Test Pilot. Yet for that to be the case an enormous amount of testing is undertaken.
In the CAA, his This book is an account of the author's flight-testing career, from the 1960s to early 1980s, at Avro and the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).During the author's time at Avro, he flew on the development and certification test flights of the Avro 748, 748MF, Shackletons, Nimrod and Handley-Page Victor tanker.
Running from Safety
From What Is to What If
Crossing to Safety
No Condition is Permanent