The latest in Bombardier’s line of Global business aircraft, the Global 7000 achieved first flight in November 2016. Steve Patrick, director, flight test operations and safety, Global 7000 Flight Test Team, discusses the type’s busy, five-aircraft flight test program
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The UK’s National Physical Laboratory has developed the first high temperature solid particle erosion test to incorporate metrology
Embraer has passed through the 25% point in its 2,000-hour E2 trials campaign – its nine-prototype effort should see the next-generation airliner variants enter service in 2018, 2019 and 2020
Will NASA’s X-57 electric research airplane go down in history as the aircraft that helped define a new, greener, cleaner, electric age of aviation?
Meet Rens Ubels, principal project engineer in the structures testing and evaluation department at the Netherlands Aerospace Centre
History was created earlier this year when the Colombian Air Force conducted wing static testing of its new trainer aircraft, the Calima T-90, marking the first full-scale aircraft test ever undertaken in Colombia
Gilles Freaud, head of test instrumentation components at Airbus, discusses the testing challenges and trends facing Europe’s largest commercial aircraft manufacturer
Smart testing for a smart fighter: the Gripen E is being developed and tested to ensure maximum value and efficiency
The latest testing from the C-130J Hercules Wing Fatigue Test Program (WFTP) has pioneered a number of innovative non-destructive inspection techniques
Just how long will it be until we see hybrid and electric aircraft in commercial service with airlines? Airbus Group’s Andy Anderson says it could be sooner than you think