Five dedicated A400M test aircraft have notched up over 7,900 hours and 2,900 flights – with just a few test hurdles remaining
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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?
Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. announced on February 3, 2016, that the Gulfstream G500 has completed flutter…
If flying a sailplane to the edge of space isn’t demanding enough, try doing it with a team composed almost exclusively of volunteers!
The development rate of consumer electronics has been meteoric over the past few decades, whereas aircraft undergoing testing are often fundamentally unchanged. Does this huge technological advance make aerospace testing a formality in this day and age?
Airbus Defence and Space (ADS) has delivered its first structural test article (STA) of the…
A NASA ‘human-rated’ rocket has completed all steps needed to clear a critical design review…
Duplicates of optical components to be used in NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have…
A spate of recent air accidents has been attributed to human factors. Is this an emerging trend or simply history repeating itself?
The world’s first all-electric propulsion satellite, built by Boeing for Bermuda-based ABS, is now operational…