Responsibilities Manage flight test operations for the Electra EL-2 aircraft, including all aspects of flight test instrumentation, data collection, test planning, and test execution. Maintain flight ...

What happens when the pace of aerospace innovation outstrips the capacity of even America’s most storied test wing to keep up ...

New experimental test pilots, known as XPs, Lt. Col. Mark Salvati and Capt. Kenny Dailey and current RTC Department of the Army flight test engineer, known as an FTE, Matthew ‘Andrew’ Perka ...

The Test Engineering team works across the entire spectrum of products ranging from Altius, Lattice, Ghost UAS, Sentry Tower, cUAS and our other platforms. Our team conducts full system level ...

Test pilots ensure aircraft safety through rigorous flight testing, identifying and reporting irregularities for engineers to address. Becoming a test pilot typically requires extensive flight ...

Sheryka, the company's chief flight test engineer, and Tristan Brandenburg, its chief test pilot, recently joined The Fighter Pilot Podcast to discuss the XB-1 Supersonic demonstrator program.

Some 11.5 minutes into the flight — the 12th overall for the XB-1 — at an altitude of around 35,000 feet (10,668 meters), the test plane exceeded Mach 1, the speed of sound, marking the first ...

Boom Supersonic will livestream its XB-1 prototype breaking through the sound barrier. The second series of supersonic flight tests are scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Monday as part of Boom “scaling up ...

But the XB-1’s first supersonic test flight – conducted on 28 January – demonstrated an effect known as Mach cut-off whereby a sonic boom, under certain conditions, does not reach the ground ...