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Safety is No Accident: From 'V' Bombers to Concorde - A Flight Test Engineer's Story (Hardcover)
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Safety is No Accident: From 'V' Bombers to Concorde - A Flight Test Engineer's Story (Hardcover)
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Flying, as everyone knows, is generally regarded as the safest
means of transportation. Yet for that to be the case an enormous
amount of testing is undertaken. 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. 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. In the CAA, his role turned to
regulation, making flight test assessments of manufacturer's
prototypes and production aircraft, to check compliance with the
CAA's flight safety requirements. The scope ranged from
single-engine light aircraft to large civil transport aircraft. It
involved frequent visits to foreign manufacturers and also included
his participation in the CAA's Concorde certification flight test
programme. Flight testing involves risk. Advancements in the
understanding of aerodynamics and an increasingly professional
approach to risk management improved safety, but it would never be
risk-free. Several of the author's close friends and colleagues
died in flight test accidents during this period of rapid
aeronautical development; all on civil aircraft types. It is
because of such people that the millions of flights undertaken each
year are trouble-free.
General
Imprint: |
Air World
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
April 2020 |
Authors: |
John R. W. Smith
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Dimensions: |
246 x 172 x 27mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5267-6944-2 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-5267-6944-1 |
Barcode: |
9781526769442 |
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