Originally Posted by
vapilot2004
By the way, the Braniff example you just cited was not true. A Boeing pilot was in the seat, but not at the controls and it was not a developmental test flight. The Braniff pilot managed to remove 3 engines before they had to crash land the aircraft. In the sense of flying a 707 with 1 engine, that surely would have been in the realm of a flight "test. "
cheers!
No problem, thanks for the correction. However part of me suspects that if PPRuNe had existed back then, we'd have heard all about how Douglas had never lost a civilian test pilot in the same amount of time, how Boeing was messing with time honoured pilot tradition with these jet aircraft, and just what the hell was wrong with good old propliners anyway?