Flight Test Reports
 

Here is a thought for the flight test forum: do we have access to Flight Test Report information on the web? I have not yet spun up my search engine to enquire, but it would certainly be interesting to find out if such information has or indeed ever will be released; has anybody else tried?
Another thought: this years tp dinner at BDN appears to have slipped into next year; rumour has it that a March date has been favoured - sad to miss 99 but we shall all look forward to the millenium event.
Any tps with insider knowledge of the 767 like to comment; thrust reversers appear flavour of the moment but of course that is all just conjecture for the time being.

DC,

I've never found anything particularly informative on the web in the way of FT reports - I've certainly gone looking quite hard occasionally.

The one little glimmer of usefulness is that the FAA post their manuals, including some quite useful FT manuals such as AC23-8 (light aircraft flight testing) or their homebuilt flight test manual on a US gov. website somewhere (give me until I'm back in the office on Monday and I can give you the web address).

There are also a couple of snippets on little aeroplane testing by Darrol Stinton and Bill Brooks on the RAeS website at http://www.raes.org.uk/light-av/index.htm

Regards,

G

I've never found any Flight Test REports on the 'Net either, but to be honest I wouldn't expect to since in almost every case they are likely to be proprietary (or otherwise commercially sensitive) and/or classified.

Good Luck looking, though!

Genghis, you wouldn't be wearing a bowtie, would you? ;-)

Regards,

BossEyed
8-)

I have been known to, doesn't get caught in canopy seals and rotating machinery. But not today, it's Sunday and I've spent all weekend in my dressing gown plotting longstab curves (what a sad life I lead).

By a complete co-incidence, I was hunting down some info on tailless aircraft last night and found a couple of flight test reports on some flying wing designs linked from
http://www.halcyon.com/bsquared/winglinks.html

G
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The FAA manuals can be downloaded from:-

ftp://ftp.fedworld.gov/pub/faa-oai/

Thanks Guys, some info available; I shall dial up the sites and see what is on offer.

During endless hours of research for my PhD I sometimes came across NASA Technical Reports or Memoranda in the dungeons of the University library which detailed interesting flight tests performed on NASA aircraft.

Apart from those, in four years of looking for a F/A-18 aerodynamic model and an in-service flight control law, the closest I ever came to anything useful was an old Simulink diagram of the NASA 2 control law on the NASA Dryden WWW site which I couldn't make head or tail of... (I even went to NASA Langley in Virginia to pester them, but to no avail - "You need to speak to the USN Sir!")

Mind you, that might not be NASA's fault...

As has already been said in this thread, "Give up!" You might as well be trying to get your hands on weapons grade plutonium.

[This message has been edited by SR71 (edited 08 January 2000).]