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Book Synopsis Classic Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base - A Career in Test and Evaluation by : U. S. Military
Download or read book Classic Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base - A Career in Test and Evaluation written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-05 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique USAF publication presents a fascinating oral history of Charles "Pete" Adolph, who retired as Director of Test and Evaluation in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition and Technology) on 31 January 1994. This completed more than 30 years of federal service--almost all of it within the challenging field of test and evaluation (T&E). Pete--as he was widely known throughout the Department of Defense testing community--enjoyed a remarkable career. It began in the late 1950s, as the heroic era of flight test in the first decade of the jet age was drawing to a close. Pete then played an increasingly prominent role in the transformation of flight testing into a systematic discipline using the latest in information technology to evaluate sophisticated weapon systems. His government career culminated as a senior director at the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). There, in the Pentagon, he brought his many years of engineering and management experience in the field to bear upon the formulation of policies for the acquisition and testing of weapon systems in the post-cold-war era. The text that follows began as a series of five oral history interviews conducted in the Office of the Air Force Historian between 29 July 1993 and 15 April 1994. Ms. Pauline Tubbs of the United States Air Force Historical Research Agency at Maxwell Air Force Base (AFB), Alabama, expertly transcribed these interviews from approximately eight hours of audio tape. Mr. Lawrence R. Benson, the Air Force Historian's Assistant for Field Programs (and previously the Director of Research Services at the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center), organized, revised, and edited the transcript-- adding explanatory material in brackets or footnotes as appropriate. Mr. Adolph was accompanied at most of the interviews by Mr. Douglas Nation of the 46th Test Wing at Eglin AFB, Florida, who was on a special assignment to the OSD T&E Directorate. Dr. James O. Young, Historian of the Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC), and his staff at Edwards AFB, California, helped with details on flight test. Although Mr. Adolph's responsibilities within the OSD encompassed testing of all types of systems throughout the four armed services, our interview focuses most sharply on Air Force flight testing at Edwards. This is where Pete spent the majority of his career, and where I first met him in 1980 after becoming the AFFTC Historian.Note: The images reproduced in this book are from the best available copy of the original historical document.Contents: Classic Flight Testing At Edwards * Concurrent Testing And Production: The Case Of The F-111 * The Quest For Improved Aircraft Performance: Departure And Stall/Spin Testing * User Requirements And Operational Testing * Combined Testing With Contractors * The Government's Role In Developing Technology * Evolving Challenges In Flight Testing * The Culture Of Flight Testing * Migration From Contractor To Government Test Facilities * Importance Of The Private Sector * Integration Of Test Ranges * Improving Test Systems And Instrumentation * Test And Evaluation Consolidation And The Reliance Program * Interagency Testing * Test Management Oversight * Electronic Combat Testing * Software Testing And Human Factors * Post-Cold-War Implications * Glossary
Book Synopsis A Career in Test and Evaluation by : Charles E. Adolph
Download or read book A Career in Test and Evaluation written by Charles E. Adolph and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Career in Test and Evaluation: Reflections and Observations by :
Download or read book A Career in Test and Evaluation: Reflections and Observations written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles E. "Pete" Adolph retired as Director of Test and Evaluation in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition and Technology) on 31 January 1994. This completed more than 30 years of federal service almost all of it within the challenging field of test and evaluation (T & E). Pete-as he was widely known throughout the Department of Defense testing community- enjoyed a remarkable career. It began in the late 1950s, as the heroic era of flight test in the first decade of the jet age was drawing to a close. Pete then played an increasingly prominent role in the transformation of flight testing into a systematic discipline using the latest in information technology to evaluate sophisticated weapon systems. His government career culminated as a senior director at the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). There, in the Pentagon. he brought his many years of engineering and management experience in the field to bear upon the formulation of policies for the acquisition and testing of weapon systems in the post-cold-war era. The text that follows began as a series of five oral history interviews conducted in the Office of the Air Force Historian between 29 July 1993 and 15 April 1994. Ms. Pauline Tubbs of the United States Air Force Historical Research Agency at Maxwell Air Force Base (AFB), Alabama, expertly transcribed these interviews from approximately eight hours of audio tape. Mr. Lawrence R. Benson, the Air Force Historian's Assistant for Field Programs (and previously the Director of Research Services at the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center), organized, revised, and edited the transcript adding explanatory material in brackets or footnotes as appropriate. Mr. Adolph was accompanied at most of the interviews by Mr. Douglas Nation of the 46th Test Wing at Eglin AFB, Florida, who was on a special assignment to the OSD T & E Directorate.
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Book Synopsis Contrails Over the Mojave by : George J. Marrett
Download or read book Contrails Over the Mojave written by George J. Marrett and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Marrett takes readers into the cockpit as he "goes vertical" in a T-38 Talon, completes high-G maneuvers in an F-4C Phantom, and conducts wet-runway landing tests in the accident-prone F-111A Aardvark. He writes about Col. "Silver Fox" Stephens setting a world speed record in the YF-12 Blackbird and Bob Gilliland testing speed stalls in the SR-71 spy plane, but he also relives stories of crashes that killed test pilot friends. He recounts dead-sticking a T-38 to a landing on Rogers Dry Lake after a twin-engine failure and conducting dangerous tail hook barrier testing in a fighter jet without a canopy. A mysterious UFO sighting in the night sky above the Mojave Desert, known as "The Edwards Encounter" also receives Marrett's attention. Whether the author is assessing a new aircraft's performance or describing the experiences of test pilots as they routinely faced the possibility of death, this look at the golden age of flight testing both thrills and informs."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Flight Test Archive by : Air Force Flight Test Center (U.S.)
Download or read book Flight Test Archive written by Air Force Flight Test Center (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documentation: flight test reports, pilot reports, technical reports and official correspondence on aircraft and aircraft systems; annual historical reports on Flight Test Center and Edwards Air Force Base; documentary data on the history of flight testing, biographical information, and information on Edwards AFB and environs. Also the Lt. Gen. Laurence Carbee Craigie papers; the Maj. Gen. Osmond J. Ritland papers; and the Col. John P. Stapp, M.D., Ph. D., Sc. D. papers. Photographs (ca. 30,000 items): U.S. military aircraft, people, facilities and buildings, and Rogers Dry Lake area. Videotapes (ca. 2,000 casettes): aircraft and aviation-related subjects. And filmstrips (ca. 4,000 films, 3.5 million ft.): aircraft, mostly related to aircraft flight testing, and aviation-related subjects.
Book Synopsis A Career in Test and Evaluation by : Charles E. Adolph
Download or read book A Career in Test and Evaluation written by Charles E. Adolph and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Test Pilot by : Keith Elliot Greenberg
Download or read book Test Pilot written by Keith Elliot Greenberg and published by Blackbirch Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1997 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the training and career of Major Rex Bailey, who tests military airplanes for the United States Air Force at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
Book Synopsis Test and Evaluation of Aircraft Avionics and Weapon Systems by : Robert E. McShea
Download or read book Test and Evaluation of Aircraft Avionics and Weapon Systems written by Robert E. McShea and published by AIAA Education. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book serves as both text and practical reference for anyone involved in avionics and weapons system evaluation and testing, in the air and on the ground. Whether you are training pilots and personnel or actually planning to test systems, this book will provide you with the fundamentals and practical information you need to get the job done. The book is a compilation of experiences and methods from the author's more than 25 years in the business, and his interaction with test pilots and test engineers over the last 15 years as an Instructor/Director at the National Test Pilot School in Mojave, California. It was also reviewed by more than a dozen voluntary experts from the military and industry to ensure that all critical components were covered properly. Their comments and suggestions were integrated into the text toward the goal of creating this invaluable textbook and companion to the fighter or heavy aircraft test team, no matter their geographical location. Lessons learned, good and bad, are addressed in each chapter so readers can avoid the pitfalls common to test and evaluation of these systems.Exercises at the end of each chapter provide instructors with the ability to reinforce critical concepts, and all the 'war stories' in the book are true.
Download or read book Air Power History written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chant militaire dédié aux soldats français by :
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Book Synopsis AFFTC Instruction 99-1, Test and Evaluation Test Plans by :
Download or read book AFFTC Instruction 99-1, Test and Evaluation Test Plans written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most test plans fall within the categories of management test plans and detailed test plans. Management plans for major programs are normally called System Test Plans and contain flight test management concepts and general (as opposed to detailed) test plans that only identify the types of tests to be accomplished. Test Information Sheets (TISs) are actually appendices to test plans and contain sufficient information for use by a flight test engineer to develop flight test cards and for management to discern the overall technical approach being taken. Therefore, TISs are frequently the key documents that describe the specific tests to be accomplished and how they will be accomplished. In order to ensure proper and adequate preparation and planning, a thorough technical review is required of all Test Plans and associated TISs. A major revision to an existing plan must also be reviewed. In addition, a safety review of all TISs is required to identify potential hazards and determine minimizing procedures in accordance with AFFTCI 91-5 for all tests utilizing AFFTC assets. Both technical and safety reviews must be completed before testing begins.
Book Synopsis Operational Test by : David Gledhill
Download or read book Operational Test written by David Gledhill and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Introduction to Aircraft Flight Mechanics by : Thomas R. Yechout
Download or read book Introduction to Aircraft Flight Mechanics written by Thomas R. Yechout and published by AIAA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a 15-year successful approach to teaching aircraft flight mechanics at the US Air Force Academy, this text explains the concepts and derivations of equations for aircraft flight mechanics. It covers aircraft performance, static stability, aircraft dynamics stability and feedback control.
Book Synopsis Technology and the Air Force by : Jacob Neufeld
Download or read book Technology and the Air Force written by Jacob Neufeld and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of a symposium co-sponsored by the Air Force Historical Foundation and the Air Force History and Museums Program. The symposium covered relevant Air Force technologies ranging from the turbo-jet revolution of the 1930s to the stealth revolution of the 1990s. Illustrations.
Book Synopsis Sierra Hotel : flying Air Force fighters in the decade after Vietnam by :
Download or read book Sierra Hotel : flying Air Force fighters in the decade after Vietnam written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 1999, only a few weeks before the U.S. Air Force spearheaded NATO's Allied Force air campaign against Serbia, Col. C.R. Anderegg, USAF (Ret.), visited the commander of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe. Colonel Anderegg had known Gen. John Jumper since they had served together as jet forward air controllers in Southeast Asia nearly thirty years earlier. From the vantage point of 1999, they looked back to the day in February 1970, when they first controlled a laser-guided bomb strike. In this book Anderegg takes us from "glimmers of hope" like that one through other major improvements in the Air Force that came between the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. Always central in Anderegg's account of those changes are the people who made them. This is a very personal book by an officer who participated in the transformation he describes so vividly. Much of his story revolves around the Fighter Weapons School at Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), Nevada, where he served two tours as an instructor pilot specializing in guided munitions.
Book Synopsis Flying beyond the stall by : Douglas A. Joyce
Download or read book Flying beyond the stall written by Douglas A. Joyce and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The X-31 Enhanced Fighter Maneuverability Demonstrator was unique among experimental aircraft. A joint effort of the United States and Germany, the X-31 was the only X-plane to be designed, manufactured, and flight tested as an international collaboration. It was also the only X-plane to support two separate test programs conducted years apart, one administered largely by NASA and the other by the U.S. Navy, as well as the first X-plane ever to perform at the Paris Air Show. Flying Beyond the Stall begins by describing the government agencies and private-sector industries involved in the X-31 program, the genesis of the supermaneuverability concept and its initial design breakthroughs, design and fabrication of two test airframes, preparation for the X-31's first flight, and the first flights of Ship #1 and Ship #2. Subsequent chapters discuss envelope expansion, handling qualities (especially at high angles of attack), and flight with vectored thrust. The book then turns to the program's move to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center and actual flight test data. Additional tasking, such as helmet-mounted display evaluations, handling quality studies, aerodynamic parameter estimation, and a "tailless" study are also discussed.The book describes how, in the aftermath of a disastrous accident with Ship #1 in 1995, Ship #2 was prepared for its outstanding participation in the Paris Air Show. The aircraft was then shipped back to Edwards AFB and put into storage until the late 1990s, when it was refurbished for participation in the U. S. Navy's VECTOR program. The book ends with a comprehensive discussion of lessons learned and includes an Appendix containing detailed information.
