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May 17, 2024 · ABOVE: Paul Edwards (left) and Paul Mulachy (right) will join the VX4 flight test team Bristol-based eVTOL (electric Vertical Take Off and Landing craft) designers and developers Vertical Aerospace has appointed two new test pilots to strengthen the company’s flight test team. Paul Edwards’ experience includes flying, evaluating and developing the Leonardo/Agusta Westland’s AW609 ...
May 15, 2024 · From November 1944 to October 1945 Pickering was serving with 151 RUA in Belgium as Chief Test Pilot. He was released from the RAF in late 1945 as a Flight Lieutenant and was awarded the AFC (gazetted 1st January 1946). Pickering served in the RAFVR from December 1945 to 1st September 1975. He went into printing and later became director of a ...
4 days ago · Chief Test Pilot George S. Welch is in the center of the front row, seated. (North American Aviation, Inc.) The YF-100A had a maximum speed of 660 miles per hour (1,062 kilometers per hour) at 43,350 feet (13,213 meters). The service ceiling was 52,600 feet (16,033 meters).
May 17, 2024 · The S model received EASA authorization to commence its flight test campaign in April 2023. Prior to its maiden flight on 28 July, the crew – test pilots Eric Delesalle and Hervé Poulin – observed a minute of silence in memory of ‘pilots and friends’ Baptiste Vignes and Simon de la Bretèche, who died testing the Integral R in 2020.
May 17, 2024 · Part one: reflecting on the first flight in an almost completely original Mk VIII. Words by Maxi Gainza and photos by John Dibbs. It’s been some time now since I flew a Spitfire for the first time, but I remember it as if it were yesterday. It was on a warm summer afternoon in Bremgarten, a quiet former NATO airbase in the south-west corner ...
May 18, 2024 · After making “The Sting,” and before making “Slap Shot,” Hill and Redford made “The Great Waldo Pepper.”. Redford stars as Pepper, a former World War I pilot who joins a flying stunt ...
May 18, 2024 · As there are at least 500 Chipmunks still airworthy, the aircraft is far from uncommon. But this particular one, Golf Alpha Oscar Tango Fox, very much is. It is a rare Mk 23, in fact the only Mk 23 still flying. Bathed in soft light from the low winter sun it practically glows in its striking yellow and black livery.
