Flight testing is a branch of aeronautical engineering that develops specialist equipment required for testing behaviour and systems of aircraft or testing...
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Boeing Crew Flight Test (Boe-CFT) is the first crewed mission of the Boeing Starliner capsule. Launched on 5 June 2024, the mission flew a crew of two...
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Eleven test flights were of single-stage Starship spacecraft flying low-altitude tests (2019–2021), while four were orbital trajectory flights of the...
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The SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 4 (IFT-4) was the fourth integrated flight test of a prototype Starship launch vehicle, the world's most powerful...
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Integrated Flight Test 2 (IFT-2) was the second integrated flight test of SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. SpaceX performed the flight test on November...
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integrated flight test 1 (IFT-1) was the first integrated flight test of the SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. SpaceX performed the flight test on April 20...
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Boeing Starliner (section First orbital flight test)
contract round. The first crewed test flight test was initially planned to occur in 2017. The first unmanned Orbital Flight Test did not occur until December...
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integrated flight test 3 (IFT-3) was the third integrated flight test of the SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. SpaceX performed the flight test on March 14...
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SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 5 (IFT-5) will be the fifth integrated flight test of a prototype Starship launch vehicle. The prototype vehicles...
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(F-22) 416th Flight Test Squadron: (F-16) 419th Flight Test Squadron: (B-52H, B-1, B-2) 445th Flight Test Squadron: (Initial Flight Test Operations, T-38)...
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Area 51 (redirect from Air Force Flight Test Center (Detachment 3))
development and testing of experimental aircraft and weapons systems. The USAF and CIA acquired the site in 1955, primarily for flight testing the Lockheed...
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SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 6 (IFT-6) will be the sixth integrated flight test of a prototype Starship launch vehicle. The prototype vehicles...
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The Boeing Starliner Orbital Flight Test (also known as Boe-OFT) was the first orbital mission of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, conducted by Boeing...
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The 486th Flight Test Squadron is a secretive United States Air Force unit with a misleading designation, assigned to Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, which...
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TestFlight is an online service for over-the-air installation and testing of mobile applications, currently owned by Apple Inc. and only offered to developers...
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SpaceX Starship (redirect from Starship test flight rocket)
in development with an iterative and incremental approach, involving test flights of prototype vehicles. As a successor to SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Falcon...
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A flight test engineer (FTE) is an engineer involved in the flight testing of prototype aircraft or aircraft systems. The flight test engineer generally...
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Mojave Air and Space Port (redirect from Mojave Airport Civilian Flight Test Center)
experimental test flight vehicle, crashes during a test flight, killing one of the pilots and injuring the other. May 3, 2017 - First suborbital test flight of...
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Approach and Landing Tests The Approach and Landing Tests were a series of sixteen taxi and flight trials of the prototype Space Shuttle Enterprise that...
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Edwards Air Force Base (redirect from Muroc Flight Test Base)
veteran and test pilot Capt. Glen Edwards. Edwards is the home of the Air Force Test Center, Air Force Test Pilot School, and NASA's Armstrong Flight Research...
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SpaceX Dragon 2 (redirect from Dragon flight abort)
its uncrewed flight test (DM-1), refurbish the flight test vehicle, then conduct the in-flight abort test prior to the crew flight test. Using the same...
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Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (section Flight tests)
Verification Test CMCM: Critical Measurements and Countermeasures CTV: Control Test Vehicle FTG: Flight Test Ground-Based Interceptor FTX: Flight Test Other...
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DRDO Abhyas (section Flight testing)
DRDO successfully test fired Abhyas from Integrated Test Range, Odisha on 13 May 2019. The test was conducted to check low altitude flight capability with...
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during a test flight. The electrical fire caused some systems to fail before landing. Following this incident, Boeing suspended flight testing on November...
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The 420th Flight Test Squadron is an active United States Air Force squadron. The squadron was first activated as the 420th Night Fighter Squadron, one...
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Boeing X-51 Waverider (section Powered flight testing)
completed its first powered hypersonic flight on 26 May 2010. After two unsuccessful test flights, the X-51 completed a flight of over six minutes and reached...
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General Electric GE9X (section Flight testing)
ground-tested in 2016, with flight testing to begin in 2017 and certification happening in 2018. Because of the delays, the first flight test occurred...
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2002, the second successful ALI intercept occurred during the FM-3 flight test mission. Initial Aegis BMD success may have contributed to President...
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Boeing Starliner Calypso (section Flights)
December 2019, Calypso launched on the Boeing Orbital Flight Test mission, an uncrewed test flight of Starliner to the International Space Station. The...
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VSS Enterprise (section Flight test program)
powered flight in April 2013. Richard Branson said it "couldn't have gone more smoothly". Enterprise was destroyed during a powered test flight on 31 October...
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