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TONY BLACKMAN
The well illustrated book Flight Testing to Win
tells the fascinating story of the author's lifetime spent in the Aerospace Industry as chief test pilot, as avionics engineer and then as technical member of the UK Civil Aviation Authority. The book includes testing the Vulcan, flying at the Farnborough Air Display and selling the Avro 748 around the world. There is also a chapter describing his flying with the legendary Howard Hughes when he was in England.
Safety and accidents are recurrent themes of Flight
Testing to Win and the author is writing
aviation fiction books exploring these two themes. See web site below for details on A Flight
Too Far, The Final Flight , and The Right Choice. All three books feature Peter Talbert, aviation expert and accident investigator. Go Fiction Books Web Site
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Flight Testing to Win
No aircraft is absolutely safe. This book is about Aviation, from learning to fly, becoming a test pilot, flight testing, demonstrating on some of the third world’s worst airfields, then specializing in Avionics and finally joining the Board of the UK Civil Aviation Authority, helping to formulate the regulations that the author had spent so many years living by. Many stories are told, including flying with the legendary Howard Hughes when the world thought him a mad recluse, and testing many aircraft including all three V Bombers, an almost unique experience. The book, well illustrated, makes the point that flying is inherently risky, that regulations always try to quantify acceptable risk, that safety is a cost, and that test pilots have to sell their aircraft and should not try to make an aircraft safer than the rules require. It emphasizes the almost unbelievable changes in aviation in one working lifetime, whilst painting a picture of a much simpler world, now gone beyond recall.
Print: $14.89
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Flight Testing to Win
No aircraft is absolutely safe. This book is about Aviation, from learning to fly, becoming a test pilot, flight testing, demonstrating on some of the third world’s worst airfields, then specializing in Avionics and finally joining the Board of the UK Civil Aviation Authority, helping to formulate the regulations that the author had spent so many years living by. Many stories are told, including flying with the legendary Howard Hughes when the world thought him a mad recluse, and testing many aircraft including all three V Bombers, an almost unique experience. The book,very well illustrated, makes the point that flying is inherently risky, that regulations always try to quantify acceptable risk, that safety is a cost, and that test pilots have to sell their aircraft and should not try to make an aircraft safer than the rules require. It emphasizes the almost unbelievable changes in aviation in one working lifetime, whilst painting a picture of a much simpler world, now gone beyond recall.
Print: $23.46
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