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Friday, August 26, 2011

WORLD-WIDE FLIGHT TEST & FLIGHT RESEARCH (beta testing)

Okay, here is the first shot at this.  The table provided below is probably less than 20% of currently ongoing flight testing, and the current test phases listed have probably morphed since I first gathered the information.  If you or your organization would like to link me to better data, it will let folks know what you're up to and get you the credit you deserve.  If you're with EADS, Embraer, Pilatus, IAI, Saab, Beechcraft, NASA etc, I know some of you have got work in progress, so add a comment to point me at the appropriate press-releases and I will update this list.  If I've given the wrong location, wrong point of contact, or if I just mis-spelled your name, please let me know.

ORG/LOC
AIRCRAFT
TEST OBJECTIVES
CONTACT-AFFILIATION
REMARKS
SUKH/ZHU
T-50
Systems, Propulsion
Sergei Bogdan-TP
For Indian AF?
TsKB/TsAGI
Rysachok
Initial certification
Yevgeny Gordeyev-M
5th plane added
BOE-M/WICH
B-52
Systems Testing
Scot Oathout-M
CONECT Datalink
CMC/XIAN
ARJ21
Icing, stalls
Wu Guanghui-M
Flutter complete?
LM/PXRVR
F-35C
Carrier Suitability
Fred Schenk

LM/EDWS
F-35A
Systems, Maturity
Laurie Quincy-M

AW/
AW-159
Performance
Mark Burnand-TP

SCA/MOJ
367 Bipod
Initial Airworthiness
Doug Shane-M
Twin Fuselage, roadable
NG/EDWS
RQ-4B
Systems
George Guerra-M

CSNA*/COLO
C-172
Electric Propulsion
Eric Snelgrove
*with Beyond Aviation

















ABBREVIATIONS:
AW – Augusta-Westland
EDWS – Edwards AFB
BOE-M – Boeing Military
C - customer
CMC – Comac (China)
COLO – Colorado
CSNA – Cessna
LM – Lockheed-Martin
LOC – location
M – manufacturer
MOJ – Mojave
NG – Northrop-Grumman
ORG – organization
TP – test pilot
SCA – Scaled Composites
SUKH – Sukhoi Aircraft
TsAGI – Russian Flight Research Institute, Samara
TsKb – Progress Aircraft
XIAN – Xian, China
ZHU – Zhukovsky


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