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Up Close And Personal With Textron’s Scorpion
Light Attack Jet During Weapons Separation Testing
Sep 06 2017
By Todd Miller
Textron’s Scorpion Aces Weapons Separation Testing.
Going five for five in the complex, methodical and
engineering-driven military aircraft test regimes is rare. Weather, range
logistics, recording equipment, aircraft readiness or one of any other number
of details typically conspire to scrub a test flight.
This past July the Textron Aviation Defense Team of two
Scorpion jets (production airframes P2 and P3), three Test Pilots, two Flight
Test Engineers and 12 support staff (ground, weapons, maintenance, program)
descended on NAS Patuxent River, Maryland for weapons separation testing. Five
scheduled flight tests in five different configurations over five flight days
with 100% completion on time and target enabled the team to achieve “Ace”
status, of sorts.
The test plan was aggressive and put the credibility of
the three Textron test pilots at risk – all graduates of the US Navy Test Pilot
School at Pax River…..Read rest of article: HERE
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