Effective Date: 18 June 98
The information contained in the SFTE Technical Notebook is for educational use only, and may not be accurate or applicable for all situations. The Society of Flight Test Engineers assumes no responsibility for the use of the information provided.
Flight testing aircraft is very hazardous with the potential for loss of aircraft and life. Testing should only be performed by qualified test pilots with support from qualified flight test engineers.
BACKGROUND
The SFTE Technical Council has gone digital with regards to the Technology Notebook. At the TC meeting in Orlando on 17 August 1997, a demonstration was presented as to several options for developing the TN capitalizing on PC technology. The TC selected the InterNet approach to presenting the document, hence, WebTN.
The TN has been "under development" since 1988 in a paper format but with limited success. The WebTN approach has many advantages over the previous efforts. The ease of development and distribution are primary. The use of Email for receiving articles/files from the membership will be useful although not essential. The WebTN will initially present off-the-shelf, public domain type information directed to providing the newer flight test engineer with exposure on the test requirement, analysis methods and procedures on the many disciplines of flight testing. Select symposium papers that reflect the WebTN premise will be included.
Plan
The TC selected Clay Houston, a SFTE Fellow, as the initial WebTN Editor. The Editor will receive information from the world, edit and format such into a compatible form and provide the results to peer reviewer(s) selected by the TC Chairman. Upon TC acceptance, the HTML file will be provided to the "sfte.org" WebPage Editor for member access under the "Technical Council" sub-site.
Papers and articles will be accepted form both members and non-members. In submitting the information, both Email FTP files and paper forms will be accepted. There is color and black-white scanners with OCR capability available which can, in general convert all information into the WebTN format. All information are subject to editing and SFTE TC peer approval.
The initial WebTN will have information from the demonstration and existing symposiums papers and may not reflect information from the members, but, future updates must, must have input from the world to put the WebTN at a level of information that the newer flight test engineer will find useful. The various chapter officers will be reminded often to suggest to the members and non-members to submit a package for posterity.
Editor Note: This document will be under continual development and as such some of the text, formats and graphics will be upgraded in the future.
For submittal,
Alan Lawless
SFTE Technical Council, Chairman
SFTE.org
or
Alan Lawless
arlawless@cessna.textron.com
SFTE WebTN Editor
The current WebTN Editor is retiring as of 2003, now 2004 and into 2005, and as such the SFTE Technical Council is in need of another volunteer editor.
The requirement is to have a general background in Engineering Flight Test technology which will be used to incorporate text and figures received from the SFTE membership into the WebTN using simple HTML language. The current files will be provided and the current editor will provide verbal support.
Interested parties should contact:
Alan Lawless
SFTE Technical Council, Chairman
SFTE.org
or
Alan Lawless
arlawless@cessna.textron.com
(316) 517-0013