Last month, engines were installed, ground vibration tests and flight test instrumentation verification were completed.
The 747-8 Intercontinental's first flight marks the beginning of a flight test program that will finish in the fourth quarter.
During a second flight test in January, the Raytheon kill vehicle missed the target by 100 feet because two "end-game" sensors both experienced mechanical failures.
The Air Force Flight Test Center Museum features a full size replica of Yeager's plane (the real one hangs in the Smithsonian) and actual aircraft that made the region famous.
Development of the G650 survived a crisis in 2011, when one of the jets crashed during a takeoff performance test in New Mexico, killing two Gulfstream pilots and two flight test engineers.
Applicants for experimental permits will need to provide a description of their program, a flight test plan, documentation showing the operational safety of the spacecraft and a plan for response in case of a mishap.
The United States might still not have intercontinental ballistic missiles and reliable space launchers today if it had responded to the succession of early flight test failures in those programs by terminating, instead of redoubling, the effort.
Highlights include the Air Force Flight Test Center Museum, the food court and gift shop at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center and a "windshield tour" near the flight line where F-16s, KC-135s, F-22s, F-35s, B-1s or C-17s might be visible, said the spokesman.
Climbing to 17, 000 feet was bumpy, and I turned the controls over to Terry Tomeny, a former F-16 jock and now chief of flight-test engineering for Eclipse.
Thursday's flawed flight was the first time an Ariane rocket had malfunctioned since Ariane-5's maiden test flight exploded 37 seconds after launch in 1996.
For Mr. Branson, the test flight met its most important goal: validating the rocket ship's design.
The FAA also will permit Boeing to begin test flight activities relating to the battery issue.
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Masten announced last week it would make a test flight from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
We'll start with the good: Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo had its first successful test flight on Monday.
In September, an unmanned test flight blew up at 45, 000 feet over tiny Van Horn, Texas.
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There is talk of a test flight to the ISS, using its Cygnus spacecraft, sometime next year.
Macworld has taken the new MBPs for a test flight and, guess what, Apple's been pulling our legs.
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Boeing has said that a test flight to check the 787 Dreamliner's new battery system "went according to plan".
The first test flight in Japan was Sunday, All Nippon Airways officials said.
The astronaut vehicle itself, known as Orion, is nearing its first test flight.
Virgin Atlantic President Richard Branson said the test flight would help the airline to use clean fuel sooner than expected.
SpaceShipTwo, its inventively named commercial vehicle designed to take (well-moneyed) civilians into outerspace, has just completed its first rocket-powered test flight.
The Air Force is also testing jet engines using biofuels and had the first successful biofuel-powered test flight just last week.
If a glitch arises during the mission and the hookup is called off, another test flight would have to be scheduled.
In 2010, fire caused a 787 test flight to lose primary electrical power while flying from Yuma, Arizona, to Laredo, Texas.
There has been one hiccup: In August, an unmanned spacecraft veered out of control during a test flight and had to be destroyed.
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The firm said it would analyse the data and prepare for another test flight aimed at demonstrating the system to regulators in "coming days".
Filton Airport had been in operation for more than 100 years and saw the first UK test flight of the Concorde prototype in 1969.
Like Amazon, the company is secretive, but last September it revealed that it had lost an unmanned prototype vehicle during a short-hop test flight.
It is to serve as the test flight vehicle for a new series of commercial passenger spaceliners that will be operated by Virgin Atlantic Airways.
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