"We're really trying to support the people who design and test aircraft, " Hammond said.
The FAA has also approved limited test flights for two aircraft to test the changes in the batteries.
In previous incidents, one of the 787 test flight aircraft lost primary electrical power in 2010 and was forced to make an emergency landing in Texas.
But how do you possibly run that test on an aircraft that now lies in a million pieces?
He also signaled his determination to increase the rate at which this V-22 is purchased by the Pentagon -- the next major test for this aircraft and its supporters.
Most new aircraft experience issues of this sort, an inevitable consequence of a test program becoming a production aircraft and the sheer complexity of modern airliner design.
Still, the Army purchased a few aircraft from Boeing as test planes, and some insiders remained convinced that the aircraft was flyable.
The FAA's approval of the plan allows for limited test flights for two aircraft equipped with prototype versions of the battery fix.
Next month his airline plans to test-fly an aircraft that is partly powered by biofuels, something most experts thought was years away.
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Driven by a six-blade mahogany fan (see top picture) with a diameter of 9.1m, the tunnel was used to test full-sized aircraft prototypes like the Spitfire.
Meantime, Oregon State and other universities are putting unmanned aircraft to the test.
The Queen favours Concorde when she flies and the Queen Mother is even reported to have taken the controls of one of the aircraft during a test flight.
Similarly, the origins of the microwave oven (an offshoot of radar), the folding baby buggy (the brainchild of a test-pilot inspired by aircraft landing gear) and traffic lights (one of the first of which exploded outside the Houses of Parliament) are not widely known.
We spend hundreds of hours on board a variety of airplanes each year, most often en-route to a trade show or product launch event, but occasionally we have a rare opportunity to hop on board military aircraft, to test out unrelated products, or, even more unusually, to take a seat behind the yoke.
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North Korea has issued no specific warnings to ships and aircraft that a missile test is imminent.
Dr Sweeney's team, working in collaboration with Astrium, a satellite-and-space company that is part of EADS, a European aerospace group, will test the system in a large aircraft hangar in Germany.
In other defence news, an editorial in bilingual Global Times hails China's successful test flight of its first heavy transport aircraft Y-20 as an "important step forward" in military modernisation.
It's not the miniature robotic space shuttle that NASA's planning to send into orbit this month, but another of the space agency's unmanned vehicles has edged closer to its beginning its mission, with the "nearly autonomous" Global Hawk aircraft having completed a key test flight bright and early on April 2nd.
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Dozens of test flights by airlines reported no damage to aircraft or engines.
Boeing spokesman Marc Birtel said in a statement that the company is "confident" the tests could be conducted safely, and said one Boeing aircraft has been designated for the test.
Built for American Airlines, NASA acquired the aircraft in 1974 and used it for test flights from Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert and ferry flights to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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So it is all the more surprising to learn that not only is she a test pilot for one of the world's biggest aircraft manufacturers, she is the only woman in France holding such a position.
While there's no video of this particular test flight, there is a video of the instruments being loaded onto the aircraft, shot with the very camera that's now installed vehicle's tail (and augmented with the requisite Benny Hill theme song).
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Scaled Composites, founded by renowned aircraft designer Burt Rutan, historically has kept the timing of important test flights under wraps partly to prevent crowds from gathering at the Mojave airport, and partly to avoid putting undue pressure on project managers to launch or take off.
Special attention was given to charges found in recent, sharply critical reports by "60 Minutes" and the General Accounting Office. (1) Each contention concerning such issues as the uncertainties involved in "low observable" technologies, the B-2 test program, the pace of production, the susceptibility to countermeasures and the maintainability of stealthy aircraft was addressed in turn by the participants.
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Last year, in its most recent test, the X-51 fell for about four seconds before its booster rocket ignited, but the aircraft failed to separate from the rocket and plunged into the ocean.
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