On 15 June at the Royal Aeronautical Society’s ‘Future of Rotorcraft’ conference was a technical presentation on Eurocopter’s exciting new high-speed compound helicopter demonstrator - the X3 (pronounced ‘X-cubed’ rather than ‘X-three’).

Given by Jean-Michel Billig, executive vp, Research & Development, Eurocopter, it is a fascinating briefing, in two parts on video.

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On 1 February the Flight Test Group Evening Lecture was given by Captain Frank Santoni - Chief Test Pilot, Commercial Airplanes, Boeing on the 787 and 747-8. A former naval aviator, Captain Santoni now heads the civil aircraft test pilot group at Boeing and, as was described in his introduction during the lecture, “is rated to fly anything with a 7 on the end of it.”

We took the opportunity to ask Captain Santoni about the 787 test schedule, his day-to-day job and the challenges of glass cockpit airliners.

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Exclusive interview with Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown – WW2 aviator, one of the world’s greatest test pilots and holder of the record for number of different aircraft types flown.

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