Post-maintenance flight tests are essential for verifying aircraft safety and functionality after maintenance, especially significant work or avionics upgrades, often mandated by FAA regulations like ...

The equipment and facilities supporting today’s critical infrastructure are vital to modern society. This article provides testing and maintenance tips to ensure systems are kept in top condition.

Any time you change a flight control’s mass, it negatively affects the speed at which the flight control can flutter. The mass of a flight control can change due to drain holes getting plugged as well ...

Vacuum Interrupters, Inc., an affiliate of Group CBS, has developed the CTVT-45, a two-in-one tester for the quick, accurate testing of current transformers (CTs) and voltage transformers (VTs) in the ...

From our very first flight lessons we were taught to check for “full and free correct movement” of flight controls. Every preflight, whether it is for a normal flight or a post-maintenance test flight ...