Week 16 & 17 - April 25 to May 8

First of all, let me apologize for missing a week, but I have been quite busy becoming a dad .....
So, what happened over these two weeks ? I'm not so sure, having missed a ouple days, but I will try to give you a good overlook.
We had a structure class, followed by "ASE" : aero-servo-elastic coupling. In a nutshell, we studied all the coupling that can happen both on the ground and in the air : flutter, limit cycle ocsillations, rigid body limit cycle, ....
Then we had to choose our TMP (Test Management Project). They will keep us very busy for the rest of the year at TPS. We will have to manage a full test project, for real customers, while still doing academics, curriculum flights, tests, checkrides, .... We will have to write test plan, safety plan, concept letters, coordinate TPWG (test plan working group) , and so on ! We then had several days of academics to teach us everything we needed to get started on these TMPs.
On the flying side, more VSS flights in the learjet, practice checkride in the C12, checkrides in the HU16, fighter checkrides in the T38 or the F16, and so on.
Next week should be about the same for the flights, with maybe the first of the C12 longitudinal stability demo flights. On the academic side, we will have a serious challenge with "spin and departure".