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Tim Berg - Test Piloting and Detached Observation (Immersion Series #5)

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Is the Key to the Engineering There to Slow Down Enough to Open the Parachute?

The people that have not survived the opening the parachute were, they got themselves in situations where they were flying too fast or too low. As an instructor, I actually learned all those things I was supposed to learn when I was a student because now I have to teach them. Spin testing, I would never like spins. In fact, when we do spins, I'd usually get air sick because you're spinning around,. It's just very disorienting and didn't feel good. What is the most dangerous time in all of these planes? You develop planes for a major company and you're their design and test pilot for all kinds of stuff.

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