Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board have recovered a cockpit voice recorder from the primary crash site where a Learjet collided with a busy roadway in South Florida last week, killing all nine people on board.
I have a friend that used to work in aviation doing retro fitting, they would say “all it takes to become a test pilot is to take the airplane past its defined limits” meaning that anywhere beyond those limits they don’t know how the aircraft will behave.
Going beyond the intended flight ceiling is a big no no because it changes a lot of other parameters like stall speeds and angles.
I have a friend that used to work in aviation doing retro fitting, they would say “all it takes to become a test pilot is to take the airplane past its defined limits” meaning that anywhere beyond those limits they don’t know how the aircraft will behave.
Going beyond the intended flight ceiling is a big no no because it changes a lot of other parameters like stall speeds and angles.