Flight Testing the Islander: A description of the early flight test development of the aircraft

Abstract

THE design team knew that the Islander was a winner from the very first moment it leapt into the air on June 13, 1965. The reliability was phenomenal; from that first flight on June 13 to the evening of Wednesday, June 16, the aircraft completed twelve flights totalling 7 hours 25 minutes over a wide range of e.g. positions and flight regimes in order to acquire the Special Category Certificate of Airworthiness that was required for attendance at the Paris Air Show.

Citation

Coombe, A.J. (1970), "Flight Testing the Islander: A description of the early flight test development of the aircraft", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 42 No. 8, pp. 15-27. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb034670