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A flight engineer on an Avro Lancaster checks settings on the control panel from the fold down seat he used for take off in the cockpit. A flight engineer (FE), also sometimes called an air engineer, is the member of an aircraft's flight crew who monitors and operates its complex aircraft systems. In the early era of aviation, the position was ...
Bobak Ferdowsi (born 1979) – JPL flight engineer; Antonio Ferri (1912–1975) – created the Ferri scoop used on the jet intakes of the XF-103, F-105, XF8U-3, and SSM-N-9 Regulus II cruise missile, and the diverterless supersonic inlet used on the F-35; Gerhard Fieseler (1896–1987) – German aircraft designer
The Flight Engineer is a trilogy of science fiction novels, which can be defined as space opera, by S. M. Stirling and James Doohan and published by Baen Books. [1] It consists of The Rising (published in 1996), The Privateer (1999) and The Independent Command (2000).
Historically, the second officer was the flight engineer. This is a trained pilot who does not fly the aircraft, but instead monitors aircraft systems. [16] Modern airliners only require two pilots, and do not have a flight engineer or a navigator. [2]
The flight engineer's position is commonly staffed as a second officer. Flight engineers can still be found in the present day (in greatly diminished numbers), used on airline or air freight operations still flying such older aircraft. The position is typically crewed by a dual-licensed Pilot-Flight Engineer in the present day. [3] [7] [8] [9]
The Flight Engineer Badge was a qualification badge of the United States Army Air Forces authorized late in the Second World War on 19 June 1945. It was awarded to those military officers and NCOs who had qualified as flight engineers on board a military aircraft. As aircraft grew increasingly complex, the need arose for an in-flight specialist ...
Bobak Ferdowsi (Persian: بابک فردوسی, pronounced [baːˈbæk feɾdoːˈsiː]; born November 7, 1979) [1] is a flight engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.He served on the Cassini–Huygens and Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity missions.
Boeing 727 cockpit Flight engineer's station on a Boeing 727-200F In 1959, Lord Douglas , chairman of British European Airways (BEA), suggested that Boeing and de Havilland Aircraft Company (later Hawker Siddeley ) work together on their trijet designs, the 727 and D.H.121 Trident , respectively. [ 6 ]