Originally Posted by
rayrevolver
We are slowly introducing TEM on the military side of the house (and the contractors are behind) . Last month our senior safety guy flew out to brief us and I asked him when we would transition from CRM to TEM. He said, what's TEM?
Anywho, gonna share a quick story: In 1999 we did a Baron spin program. My only part, I held the camera in the chase Bonanza, on my knees in the aft facing seats. It was insane, I filmed as long as I could, but as the g's built, I was basically pointing the camera down inside the plane. We spiraled down while the Baron spun its face off. Both directions.
I don't recall if we had a spin chute on the Baron but the pilot for sure wore a chute.. And I didn't even have a seat belt on!
I would love to see that video today. First test point my dumbass didn't get the camera recording... So a quick knock it off, recover, and try again. If I recall, we were looking at the wing tip fuel tanks but I don't remember the details if we added baffles or this was a normal Baron to get baseline data.
This was back when Raytheon owned Beech. We called ourselves Raytheon Aircraft Test S.. (don't recall what the S stood for) RATS. I have the patch at work.
The more crazy thing is now this group and Cessna are owned by the same parent company. They are sharing all their secrets from years past. Imagine Chevy and Ford merging!