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Video exponentially improves our ability to use picture to communicate 10,000 words, and this is not only one of the fundamental ATOMs but also an elementary and critical element in the strategy to inform and invest. These are just a few of the reasons videos consistently make it to these posts.
Flight Test on YouTube is a bit like Alice in Wonderland — once you go down the rabbit hole, you may not come back out. Here are some fantastic resources and some YouTube channels from FTOs.
NASA’s historic register
GE Aviation
Here’s a sampling of others (with an admitted but unintentional European theme).
Snecma Safran Group
Lockheed Martin shares Edwards AFB
| Flight Test organizations generally fall into four broad categories, and I tried to pick a video from each: |
For the fastest way to connect, check out these lists also: Flight Test on Facebook and Twitter.
Madeline L’Engle describes her reading habits in Walking on Water:
As a child, when I came across a word I didn’t know, I didn’t stop reading the story to look it up, I just went on reading. And after I had come across the word in several books, I knew what it meant; it had been added to my vocabulary. This still happens.
She compares this method to reading with a dictionary beside her. In the latter, she professes that she became bogged down.
Perhaps this is the best way for learning how to use analytical tools and how to apply mathematics to leadership.
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Where Do We Go From Here
How do we find our way then, when we are exploring the unknown, blazing a trail into uncharted territory? How do we apply elementary statistical principles to transform uncertainty into decisive action? What is to prevent us from making a preposterous application of ATOMs when we deal with very complex situations, those in which our intuition fails?
These questions are not much different from those faced by Chuck Yeager before he ever broke the sound barrier or Neil Armstrong as he took that first step on the moon. Neither of these men, nor anyone around them–with hundreds or thousands of highly educated, very scientific people on these teams–knew what to expect. Or did they…?
ATOMs is a monthly column that introduces analytical tools of mathematics and statistics and illustrates their application. To read more about ATOMs, you can read Where Do We Go From Here, or view the online workbook here.
