Daedalus Aero.Space

Recognized test pilot schools produce fewer than 100 graduates per year, and require a year of employer-funded training that can cost over $1M USD. Daedalus Aerospace courses teach the same foundational concepts from TPS-graduate instructors, available on-demand for a fraction of the cost. For most professionals and most teams, this is the practical path to TPS-level knowledge.

Daedalus Aerospace courses are taught by career flight test professionals, including graduates and former on-staff instructors from the US Air Force Test Pilot School.

Daedalus Aerospace courses provide best practices, lessons learned, and professional strategies for flight test. Our course content is closely aligned with and based on the flight test methods used by the US Air Force, US Navy, NASA, FAA Aircraft Certification, and many other professional flight test operations. These proven best practices improve safety, effectiveness, and efficiency.

Although it's not possible to prove the "accident that never occurred", analysis of recent aerospace programs shows that product teams and businesses using professional flight test methods are over twice as likely to result in a successful product, and deliver their product to users in one third the time, compared to competing product teams.

Absolutely. Flight test adds value long before the prototype vehicle is built, since it incorporates system engineering and risk management principles that prevent redesign, rework, and regret. Reinventing wheels takes a lot of time. Teams that include the flight test perspective are more efficient, with a better track record for success.

Absolutely yes. The flight test principles taught in Daedalus Aerospace courses are proven to significantly improve the effectiveness and efficiency of development of new aerospace technologies; including autonomy, electric propulsion, and space systems. These benefits include planning for testability, risk management processes to identify hazards and controls, and structuring validation or operational tests for deployed systems.

Our courses are used by engineering teams at Collins Aerospace, Gulfstream, De Havilland, the US Air Force, and other leading aerospace developers. Completion of Daedalus Aerospace courses demonstrates applied knowledge of the same methods used at the world's top flight test centers, a meaningful signal to aerospace employers.

New to flight test? Start with Flight Test 101, then Flight Test Foundations. Managing a team? Consider the Flight Test Fundamentals Bundle, which combines three core courses into a complete onboarding package. Working on a specific challenge? Browse the full course library to match your program's needs.

Yes, Daedalus Aerospace supports group training for distributed teams of any size.