• Question: Would you create better cargo and passenger planes as well as military ones?

    Asked by bethhayes to Ed on 11 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Edward Taylor

      Edward Taylor answered on 11 Mar 2013:


      I work on the controls of the aircraft rather than the aircraft itself, the buttons, panels and joysticks that the pilot uses. Believe it or not a lot of electronic equipment that is used in military aircraft like the Chinook Helicopter in my profile is actually used in cargo and passenger aircraft. Therefore although right now I am helping to test it in a military helicopter, I am also developing the technology for civilian aircraft.

      This has always been the way, some of the greatest advances in civilian aircraft (like the jet engine) were invented for the military first and then put into civilian planes after.

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