Career Profile: Flight Operations Engineer Brian Griffin

Operations engineers at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center help advance science, technology, aeronautics, and space exploration by managing operational aspects of a flight research project. They are the governing authority on airworthiness related to the modification, operation, or maintenance of specialized research or support aircraft so those aircraft can be flown safely without jeopardizing the pilots, persons on the ground, or the flight test project.

With extensive aircraft modifications often required to support new research and technology development efforts, operations engineers are key leaders from technical concept to flight to ensure flight safety and mission success. Other responsibilities of an operations engineer include configuration management, performing systems design and integration, system safety analysis, coordinating flight readiness activities, and providing real-time flight support.

This 7-minute, 42-second video highlights the responsibilities and daily activities of NASA Armstrong operations engineer Brian Griffin during the preparation and execution of flight tests in support of aeronautics research.

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God, I'm getting old. The 15s were what we all wanted to get into when I was a young pilot. The Phantom was the dinosaur then. Now the 15s, 16s, and 18s are the ancient ones. Too funny.