Hi there, Thought I posted this earlier but I seem to have failed!
I'm researching military air crashes at the moment, particularly American and starting from World War II. I'm interested in finding crashes that have, by way of subsequent investigation and research, changed aviation in some way - for example with changes to safety procedures or production/engineering and so on.
One example is the work done by Alphonse Chapinis who proposed changes to cockpit design (locations and designs of switches) after a series of B-17 runway crashes.
I'm looking for other examples of that sort of thing, and just wondered if anything might spring to mind on these boards? Any tips would be very gratefully received. It doesn't have to be all safety-related, but it does need to be a military crash.
One of the tricky things is that so many planes were unrecoverable! But any advice or ideas on this would be fantastic.
Thanks very much for your time
James
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