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Is it the same as the flight engineer on a plane?

2006-11-26 02:15:37 · 6 answers · asked by Dan 5 in Cars & Transportation Aircraft

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If it comes to military, the flight engineer is a non-commissioned member of the forces (enlisted) and the Aeronautical Engineer is an officer. As far as I'm concerned, the enlisted members of the military are the heart and soul of the whole operation. If it wasn't for us, the officers wouldn't have these wonderful planes to fly. The flight engineer has a few years of either Aircraft Mechanic (Airframe Mechanic) or Avionics Technician under their belt and their job involves being on the flight keeping tabs on the aircrafts situation, ie mechanical, electrical. The Aeronautical Engineer is either socializing around the coffee room or water cooler, maybe even playing golf and occasionally sitting at the drafting table doodling or at the computer with some type of CAD program. To get this slack kind of work, you must have at least 4 years of engineering in university followed by graduating with at least a bachelors degree.

2006-11-26 04:38:45 · answer #1 · answered by 2010DynaSuperGlide 3 · 0 0

No, a flight engineer operates and monitors aircraft systems in flight, while an aeronautical engineer designs aircraft or aircraft systems and components. Aeronautical engineers also design repairs for aircraft with some damage which exceeds published limits.

2006-12-03 08:33:05 · answer #2 · answered by plezurgui 6 · 0 0

Aerospace engineering is the branch of engineering that concerns aircraft, spacecraft, and related topics. Originally called aeronautical engineering and dealing solely with aircraft, the broader term "aerospace engineering" has replaced the former in most usage, as flight technology advanced to include craft operating outside the Earth's atmosphere.[1] In analogy with "aeronautical engineering", the branch is sometimes referred to as astronautical engineering, although this term usually only concerns craft which operate in outer space.

2006-11-26 02:17:35 · answer #3 · answered by mommyblues78 4 · 0 0

ratio_sertraline is obiviously a little biased, but forgets that without someone to fly the aircraft the repair techs would have no reason to exist. As someone who's been on both sides of the E and O coin in the Navy aviaiton world, I have a deep respect for both the abilities of the ground crew (especially troubleshooters), and the ability of the pilot/nfo.
As far as Aviation engineers go, they do a variety of things, structural, electrical, and mechanical. They also perform battle damage assesment in order to determine how well or how poorly a component withstood combat conditions and what can be done to improve it.

2006-11-26 10:53:27 · answer #4 · answered by jmsm1222 1 · 0 0

constructive, after quite a few years of faculty (no longer night college, because of the fact that maximum plane maintenance is performed at night) and internships, and so on. required for a level in AE. AME adventure could be a factor in preliminary employment, in that functional field adventure will provide an engineer a 'experience' for what works in the real international, as antagonistic to what's displayed on the 'drafting board'. I constructive desire the engineers who got here up with lots of the plane configurations I got here upon in the sphere were compelled to do maintenance on them as a penance for his or her short-sightedness

2016-12-13 14:30:12 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

............ no ......... they have to keep track of all the systems on the plane ............... the serviceability of systems and ............ certify that things are OK ..... or what is not working ...........

2006-11-26 03:35:03 · answer #6 · answered by spaceman 5 · 0 0

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