RFT 428: Flight Test Engineer Eileen Bjorkman
Eileen A. Bjorkman is a retired United States Air Force officer, former military flight test engineer, civilian pilot, and author. As a flight test engineer in the Air Force, she flew more than seven hundred hours in the rear seat of twenty-five different types of military aircraft, primarily the F-4, F-16, C-130, and C-141. She has both M.S. and B.S. degrees in Aeronautical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology. She retired from the Air Force in 2010 as a colonel after nearly thirty years of active duty. She is currently the Executive Director at the Air Force Test Center, Edwards AFB, CA.
Bjorkman is a civilian pilot with 2,000 hours of pilot time. She holds the two highest certificates available to U.S. pilots, Airline Transport Pilot and Certificated Flight Instructor. She owns an aerobatic airplane, a Super Decathlon.
Eileen's book is Unforgotten in the Gulf of Tonkin.
