A test pilot is an aircraft pilot with additional training to fly and evaluate experimental, newly produced and modified aircraft with specific maneuvers...
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Test Pilot is a 1938 American drama film directed by Victor Fleming, starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy, and featuring Lionel Barrymore...
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other distributor. A pilot is created to be a testing ground to gauge whether a series will be successful. It is, therefore, a test episode for the intended...
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Air Force Test Pilot School (USAF TPS) is the Air Force's advanced flight training school that trains experimental test pilots, flight test engineers...
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The test pilot cocktail is a vintage tiki drink invented by Donn Beach. Beach was known for changing his recipes over time, and multiple versions of the...
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Test Pilot may refer to: Test pilot, pilots who work on developing, evaluating and proving experimental aircraft Test Pilot (cocktail), a 1933 tiki drink...
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There are several test pilot schools around the world, formed after the example of the original Empire Test Pilots' School in the UK with mission to train...
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The United States Naval Test Pilot School (USNTPS), located at Naval Air Station (NAS) Patuxent River in Patuxent River, Maryland, provides instruction...
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The Society of Experimental Test Pilots is an international organization that seeks to promote air safety and contributes to aeronautical advancement...
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Shubhanshu Shukla (category Indian test pilots)
Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla (nicknamed Shux) is an Indian Air Force test pilot and ISRO astronaut. He has been selected as one of the four astronauts...
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Mikhail Vasilyevich Kozlov (section Test pilot work)
was a Soviet test pilot who received the title Hero of the Soviet Union and Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR for his work. As the co-pilot on the maiden...
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Commodore David Best (OBE FRAeS) (born 23 December 1960) is a British test pilot and businessman. He served in the Royal Air Force from 1979 to 2012. In...
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December 2017) was a Soviet pilot and colonel. He was named a Hero of the Soviet Union in 1953, honored as an Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR, and was a laureate...
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Glen Walter Edwards (March 5, 1916–June 5, 1948) was a test pilot for the United States Air Force. He is the namesake of Edwards Air Force Base. Edwards...
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The National Test Pilot School (NTPS) is the only civilian test-pilot school in the United States, located in Mojave, California. It is organized as a...
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Ange-Charles Tognini (born 30 September 1949 in Vincennes, France) is a French test pilot, engineer, brigadier general in the French Air Force, and a former CNES...
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Mojave Air and Space Port (redirect from Mojave Airport Civilian Flight Test Center)
killing one of the pilots; flight test program was operating from Mojave at the time. September 25, 1981 — National Test Pilot School opens August 23...
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The Empire Test Pilots' School (ETPS) is a British training school for test pilots and flight test engineers of fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft at...
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Neil Armstrong (category American test pilots)
became the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. Armstrong was born and raised near Wapakoneta...
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Edwards Air Force Base (redirect from Muroc Flight Test Base)
War II USAAF veteran and test pilot Capt. Glen Edwards. Edwards is the home of the Air Force Test Center, Air Force Test Pilot School, and NASA's Armstrong...
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Chuck Yeager (category U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School alumni)
Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot who in October 1947 became the first pilot in history confirmed to have exceeded the speed...
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U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School, which trains test pilots, flight-test engineers, and flight-test navigators. The center has tested all the aircraft...
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aeronautical engineer, USAF test pilot and chief of the U.S. Air Force's Flight Test Engineering Laboratory. He helped develop and test many Cold War era military...
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Area 51 (redirect from Air Force Flight Test Center (Detachment 3))
Project director Richard M. Bissell Jr. understood that the flight test and pilot training programs could not be conducted at Edwards Air Force Base or...
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January 1920 – 21 February 2016) was a British Royal Navy officer and test pilot who flew 487 types of aircraft, more than anyone else in history. Brown...
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Test Pilot Donald is a 1951 American animated short film featuring Donald Duck and Chip 'n' Dale. The cartoon was directed by Jack Hannah and produced...
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Buzz Aldrin (section Aerospace Research Pilot School)
leaving NASA in 1971, Aldrin became Commandant of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School. He retired from the Air Force in 1972 after 21 years of service...
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Prasanth Nair (category Indian test pilots)
Captain Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair is a qualified flight instructor and a test pilot in the Indian Air Force. Nair is one of the four designated astronauts...
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experienced test pilot, with 1,500 hours test pilot flying time, who had graduated from a military test pilot school, or had test pilot experience with...
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2002) was an American test pilot, flight school operator, and founder of the modern "commuter airline" concept. Henson was a test pilot for Fairchild Aircraft...
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