test pilot

Armstrong had served as a Naval aviator in Korea, returned to Purdue to complete his degree, and then joined NASA’s predecessor agency as a test pilot.

Back in the heyday of the Cold War and the 1960s Space Race, NASA recruited its astronauts almost exclusively from the ranks of military test pilots.

It’s true for test pilots, it’s true for tourists, it’s even true for fabulously rich men who build their own spacecraft and pay their own freight.

FAA regulators can only learn what is safe and what is not as the test pilots learn it themselves.

This is an expansion of the company’s existing license, which had granted it permission to fly professional test pilots and astronauts to space using its spaceplane.

But she surprised the test pilots—there were three, the chief test pilot Jack Waddell, Wygle and Jess Wallick.

Illinois is at the forefront of smart-grid test-pilot programs.

Inside the small world of military aviation, his exploits as a test pilot are still spoken of with awe.

His skill as a research and test pilot certainly impressed Buzz Aldrin.

I had known Bill since before he had become their chief test pilot.

Last Fridays job was to have been Jimmys last as a test pilot.

If something goes wrong because the test pilot is disturbed or nervous, the company will be bankrupt.

I had heard that another free-lance test pilot like myself had recently jumped out of a ship he had been diving.

Our chief test pilot now, you know, has done seven of these dive demonstrations.