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test pilot

NOUN
aircraft tester
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The Integratron collection captures the curious life of Van Tassel, an aviation mechanic and test pilot who claimed to have communicated with Solganda, a being from Venus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

An engineer by training and a former test pilot, Adenot became in February the second Frenchwoman in history to fly into space, after pioneer Claudie Haignere.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

The agencies told him that Rush not only wasn’t an elite military test pilot, as he had claimed to the CIA, but he also held no pilot credentials at all.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

Air Force colonel with more than 27 years of experience as an instructor pilot, fighter pilot, and test pilot.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026

In 1957, the former Marine test pilot had campaigned fiercely— and unsuccessfully—to be the first of the Mercury Seven to navigate to the heavens.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly


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