test flight
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To win certification, Boeing completed 441 flight tests over 686 test flight hours.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
SpaceX has completed a test flight of its Starship megarocket, followed by a successful soft splashdown in the Indian Ocean an hour after launch.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
SpaceX had scheduled the test flight to happen last week, but it was scrubbed shortly before liftoff after problems with the booster engines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
The company is set to conduct another test flight of the vehicle from its complex outside of Brownsville, Texas, on Thursday evening.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
If that test flight worked, we’d borrow money somehow and do it a second time, but for an audience of paying spectators.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
