In those earliest days of powered flight, when so much had yet to be proven about aircraft technology and handling, almost any pilot was a test pilot of sorts.
This first flight was for me a very intense moment, ” test pilot Markus Scherdel said after emerging from the solar airplane’s podlike cockpit.
the risks incident to the life of a test pilot
After the war, he worked as a test pilot. He flew planes designed by his younger brother Burt.
After graduation, he flew A-6 Intruders in the U.S. Marine Corps, became a test pilot and colonel, and, on his second try, was accepted in 1985 into the elite astronaut program.
In the cockpit ahead of a 1966 flight is NASA test pilot Milt Thompson.
Keith Colmer, a former Air Force test pilot, was chosen from more than 500 applicants, among them a handful of astronauts.
As a veteran of advanced aircraft development programs, he served as a US air Force test pilot on the F-117 stealth fighter and as a General Dynamics test pilot for the YF-22.
A test pilot needs plenty of nerve.
"Those displays represent a significant step toward the F-35 cockpit"s spare ambience and a departure from its steam-gauge predecessors, " notes Jon Beesley, the chief test pilot for the F-35.
a daredevil test pilot having the right stuff.
It glided for 87 minutes above western Switzerland at an altitude of 1, 200 meters (3, 937 feet) with German test pilot Markus Scherdel at the controls.
Things went horribly wrong for test pilot Ken Collins (flying under his Area 51 code name Ken Colmar) when testing the plane's subsonic engines at low altitude.
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