Test pilot

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Flight Lieutenant Mathew 'Stanny' Stannard of RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire will join the joint MoD-Virgin operation which will see Richard Branson's planes propel military satellites into space.

In 1963 Captain Engle was assigned as one of two Air Force test pilots to fly the X-15 Research Rocket aircraft. In 1965 he flew the X-15 to an altitude of 280,600 feet, and became the youngest pilot ever to qualify as an astronaut. Three of his sixteen flights in the X-15 exceeded the 50-mile (264,000 feet) altitude required for astronaut rating. NASA Media Usage Guidelines Credit: NASA Image Number: E-14198 Date: December 2, 1965

This is not me. This is a British Typhoon test pilot showing the original embroidered version of TheAviationist site. #theaviationist…

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NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER AIRCRAFT DIVISION, PATUXENT RIVER, Md.– The United States Naval Test Pilot School (USNTPS) is the Navy’s principal operator of the Northrop Grumman T-38C Talon supersonic jet trainer, with 10 of the twin-engined aircraft in its inventory. The school’s T-38s fly an average of 1,100 hours per year, providing students with valuable […]

Kelly J. Latimer was a research pilot in the Flight Crew Branch of NASA's Dryden (now Armstrong) Flight Research Center.

F-22 chronology covers the program from early studies to the first flight of the first production Raptor in 1997.

A tribute to Tom Smith, SR-71 Test Force Commander at Edwards AFB CA