A test pilot is an aircraft pilot with additional training to fly and evaluate experimental, newly produced and modified aircraft with specific maneuvers, known as flight test techniques.
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Chuck Yeager next to experimental aircraft Bell X-1 #1 Glamorous Glennis
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James H. Doolittle, the NACA's last chairman, visited Langley in February 1928 in his Curtiss R3C-2 ...
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Dryden pilot Neil Armstrong is seen here next to the X-15 ship #1 (56-6670) after a research flight....