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Léon Lemartin, the world's first professional test pilot, [1] under contract to Louis Blériot in c. 1910 Jimmy Doolittle in 1928 with his Curtiss R3C-2, around the time he pioneered blind flying Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1, first test pilot to break the sound barrier at Mach 1 in 1947 Neil Armstrong and the North American X-15 after a research test flight in 1960
First American to fly a jet aircraft as a test pilot for Bell Aircraft [296] [297] James Stockdale: HF USN test pilot awarded the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War [298] Russell Thaw: HF First flight of the XF3D-1 [299] Frederick M. Trapnell: HF First US Navy pilot to fly a jet aircraft, co-founder of USN Test Pilot School [300] Roscoe Turner: HF
He became a test pilot with Vickers Armstrong in 1952, and was involved in testing and developing planes such as the Vickers Varsity, Vickers Viscount and the Vickers Valiant. Glaser was also involved in testing the BAC One-Eleven. [11] [12] In 1979 he became flight operations manager and test pilot instructor of Rombac in Romania. [13]
At Messerschmitt he test piloted such famous aircraft as the Bf 109, the Me 262 jet fighter, and the Me 163 rocket plane. [2]: 3 Here is a partial list of aircraft he flew: [1]: v Bf 109; Messerschmitt Me 209; Messerschmitt Me 309; Me 210 - Me 410; Messerschmitt Me 261; Me 264 Amerikabomber contract contender
Jean 'Skip' Ziegler in front of the Bell X-5 test article at Edwards Air Force Base. Ziegler after the first glide flight of the X-2. Jean "Skip" Ziegler (January 1, 1920 – May 12, 1953) was a United States test pilot. He was killed in an explosion of the Bell X-2 during a test flight in 1953.
Mikhail Vasilyevich Kozlov (Russian: Михаил Васильевич Козлов; 5 November 1928 – 3 June 1973) was a Soviet test pilot who received the title Hero of the Soviet Union and Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR for his work.
Wing Commander James Leonard Dell OBE (23 August 1924 – 25 March 2008) was a British test pilot. He is best remembered for his involvement in the BAC TSR-2 test programme, being one of only three test pilots to fly the aircraft before the project was scrapped in 1965. [1]
Darrell Cornell. Darrell Eugene Cornell (August 19, 1932 - October 10, 1984) [1] [2] was Northrop's chief test pilot in the early 1980s. [2] [3] [4] He was killed on October 10, 1984, at Suwon Air Base, while performing a demonstration flight for the South Korean Air Force (ROKAF). [5]