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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
The Cooper-Harper Handling Qualities Rating Scale [1] (HQRS), sometimes Cooper-Harper Rating Scale (CHRS), is a pilot rating scale, a set of criteria used by test pilots and flight test engineers to evaluate the handling qualities of aircraft while performing a task during a flight test. The scale ranges from 1 to 10, with 1 indicating the best ...
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
USAF Test Pilot School, Edwards AFB, California. The commanding officer of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School (USAF TPS) is known as its Commandant.The commandant leads the school which combines Air Force Materiel Command's (AFMC) most complex flying unit encompassing nearly 4,000 flight hours in over 30 aircraft types annually, and Air University's (AU) most demanding Master of Science ...
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 ] James Dell (known as Jimmy Dell) was born in Liverpool in 1924 and joined the Royal Air Force in 1942.
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.
Jerauld Richard "Jerry" Gentry (May 16, 1935 – March 3, 2003) was a United States Air Force (USAF) test pilot and Vietnam combat veteran. As chief USAF pilot of the Lifting Body Research Program, he helped validate the concept of flying a wingless vehicle back to Earth from space and landing it like an aircraft—an approach used by the Space Shuttle and to a greater degree by vehicles such ...
By 1975 De Havilland had become Hawker Siddeley Aviation and Fillingham was Deputy Chief Test Pilot when he decided to retire. [1] His last few flying years for Hawker Siddeley he flew the Hawker Siddeley HS.125 as well as display flying the then last flying Mosquito. [1] Fillingham had 11,450 hours on 120 different aircraft types during his ...