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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
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 ...
Philip Lucas GM (1902–1981) was an English aviator and test pilot who was awarded the George Medal for his courage and skill landing a damaged Hawker Typhoon prototype. [1] Philip Gadesden Lucas was born on 3 September 1902 at Bexleyheath, Kent and was educated at Epsom College before starting an apprenticeship with Vickers. [1]
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.
Hazelden left the RAF in 1947 and he was appointed as the chief test pilot of Handley Page. [1] Notably, he carried out the flight test development of the Hastings military transport, the Victor four-jet nuclear weapon carrying V bomber (and later tanker aircraft), and the Hermes and Dart Herald airliners.
Albert G Boyd (November 22, 1906 [1] – September 18, 1976) was a pioneering test pilot for the United States Air Force (USAF). During his 30-year career, he logged more than 23,000 hours of flight time in 723 military aircraft (though this number of the total number flown includes variants and sub variants of some types, and is not 723 distinct types).
Snodgrass was born on Long Island, New York, [5] to Reuben and Virginia Snodgrass. [6] His father had been a World War II Marine aviator flying F4U Corsairs in the Pacific and later became a Grumman engineering test pilot. [1] [3] [5] Snodgrass grew up in Lake Ronkonkoma, New York with his three sisters. [6]
Test pilot Sqn Ldr Trevor Sidney "Wimpy" Wade , DFC , AFC (27 January 1920 – 3 April 1951) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter ace , one of The Few and later a test pilot. He was killed test flying the Hawker P.1081 prototype fighter.