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Arthur Warren "Kit" Murray (December 26, 1918 – July 25, 2011) [1] was a United States test pilot who flew test flights on the Bell X-1 and the Bell X-5 aircraft. He was the first pilot to see the curvature of the Earth and set an unofficial altitude record of more than 90,000 feet at over twice the speed of sound.
Captain Katrina Mumaw (born c. 1983 in Lancaster, California), is a United States Air Force Academy graduate and accomplished pilot who holds several records in aviation. [1] On July 12, 1994, at the age of eleven, [2] Mumaw became the youngest person to pilot a Russian MIG-29 fighter jet [3] and also the youngest to break the sound barrier. [2]
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
He is also the only test captain to play in excess of 100 test matches. (109 – 108 as captain for South Africa, and 1 for ICC). [89] [90] Smith holds the world record of the highest number of wins in test matches as a captain with 53 wins. Smith holds the most centuries (15) by a captain in test match wins. He also holds the world record of a ...
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The home side went on to win the match comfortably, and Ponting overtook Shane Warne's record of 91 Test victories and surpassing Steve Waugh as crickets most successful Test captain. [264] Ponting scored 853 runs at 38.77 in 13 Tests in 2009, and scored only one century and seven half-centuries. [ 265 ]
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