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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
In 1949 Glaser passed the Empire Test Pilots' School and became a test pilot at the Royal Aircraft Establishment. 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.
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.
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.
Bedford was the first pilot to fly the Hawker P.1127, Kestrel, and Harrier. In addition to his land-based test pilot duties, he also pioneered the operation of V/STOL aircraft from a ship - the P.1127 on HMS Ark Royal in 1963. From 1968, he became the Sales Manager for Hawker Siddeley Aviation and later marketing manager when it became British ...
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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]