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USAF Command Pilot wings. U.S. Air Force aeronautical ratings are military aviation skill standards established and awarded by the United States Air Force for commissioned officers participating in "regular and frequent flight", [n 1] either aerially or in space, in performance of their duties.
Space-available travel, also known as Space-A travel, is a means by which members of United States Uniformed Services (United States Military, reservists and retirees, United States Department of Defense civilian personnel under certain circumstances), and these groups' family members, are permitted to travel on aircraft of the Air Mobility Command under the jurisdiction of the United States ...
The U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School (USAF TPS) is the Air Force's advanced flight training school that trains experimental test pilots, flight test engineers, and flight test navigators to carry out tests and evaluations of new aerospace weapon systems [1] and also other aircraft of the U.S. Air Force.
The final phase of the military aircraft flight test is the Operational Test (OT). OT is conducted by a government-only test team with the dictate to certify that the aircraft is suitable and effective to carry out the intended mission. [citation needed] Flight testing of military aircraft is often conducted at military flight test facilities.
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
Western pilots have been lured into training Chinese pilots by "tons of money" and opportunities "to fly really exotic" Chinese aircraft, said a U.S. official familiar with the matter.
The Osprey is a military aircraft that can take off like a helicopter and fly like an airplane. A string of accidents over the last two years has renewed questions on whether is is safe to fly.
Indian Air Force Test Pilot School, Bangalore, India (founded 1957) U.S. Army Aviation Technical Test Center, currently based at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama, United States (founded 1957, as the U.S. Army Aviation Test Board based at Fort Rucker) [11] [12] China Flight Test Establishment, based at Xi'an, China (founded 1959) [13] [14]