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  2. Test pilot - Wikipedia

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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

  3. Mikhail Vasilyevich Kozlov - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Ann Baumgartner - Wikipedia

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    Ann G. Baumgartner Carl (August 27, 1918 – March 20, 2008) was an American aviator who became the first American woman to fly a United States Army Air Forces jet aircraft when she flew the Bell YP-59A jet fighter at Wright Field as a test pilot during World War II. [2]

  5. Cooper–Harper rating scale - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Spence M. Armstrong - Wikipedia

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    Spence M. "Sam" Armstrong (born 1934 [1]) is a retired three-star general, combat veteran, and test pilot in the United States Air Force (USAF). In his thirty-four years of military service, he served in command assignments at five different levels in the USAF and retired as vice commander of Air Force Systems Command.

  7. Bill Bedford - Wikipedia

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    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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  9. Ben Howard (aviator) - Wikipedia

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    He also served as test pilot on the Budd RB-1 Conestoga and other aircraft. He was elected an Honorary Fellow [ 7 ] of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots . Using knowledge gained from his racing days, he developed the Howard Optimizer Kit for the DC-3, and at the end of his career was doing low-speed wind tunnel tests for the Carroll ...