You know, there's an old story about an Air Force test pilot who was testing out one of our first fighter jets.
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The Air Force Flight Test Center Museum features a full size replica of Yeager's plane (the real one hangs in the Smithsonian) and actual aircraft that made the region famous.
Highlights include the Air Force Flight Test Center Museum, the food court and gift shop at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center and a "windshield tour" near the flight line where F-16s, KC-135s, F-22s, F-35s, B-1s or C-17s might be visible, said the spokesman.
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That's awful compared with the 6 hours and 13 minutes I got on the 13-inch MacBook Air in the same test.
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The U.S. Air Force is currently test-flying an optionally piloted supersonic drone over the Gulf of Mexico based on a modified F-16 fighter jet.
Edward A. Murphy was an engineer who was involved in a 1949 Air Force project MX981 to test how much deceleration a person could withstand in a crash.
Some models sold in Brazil, like the Chinese-made JAC J3, scored only one star in a recent crash test despite having air bags and antilock brakes.
Following his time as a test pilot the Air Commodore commanded No 29 Squadron during the Battle of Britain where he flew Blemheim's and later, Beaufighters.
An anthropologist friend of mine has worked on many assignments over the years, but his most interesting project qualified test pilots for the Air Force.
Also, the test is done without air-conditioning, which reduces fuel economy, and without any popular options that add weight to vehicles, thereby making them less efficient.
Built for American Airlines, NASA acquired the aircraft in 1974 and used it for test flights from Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert and ferry flights to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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The teenager tossed blades of grass into the air before many of his shots to test the wind.
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He is now employing a vision test used by the US Air Force which checks the ability to discriminate between white, black and grey - the lack of which is another symptom often seen in chronic ciguatera.
The Michigan lab was created to set standards and test vehicles after the 1970 Clean Air Act was passed.
Only last month, it fired one in the Gulf of Mexico towards a test range at the Eglin US Air Force Base in western Florida.
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The Air Force quickly released video of the March test, which showed the bomb falling through the sky and bursting into a massive fireball upon impact.
The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle is led by the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, and is designed to demonstrate reusable spacecraft technologies for America's future in space and operating experiments which can be returned to, and examined, on Earth.
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The symbol of the test-pilot school at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave desert, where Mr Armstrong spent years testing military jets, flying the X-15 at 4, 000mph to the very edge of the atmosphere, is a slide rule over a stylised aircraft.
New Zealand's position had the rather despondent air of England's in the infamous Headingley Test in 1981.
The air quality was monitored during last summer's test events in Beijing, with no health problems reported and findings indicating the health of the athletes was not impaired.
In the past week, Pakistan has test-fired two ballistic missiles and India responded by test-firing a new short-range air-defence missile.
Mississippi Gulf Coast has beautiful beaches, the nation's largest shipbuilder, a giant NASA rocket test complex, a huge oil refinery, air force and naval bases and a dozen casinos.
Coalition forces have been providing air support and intelligence, but the offensive is the first real test of the Iraqi security services.
The Environment Agency has previously conducted a test measuring the size of wood chip particles in the air, which came back well within the UK limit.
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The X-43A, or "Hyper-X" was built specifically to test scramjets, or supersonic ramjets, which burn fuel in air travelling at supersonic speeds.
To disperse the smoke, the testers boosted ventilation in the cockpit, replacing its air entirely once every minute, according to an FAA report of the test.
Armstrong spent seven years at NACA's high-speed flight station at Edwards Air Force Base in California, becoming one of the world's best test pilots.
So after weeks of test runs and fine-tuning, Soundcheck christened the space on air when the up-and-coming Escher String Quartet stopped by to perform a couple of pieces.
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