"Major Tim" Peake has a degree in flight dynamics and is a qualified test pilot.
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After the word leaked, "we started to celebrate somewhat, " enjoying good times at a local test pilot watering hole.
Last year Ogilvy used text messaging in a test pilot with its then-client, mattress and bed manufacturer Select Comfort.
And leave the test pilot stuff to the Walter Mittys of the world.
The best test pilot had the fewest number of scars, because it generally indicated a good balance of risk and intelligence.
Chosen for reasons of self-esteem and motivation, the 13-15-year-olds will be mentored by test pilots from the Empire Test Pilot School.
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Neil Armstrong served as a Navy pilot who flew almost 80 missions in Korea before becoming a NASA test pilot and astronaut.
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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Previously a military test pilot, Mr Roche was employed by a major airline as a commander on passenger jets, the AAIB report said.
Yurchikhin, 54, is a veteran of three previous spaceflights, while the 36-year-old Parmitano, a former test pilot, is making his first trip into space.
With Eclipse Aviation test pilot Terry Tomeny sitting in the right seat, I flew the newly certified Eclipse 500 off Albuquerque Sunport's Runway 8.
In a statement, his family praised him as a "reluctant American hero" who had "served his nation proudly, as a navy fighter pilot, test pilot, and astronaut".
The film is reportedly about a test pilot who returns to Earth after an experimental flight to discover it's 96 years in the future.
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.
Before he bought his North American NA-50, he persuaded his friend Chuck Yeager, the legendary test pilot, to fly to California and check it out with him.
After returning and graduating from Purdue, Neil applied to become a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards Air Force Base.
Manager Lloyd Cliff says this is where a lot of Army cadets learned to fly among them test pilot Chuck Yeager, who later went on to break the sound barrier.
With Eclipse Aviation test pilot Terry Tomeny sitting in the right seat, I flew the newly certified Eclipse 500--the pioneer in a new category of "very light jets"--off Albuquerque International Sunport's runway 8.
After the War, he became a test pilot.
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So it is all the more surprising to learn that not only is she a test pilot for one of the world's biggest aircraft manufacturers, she is the only woman in France holding such a position.
Lewis became good friends with legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager, as well as with Steve Hinton and Stewart Dawson, two of the top pilots flying warbirds Hinton is the only other pilot allowed to fly Glacier Girl.
Set in the remote, post-apocalyptic desert landscape that is Landers, California, the 38-foot high white dome was built in the 1950s as a research facility by George Van Tassel, a test pilot and aeronautical engineer for Howard Hughes.
"Each time we renew the license, we check up the balloon and we test the pilot, " Sherif said.
He documents their military test-pilot backgrounds, their all-American wholesomeness, their intelligence (Mr Aldrin had a doctorate from MIT) and their self-serving egos.
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.
Similarly, the origins of the microwave oven (an offshoot of radar), the folding baby buggy (the brainchild of a test-pilot inspired by aircraft landing gear) and traffic lights (one of the first of which exploded outside the Houses of Parliament) are not widely known.
Census determined during the spring pilot test that the online census forms were user-friendly, Leslie said.
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If Twitter goes that route, it would not be surprising to see government maintained accounts included in a small pilot test before the new measures are released to the public.
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The FDA is working with the Brookings Institution on the one-page guides that could eventually replace other materials, says Denise Hinton, a senior program manager with the FDA. A pilot test is awaiting funding from the Office of Management and Budget.
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