test pilot
noun
: a pilot who specializes in putting new or experimental airplanes through maneuvers designed to test them (as for strength) by producing strains in excess of normal
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The test pilots were to originally spend eight days aboard the ISS in June, but this grew to eight months after NASA decided to bring Boeing's faulty Starliner capsule back to Earth without a crew in September.
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Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
One of my test pilot school classmates, Josh Kutryk, was selected to the Canadian astronaut program.
—Jim Clash, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
The movie starred Matthew McConaughey as Cooper, a former NASA test pilot living as a farmer on a futuristic Earth where life is increasingly threatened due to global famine in the 2060s.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 6 Dec. 2024
But once a test pilot is done with his job, everyone else who flies that plane doesn’t have to worry.
—J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 5 Dec. 2024
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Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
One of my test pilot school classmates, Josh Kutryk, was selected to the Canadian astronaut program.
—Jim Clash, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
The movie starred Matthew McConaughey as Cooper, a former NASA test pilot living as a farmer on a futuristic Earth where life is increasingly threatened due to global famine in the 2060s.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 6 Dec. 2024
But once a test pilot is done with his job, everyone else who flies that plane doesn’t have to worry.
—J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Test pilot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/test%20pilot. Accessed 16 Jan. 2025.
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