NOVA: How did you prepare yourself for your first test flight of the X-32? Yates: Well, test pilot school is a year of intense flight training, engineering, and report-writing, and that instilled ...

In fact, Barksdale literally wrote the book on the subject, authoring the military’s first test pilot manual in 1926. In Flight Testing of Aircraft, he lays out a program for testing different ...

Of course, nobody became a test pilot to generate data; they joined for the moments. One of those moments was a night flight Fulton made in a Lockheed F-94A, which, as he turned back toward ...

The U.S. Naval Test Pilot School Selection Board will convene May 30. The board will select highly qualified naval aviators and naval flight officers through the grade of lieutenant commander for ...