Pilot uji coba

Pilot uji coba adalah seorang penerbang yang menerbangkan pesawat baru dan dimodifikasi dalam manuver spesifik, yang dikenal sebagai teknik uji coba penerbangan (flight test techniques)^[2] atau FTTs, yang membolehkan hasilnya untuk diukur dan rancangannya dievaluasi.

Pilot uji coba terkenal

Bert Acosta
Sergei Anokhin (pilot uji coba)
Michael T. Alsbury
Scott D. Anderson
Neil Armstrong
Roland Beamont
Bill Bedford
Charles F. Bolden, Jr.
Eric "Winkle" Brown
Albert Scott Crossfield
John Cunningham
Geoffrey de Havilland, Jr.
John Derry
Heini Dittmar
Neville Duke
Einar Enevoldson
Yuri Garnaev
John Glenn
Chalmers Goodlin
Mikhail Gromov
Boone Guyton
Chris Hadfield
Harry Hawker
Hedley Hazelden
Bob Hoover
Howard Hughes
Bill Humble
"Tex" Johnston
Scott Kelly
Anatoly Kvochur
Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr.
Léon Lemartin
Anatoli Levchenko
Tony LeVier
Mike Melvill
John Lankester Parker
Timothy Peake
Alexey Perelet
Marina Popovich
John Cyril Porte
Jeffrey Quill
Hanna Reitsch
Ewald Rohlfs
Gerry Sayer
Rimantas Stankevičius
Amet-khan Sultan
Mutt Summers
Richard G. Thomas
Brian Trubshaw
Andre Turcat
Joseph John "Tym" Tymczyszyn
Igor Volk
Joseph A. Walker
Erich Warsitz
Rakesh Sharma
George Welch
Fritz Wendel
Chuck Yeager
Janusz Żurakowski

Referensi

^ Léon Lemartin (Ai. 1899)
^ Stinton, Darrol. Flying Qualities and Flight Testing of the Airplane. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., 1996, p. 265

Hallion, Richard P.Test Pilots: Frontiersmen of Flight. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Press, 1988. ISBN 978-0874745498
Warsitz, Lutz: THE FIRST JET PILOT - The Story of German Test Pilot Erich Warsitz, Pen and Sword Books Ltd., England, 2009, ISBN 978-1-84415-818-8

Pranala luar

Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai Test pilots.

The Society of Experimental Test Pilots
Society of Flight Test Engineers
Empire Test Pilots School, United Kingdom
National Test Pilot School, Mojave, California
U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School, Edwards AFB, California
U.S. Naval Test Pilot School Diarsipkan 2015-06-28 di Wayback Machine., NAS Patuxent River, Maryland
EPNER Diarsipkan 2009-04-25 di Wayback Machine.
Memorial website for test pilots who died in flying accidents in the UK
Flight list of display and test pilots at 1957 Farnborough air show
Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment, Canadian Flight Test Centre
Indian Air Force Test Pilots School, Bangalore
The Scott Crossfield Foundation
website on Erich Warsitz (world’s first jet pilot)
Oficial European test for pilots