Sentence examples for of test pilots from inspiring English sources

So a group of test pilots got together and considered what to do.

Mistakes happen in test flights, and the death of test pilots has not been uncommon in the history of space flight.

New Elizabethans like the young Hamilton-Paterson thrilled to the feats of test pilots scything the latest experimental jets over and along genteel south coast resorts, or else pirouetting above them at crowded Farnborough air shows.

The film is right that it was Eisenhower who insisted that astronauts be drawn from a field of test pilots – even though they would have little role in actually piloting the craft.

To make room for that klieg light — the aforementioned binky — you have to insert an oval plastic frame that stretches your lips like those 1950s photos of test pilots in wind tunnels.

The crew of Apollo 11 were not chosen for the mission because they were in any way special among the elite group of test pilots who comprised the corps of American astronauts: it was simply their turn on the flight roster.

What brought Justin British stardom was the character of test pilot Philip Peel in David Lean's The Sound Barrier (1952), especially his affecting scenes with Dinah Sheridan; and as Terence Rattigan's romantic hero in the Harold French film, The Man Who Loved Redheads (1954).

Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson has defended Virgin Galactic's space programme, insisting the risk is "worth it" following the fatal crash of the SpaceShipTwo, which resulted in the death of test pilot Michael Alsbury.

The 1,244bhp Venom clocked its record-breaking figure in the hands of test pilot Brian Smith on 14 February on Florida's Space Shuttle landing runway.

The hardest part of test-pilot school is not the flying but the writing.

In 2001, CBS opened a research facility in Las Vegas called Television City, with a primary aim of testing pilot programming.