The phrase "prototype flight" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is most commonly used when referring to the first flight of a new or experimental aircraft, vehicle, or device. Example: "The company announced the successful completion of their prototype flight, marking a major milestone in their development of a revolutionary new aircraft."
This system will be tried out on the prototype flight in America.The ground crew can monitor both the flight and the pilot with telemetry.
Flying cars – Airbus wants to make them happen, and it's targeting the end of this year for a prototype flight.
The prototype flight is scheduled from Hokkaido, Japan in 2011, preparatory for a long duration balloon flight from the Antarctic in 2014.
The prototype flight will critically test the novel instrument technologies, analysis techniques, and background rejection procedures we have developed for high resolution Compton telescopes.
The U.S. Department of Defense has booked a prototype flight on Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne to demonstrate the capabilities of the company's Low Earth Orbit launch service, Virgin Orbit said today.
For thirty years, the twenty-six-foot prototype whose flight tests the articles described has been hidden under a large black cloth in a T-hangar at a central New Jersey airfield, awaiting further developments.
There is this video of a prototype taking flight, but it's at about 2,000 feet in the air (not 65K) and it's at a smaller scale than the proposed Solara models.
Red romaine lettuce plants grow inside in a prototype VEGGIE flight pillow (photo courtesy of NASA/Gioia Massa).
Unmanned spacecraft are unique in that they rarely undergo prototype test flights; rather, they are carried into orbit with their full complement of operational instrumentation on tested launch vehicles.
ILC Dover performed detailed design and fabrication of subscale and full-scale prototypes and flight airbag systems.
This paper presents aerodynamic and mechanical design, prototyping and flight control system design of a new unmanned aerial vehicle SUAVI (Sabanci University Unmanned Aerial VehIcle).
