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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As described in the comics, Hal was a test pilot who became the first human member of the Green Lantern Corps., an intergalactic organization of beings that safeguard the cosmos, armed with powerful rings.
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Nick Romano, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2024
Veteran military test pilots and space station astronauts, Williams and Wilmore will spend the next several months working as researchers in the lab complex alongside the station's other long-duration crew members.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2024
After nearly three months, the Starliner spacecraft returned to Earth without the two test pilots after undocking from the space station Friday night and parachuting into the New Mexico desert early Saturday.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 Sep. 2024
Joe Acaba, leader of NASA’s astronaut office, further emphasized that the pair are test pilots who willingly and intentionally take on risk.
—Michael Sheetz, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2024
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Nick Romano, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2024
Veteran military test pilots and space station astronauts, Williams and Wilmore will spend the next several months working as researchers in the lab complex alongside the station's other long-duration crew members.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2024
After nearly three months, the Starliner spacecraft returned to Earth without the two test pilots after undocking from the space station Friday night and parachuting into the New Mexico desert early Saturday.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 Sep. 2024
Joe Acaba, leader of NASA’s astronaut office, further emphasized that the pair are test pilots who willingly and intentionally take on risk.
—Michael Sheetz, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2024
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