How to Use test pilot in a Sentence

test pilot

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  • That’s a clue Mitchell is a test pilot in the beginning of the movie.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 Dec. 2019
  • All of them were white men, many of whom were test pilots.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Duke was a test pilot who flew F-104 Starfighter jets in the Air Force.
    — Doug McKelway, Washington Examiner, 22 Feb. 2021
  • As a test pilot, this was one of the highlights of my career.
    — Terry Virts, Wired, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The world's most famous test pilot, Yeager, passed away this month at the age of 97.
    — Jaide Timm-Garcia, CNN, 19 Dec. 2020
  • Wilmore and Hobaugh were students of Foreman at the Navy test pilot school.
    — Dennis Hohenberger, Courant Community, 17 Apr. 2018
  • He was born in Pomona, Calif., and is a naval aviator and test pilot.
    — Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Despite the sky-high stress, Mr. Haise recalls no cross words among the three test pilots.
    — Marcia Dunn, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2020
  • The first flight, in December, was with two test pilots.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Foote served four and a half months in the brig and later went on to become a test pilot in civilian life.
    — Jeff Wise, Popular Mechanics, 13 Aug. 2018
  • Grogan flew the 525 Relentless three to four times a week as a test pilot.
    — Gordon Dickson, star-telegram, 17 Jan. 2018
  • The record-breaking test pilot tweeted that the U.S. was the first to get to the Moon, among other historic achievements.
    — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 4 Sep. 2018
  • On the spectrum of thinkers and doers, most test pilots are on the doers side, but Neil was way over on the thinkers side — even among that New Nine group.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 15 Oct. 2018
  • Just a few weeks ago, the former Air Force test pilot became the oldest person in space.
    — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2024
  • But designers and test pilots labored to make an airplane easy to handle, whether on the ground or in in the air.
    — Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2018
  • In 1947, Chuck Yeager, the Air Force test pilot, became the first person to break the sound barrier.
    — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 25 June 2021
  • But only test pilots will be flying these for the time being.
    — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 15 Dec. 2019
  • The two astronauts, both [Butch Wilmore] and [Sunita Williams] are test pilots.
    — Linah Mohammad, NPR, 6 May 2024
  • He was admitted to flight-training school, joined the Air Force, flew jet fighters and served as a test pilot.
    — Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2019
  • In 1961, Navy test pilot Alan Shepard became the first American to fly to space.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2020
  • From the observation deck on a hangar rooftop, the aircraft seems poised and precise as the two test pilots worked through their day’s test card.
    — Eric Adams, WIRED, 5 July 2019
  • After the war, the West Virginia native became a test pilot -- and the first person to break the sound barrier.
    — oregonlive, 28 Dec. 2020
  • The shift from test pilot to priest still captures the imagination of his grandson.
    — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Nov. 2021
  • To do this, the test pilots needed a way to see the vortices’ cores, in order to avoid steering into them—which would risk crashing the plane.
    — The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
  • No one would quarrel with the Apollo 11 commander, test pilot and first man on the moon being high on that list.
    — James R. Hansen, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2019
  • Devon Dewey, a drone test pilot from Utah, visited the Rockport Reservoir for the first time and snagged photos and video of what is left of the ghost town.
    — Keira Wingate, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Aboard the ship with Bezos were his brother, Mark, along with an 82-year-old former test pilot and an 18-year-old student.
    — NBC News, 20 July 2021
  • The legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager, who became the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound, died on Monday, December 7.
    — Mark Zastrow, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2020
  • The commander of the mission will be Reid Wiseman, a naval aviator and test pilot.
    — Wendy Whitman Cobb, The Conversation, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Pilot Billie Flynn, one of the most accomplished test pilots around, has done it all in an F-35.
    — Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2023

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