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Definition of Test pilot
1. Noun. A pilot hired to fly experimental airplanes through maneuvers designed to test them.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Test Pilot
Literary usage of Test pilot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot by James B. Stockdale (1995)
"I had been a fighter pilot most of that navy time—and had gotten into high
technology as an experimental test pilot at our Naval Air Test Center at Patuxent ..."
2. Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions by William D. Compton (1996)
"... what was the point of a person in space (especially a test pilot)? Most of
the engineers in the Space Task Group agreed with this viewpoint. ..."
3. Textbook of Applied Aeronautic Engineering by Henry Woodhouse (1920)
"Central Park, L. L, by the Company's test pilot, ... and test pilot in the Royal
Air Force for 18 months. On the first altitude test a height of 6000 feet ..."
4. Military Ethics: Reflections on Principles-The Profession of Arms, Military edited by Malham M. Wakin (1994)
"Afterward, I lived in stress for thirty years, as a fighter pilot, experimental
test pilot, and prisoner of war. My last Navy assignment was the presidency ..."
5. Aircraft Year Book by Manufacturers Aircraft Association (1921)
"27, 1920, sent up a Packard built Lepere biplane which broke the world's altitude
record held by Roland Rohlfs, chief test pilot for the Curtiss Aeroplane ..."
6. Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicle by Roger E. Bilstein (1999)
"This feat so impressed ex-test pilot Kroeger that he lapsed into German in
describing it to his colleagues after the plane landed. ..."
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