Pilot uji coba adalah seorang penerbang yang menerbangkan pesawat baru dan dimodifikasi dalam manuver spesifik, yang dikenal sebagai teknik uji coba penerbangan (flight test techniques) atau FTTs, yang membolehkan hasilnya untuk diukur dan rancangannya dievaluasi.
Pilot uji coba terkenal sunting
- Bert Acosta
- Sergei Anokhin (pilot uji coba)
- Michael T. Alsbury
- Scott D. Anderson
- Neil Armstrong
- Roland Beamont
- Bill Bedford
- Charles F. Bolden, Jr.
- Eric "Winkle" Brown
- Albert Scott Crossfield
- John Cunningham
- Geoffrey de Havilland, Jr.
- John Derry
- Heini Dittmar
- Neville Duke
- Einar Enevoldson
- Yuri Garnaev
- John Glenn
- Chalmers Goodlin
- Mikhail Gromov
- Boone Guyton
- Chris Hadfield
- Harry Hawker
- Hedley Hazelden
- Bob Hoover
- Howard Hughes
- Bill Humble
- "Tex" Johnston
- Scott Kelly
- Anatoly Kvochur
- Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr.
- Léon Lemartin
- Anatoli Levchenko
- Tony LeVier
- Mike Melvill
- John Lankester Parker
- Timothy Peake
- Alexey Perelet
- Marina Popovich
- John Cyril Porte
- Jeffrey Quill
- Hanna Reitsch
- Ewald Rohlfs
- Gerry Sayer
- Rimantas Stankevičius
- Amet-khan Sultan
- Mutt Summers
- Richard G. Thomas
- Brian Trubshaw
- Andre Turcat
- Joseph John "Tym" Tymczyszyn
- Igor Volk
- Joseph A. Walker
- Erich Warsitz
- Rakesh Sharma
- George Welch
- Fritz Wendel
- Chuck Yeager
- Janusz Żurakowski
Referensi sunting
- Léon Lemartin (Ai. 1899)
- Stinton, Darrol. Flying Qualities and Flight Testing of the Airplane. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., 1996, p. 265
Pranala luar sunting
Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai Test pilots.
- The Society of Experimental Test Pilots
- Society of Flight Test Engineers
- , United Kingdom
- National Test Pilot School, Mojave, California
- , Edwards AFB, California
- U.S. Naval Test Pilot School 2015-06-28 di Wayback Machine., NAS Patuxent River, Maryland
- EPNER 2009-04-25 di Wayback Machine.
- Memorial website for test pilots who died in flying accidents in the UK
- Flight list of display and test pilots at 1957 Farnborough air show
- , Canadian Flight Test Centre
- , Bangalore
- website on Erich Warsitz (world’s first jet pilot)
- Oficial European test for pilots