They soar into the desert skies, piloting some of the most sophisticated aircraft the world has ever seen. They have an innate understanding of high-performance aircraft and are always pushing the ...

Test pilots are highly skilled aviators responsible for rigorous testing of aircraft prototypes and new airframes to ensure safety and identify issues, often operating beyond normal flight parameters.

Lt. Col. (Ret) Igor Suhr flew operationally the F-15, MQ-1, MQ-9 and B-2, and after retiring he became the lead B-2 Operational Test Pilot with the 72nd Test and Evaluation Squadron. A local Missouri ...

The US Air Force (USAF) has formally begun operations with the Embraer A-29C Super Tucano turboprop, which is being incorporated into the service’s test pilot programme at Edwards AFB in California.

The A-29C will be used both for training as part of the Test Pilot School’s curriculum and experimental testing of mission systems, avionics, sensors and weapons. The A-29C Super Tucanos of the U.S.

Colonel George London is a retired Test Pilot from Wilmington. His achievements go beyond the skies, as being one of the few black test pilots in the country and being the first pilot to test fly the ...

Berchman Richard, a former test pilot, recently visited the U.S. Army Aviation Museum to see the AH-56 Cheyenne helicopter he flew in the 1970s. Richard was one of only six pilots to fly the Cheyenne, ...