At the Empire Test Pilots' School (ETPS) at Boscombe Down in Wiltshire, highly skilled military aviators are turned into an elite within an elite We’re a couple of thousand feet above fields and trees ...
Vertical Aerospace’s chief test pilot Si Davies has hailed the success of the initial wing-borne flight of the company’s VX4 prototype, the first of around a dozen such sorties expected with the ...
Isabelle de Montet-Guerin, 32, is Airbus’ youngest and first British female test pilot, with almost 15 years of experience. Her childhood passion has led her to fly some of the largest aeroplanes in ...
Air Force Capt. Nicholas 'Hammer' Helms sits at the controls of a variable stability flight simulator at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Credit: Photo: AP Captain Nicholas "Hammer" Helms, 29, ...
Andre Turcat pilots Concorde's maiden flight from Toulouse in 1969 - as the BBC's Raymond Baxter reported Andre Turcat, a French test pilot who was the first person to fly the Concorde, has died aged ...
Peter Baker, who flew the first and last flight in G-BBDG, test pilots Alan Smith, Johnnie Walker and Roy Radford, and flight engineer Alan Heywood gathered at the birthplace of Concorde to welcome ...
To most people, test pilots sound like members of a mysterious profession but they are actually the top aces of the air force. And they not only test, but also help design, the latest aircraft. Many ...
Eight people have been placed under formal investigation for manslaughter following the death of a British ex RAF test pilot in Italy. Experienced flyer Dave Ashley, 49, died after his Leonardo Spa ...
A new aptitude test has been launched to encourage more people to consider training to be an airline pilot. Airline easyJet said its move followed research suggesting one in two Britons do not know ...
The first British test pilot of Concorde has died at the age of 77. Brian Trubshaw described the maiden 22-minute flight from Filton near Bristol to RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire on 9 April 1969 as ...
Andre Turcat, a French test pilot who was the first person to fly the Concorde, has died aged 94. As chief test pilot for the programme, Turcat took off from a Toulouse airfield in March 1969 in ...
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