Pilot uji coba

jmpl|Léon Lemartin, pilot uji coba pertama di dunia,Léon Lemartin (Ai. 1899) di bawah kontrak dengan Louis Blériot pada 1910
jmpl|Brigjen Chuck Yeager di depan pesawat pencetak sejarah Bell X-1, pilot uji coba pertama yang mematahkan pembatas suara pada 1947

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)Stinton, Darrol. Flying Qualities and Flight Testing of the Airplane. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., 1996, p. 265 atau FTTs, yang membolehkan hasilnya untuk diukur dan rancangannya dievaluasi.

 Pilot uji coba terkenal 

 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 

 Hallion, Richard P.Test Pilots: Frontiersmen of Flight. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Press, 1988. 
 Warsitz, Lutz: THE FIRST JET PILOT - The Story of German Test Pilot Erich Warsitz, Pen and Sword Books Ltd., England, 2009, 

 Pranala luar 

 The Society of Experimental Test Pilots
 Society of Flight Test Engineers
 Empire Test Pilots School, United Kingdom
 National Test Pilot School, Mojave, California
 U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School, Edwards AFB, California
 U.S. Naval Test Pilot School , NAS Patuxent River, Maryland
 EPNER 
 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
 Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment, Canadian Flight Test Centre
 Indian Air Force Test Pilots School, Bangalore
 The Scott Crossfield Foundation
 website on Erich Warsitz (world’s first jet pilot)
 Oficial European test for pilots 

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