Test Pilot

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Not Rated

30m

Documentary

December 1st, 1986

Test Pilot Season 1 Episodes

Season 1

January 19th, 1987

Students give their final joint presentations and the graduation dinner is held.

January 12th, 1987

The students head out to air fields in America, Scotland, and England to do their preview flights and write up final reports.

January 5th, 1987

Students begin actual test-flying and writing definitive reports.

December 15th, 1986

The students try out the dangerous - and normally forbidden - art of spinning and then recovering in an aircraft.

December 8th, 1986

The students test various failure scenarios, including cabin pressure failure, engine failure, and a helicopter's 'avoid curve'.

December 1st, 1986

Instruction begins for the military test pilots in Fixed Wing Course 44 and Rotary Wing Course 23 and Empire Test Pilot's School.