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Léon Lemartin, the world's first professional test pilot,[1] under contract to Louis Blériot in c. 1910Jimmy Doolittle in 1928 with his Curtiss R3C-2, around the time he pioneered blind flyingChuck Yeager and the Bell X-1, first test pilot to break the sound barrier at Mach 1 in 1947Neil Armstrong and the North American X-15 after a research test flight in 1960
A test pilot is an aircraft pilot with additional training to fly and evaluate experimental, newly produced and modified aircraft with specific maneuvers, known as flight test techniques.[2]
^Léon Lemartin (Ai. 1899)
^Stinton, Darrol. Flying Qualities and Flight Testing of the Airplane. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., 1996, p. 265
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