How to Use test pilot in a Sentence

test pilot

noun

• That’s a clue Mitchell is a test pilot in the beginning of the movie.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 Dec. 2019
• All of them were white men, many of whom were test pilots.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2023
• Duke was a test pilot who flew F-104 Starfighter jets in the Air Force.
  — Doug McKelway, Washington Examiner, 22 Feb. 2021
• As a test pilot, this was one of the highlights of my career.
  — Terry Virts, Wired, 15 Sep. 2020
• The world's most famous test pilot, Yeager, passed away this month at the age of 97.
  — Jaide Timm-Garcia, CNN, 19 Dec. 2020
• He was born in Pomona, Calif., and is a naval aviator and test pilot.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 4 Apr. 2023
• Despite the sky-high stress, Mr. Haise recalls no cross words among the three test pilots.
  — Marcia Dunn, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2020
• The first flight, in December, was with two test pilots.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2019
• Foote served four and a half months in the brig and later went on to become a test pilot in civilian life.
  — Jeff Wise, Popular Mechanics, 13 Aug. 2018
• The record-breaking test pilot tweeted that the U.S. was the first to get to the Moon, among other historic achievements.
  — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 4 Sep. 2018
• On the spectrum of thinkers and doers, most test pilots are on the doers side, but Neil was way over on the thinkers side — even among that New Nine group.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 15 Oct. 2018
• In 1947, Chuck Yeager, the Air Force test pilot, became the first person to break the sound barrier.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 25 June 2021
• But only test pilots will be flying these for the time being.
  — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 15 Dec. 2019
• He was admitted to flight-training school, joined the Air Force, flew jet fighters and served as a test pilot.
  — Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2019
• In 1961, Navy test pilot Alan Shepard became the first American to fly to space.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2020
• From the observation deck on a hangar rooftop, the aircraft seems poised and precise as the two test pilots worked through their day’s test card.
  — Eric Adams, WIRED, 5 July 2019
• After the war, the West Virginia native became a test pilot -- and the first person to break the sound barrier.
  — oregonlive, 28 Dec. 2020
• The shift from test pilot to priest still captures the imagination of his grandson.
  — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Nov. 2021
• To do this, the test pilots needed a way to see the vortices’ cores, in order to avoid steering into them—which would risk crashing the plane.
  — The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
• No one would quarrel with the Apollo 11 commander, test pilot and first man on the moon being high on that list.
  — James R. Hansen, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2019
• Devon Dewey, a drone test pilot from Utah, visited the Rockport Reservoir for the first time and snagged photos and video of what is left of the ghost town.
  — Keira Wingate, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2021
• Aboard the ship with Bezos were his brother, Mark, along with an 82-year-old former test pilot and an 18-year-old student.
  — NBC News, 20 July 2021
• The legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager, who became the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound, died on Monday, December 7.
  — Mark Zastrow, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2020
• The commander of the mission will be Reid Wiseman, a naval aviator and test pilot.
  — Wendy Whitman Cobb, The Conversation, 3 Apr. 2023
• Pilot Billie Flynn, one of the most accomplished test pilots around, has done it all in an F-35.
  — Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2023
• Prior to that, Virts was also an Air Force test pilot and fighter pilot.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 31 Dec. 2020
• But the French test pilot Jacqueline Auriol soon bested her record, by 63 miles per hour.
  — Maggie Shipstead, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2021
• Admiral Feightner had many close calls (though never a crash) both in combat and as a test pilot.
  — Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2020
• Armstrong was the consummate test pilot who flew the fabled X-15 rocket plane to the edge of space and cooly overcame in-flight emergencies.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 15 July 2019
• Like many a test pilot, Shoemaker was casual when describing the risk involved and the process of flying the plane.
  — Ashlee Vance, Bloomberg.com, 6 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024