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unusual facts about test flight



Jack Woolams

Woolams joined Bell Aircraft later that month and was soon transferred from the test flight division to the experimental research division.

Kennedy Giant

Following the unimpressive test flight, the design was cancelled and the prototype was left derelict at Northolt Aerodrome for a number of years.

Petersham, New South Wales

Mosquito HR576 RAF (UK) disintegrated over the inner western Sydney suburbs of Leichhardt and Petersham on 2 May 1945 during an air test flight.


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Akilles Järvinen

Akilles died in 1943 when the VL Pyry (serial number PY-37) trainer aircraft that he was flying in and that was piloted by Captain Erkki Pohjanheimo, crashed during a test flight.

Anti-satellite weapon

Only one test flight of the anti-satellite mission was carried out, making a mock attack on the Explorer 6 at an altitude of 156 miles (251 km).

Brockworth, Gloucestershire

On April 8, 1941 the first test flight of the Gloster E28/39 with a turbo-jet engine invented by Sir Frank Whittle took off from the company's flight test airfield at Brockworth.

Diamond DA50

The DA50 made its maiden test flight on April 4, 2007 at the Wiener Neustadt East Airport, Austria.

Gotha G.IV

The aircraft was repaired only to crash on the first test flight two months later in Soesterberg.

Holden C. Richardson

On October 4, 1918, Richardson performed the crucial test flight of the NC-1 flying boat from Jamaica Bay.

Ihab Ali Nawawi

After Wadih el-Hage asked Essam al-Ridi to sell a private Sabre-40 jet on the Egyptian market, al-Ridi traveled to Khartoum where he met with Nawawi and the pair of them tried to repair the plane; however the brakes failed after a test flight with both men flying, and the plane crashed into a sand dune.

Ikarus IO

The new prototype is named Ikarus IO (Coastal Reconnaissance) and the first test flight took place on the Danube at Novi Sad, September 1926th year.

LM-700

In addition, two boilerplate satellites were launched on a test flight of the Chinese Long March 2C rocket.

Mercury 1

Mercury-Atlas 1, a test flight of the Atlas rocket and Mercury spacecraft

Mercury 2

Mercury-Atlas 2, an unmanned test flight of the Atlas rocket and Mercury spacecraft.

Mercury 3

Mercury-Atlas 3, an unmanned test flight of the Atlas rocket and Mercury spacecraft.

Mercury 4

Mercury-Atlas 4, an unmanned orbital test flight of the Atlas rocket and Mercury spacecraft.

Morane-Saulnier MS.230

A MS.230 was used at the end of the movie The Blue Max as the "new monoplane" in which Lt. Stachel is killed during a test flight.

MV Freedom Star

She served a similar role in recovering the first test flight of the Ares I and was anticipated to continue recovering boosters for the Constellation program before it was canceled in 2010.

MV Liberty Star

She served a similar role in recovering the first test flight of the Ares I and was anticipated to continue recovering boosters for the Constellation program before it was canceled in 2010.

Orteig Prize

Stanton Hall Wooster, are killed when their Keystone Pathfinder, American Legion, fails to gain altitude during a test flight at Langley Field, Virginia, about a week before they expected to attempt the New York to Paris flight.

April 16 - A test flight of Byrd's $100,000 Fokker C-2 monoplane, America results in a nose-over crash, resulting in Byrd suffering a broken wrist, pilot Floyd Bennett breaking his collarbone and leg, and flight engineer George Otto Noville requiring surgery for a blood clot.

Paul R. Hill

In the immediate post war period Hill made a number of significant contributions to the development of ram jet technology, including establishing and supervising the Wallops Island ram jet test flight programme and authoring the first NACA technical paper on ram jet technology.

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The children's novel The Sound of Propellors by Clive King follows the adventure of an Indian schoolboy who stows away on a fictional test flight from England to India, which is sabotaged by a German spy.