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  • U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School History

    The Early Years An airplane - any airplane - is absolutely useless unless its flying characteristics are known. What pilot would take a plane into the air without knowing its stalling speed, its good traits, its idiosyncrasies? Beyond this, its performance levels must be known before any profitable