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Following graduation, White was selected to attend the U. S. Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base and was then assigned as a test pilot at the Aeronautical Systems Division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

Category: U. S. Air Force Test Pilot School alumni

Spitfire: A Test Pilot ’ s Story.

* Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR ( 1990 )

Gable and Tracy also made two other films together, Test Pilot and Boom Town, before Tracy eventually insisted on the same top billing clause in his MGM contract that Gable had enjoyed, effectively ending the American cinema's most famous screen team.

Tracy was reunited with Gable and Loy for 1938's Test Pilot.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz lived with Tracy during the production of Test Pilot, and recounted that the actor would lock himself in his bedroom " working extremely hard " each night.

Glenn returned to NAS Patuxent River, appointed to the Test Pilot School ( class 12 ).

Category: United States Naval Test Pilot School alumni

Test Pilot is a 1938 film directed by Victor Fleming, starring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, and featuring Lionel Barrymore.

Test Pilot was written by Howard Hawks, Vincent Lawrence, John Lee Mahin, Frank Wead and Waldemar Young.

Test Pilot utilized authentic United States Army Air Corps ( USAAC ) airfield settings and was able to obtain rights to film using Boeing's new Y1B-17, which was destined to become the progenitor of the wartime B-17 bomber series.

Proving to be an " audience-pleaser " in 1938, Test Pilot also found favor with critics, with The New York Times review characterizing it as "... one of those irresistible MGM potboilers of the 1930s that coast along on sheer star power.

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He then attended the U. S. Naval Test Pilot School, graduating in June 1984.

Category: United States Naval Test Pilot School alumni

In 1950, he attended the U. S. Naval Test Pilot School at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland.

He was also project test pilot on the F5D Skylancer, and his last five months at Patuxent were spent as an instructor in the Test Pilot School.

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These include the 1988 Liethen-Tittle Award ( top pilot graduate of the USAF Test Pilot School ) and U. S. Navy Test Pilot of the Year ( 1991 ).

The Stanford Achievement Test, Form J, was administered by classroom teachers, consisting of a battery of six sub-tests: Paragraph Meaning, Word Meaning, Spelling, Language, Arithmetic Computation, and Arithmetic Reasoning.

The first Test match between England and Australia was played in 1877, though the Ashes legend started later, after the ninth Test, played in 1882.

Based on a statement by Darnley made in 1894, it was believed that a group of Victorian ladies, including Darnley's later wife Florence Morphy, made the presentation after the victory in the Third Test in 1883.

In February 1883, just before the disputed Fourth Test, a velvet bag made by Mrs Ann Fletcher, the daughter of Joseph Hines Clarke and Marion Wright, both of Dublin, was given to Bligh to contain the urn.

Larwood was forced by the MCC to either apologise or be removed from the Test side.

As in 1930, the 1934 series was decided in the final Test at The Oval.

In the timeless Fifth Test at The Oval, the highlight was Len Hutton's then world record score of 364 as England made 903-7 declared.

Bradman's men were greeted by packed crowds across the country, and records for Test attendances in England were set in the Second and Fourth Tests at Lord's and Headingley respectively ; the crowd at Headingley remains a record, and it was there that Australia set a world record by chasing down 404 on the last day for a seven-wicket victory.

It was not until the last session of what was the 7th Test ( one match having been abandoned without a ball bowled ) that England's success was secured.

Lawry was sacked after the Sixth Test after the selectors finally lost patience with Australia's lack of success and dour strategy.

Australia won the 1977 Centenary Test which was not an Ashes contest, but then a storm broke as Kerry Packer announced his intention to form World Series Cricket.

Brearley retired from Test cricket in 1979 and was succeeded by Ian Botham, who started the 1981 series as England captain, by which time the WSC split had ended.

It was the first time since 1894 – 95 that a team following on had won a Test match.

Australia went 2 – 0 up after three Tests, but England won the Fourth Test by 3 runs ( after a 70-run last wicket stand ) to set up the final decider, which was drawn.

Hopes that the 2005 Ashes series would be closely fought proved well-founded, as the series was more competitive than anyone had predicted and was still undecided as the closing session of the final Test began.

The First Test at Lord's was convincingly won by Australia, but in the remaining four matches the teams were evenly matched and England fought back to win the Second Test by 2 runs, the smallest victory by a runs margin in Ashes history, and the second-closest such victory in all Tests.

A single Test was held at the Brisbane Exhibition Ground in 1928 – 29.

One Test was held at Bramall Lane, Sheffield in 1902.

It was also in 1990 that he made his belated Test debut for West Indies against Pakistan, scoring 44 and 5.

This, his maiden Test century in his fifth Test, was the turning point of the series as West Indies won the final two Tests to win the series 2 – 1. Lara went on to name his daughter Sydney after scoring 277 at SCG.