** Test pilot Michael Adams is killed when his X-15 rocket plane tumbles out of control during atmospheric re-entry and disintegrates.

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.

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.

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 ).

After a four year tour as a fighter pilot assigned to a jet attack squadron in Jacksonville, Florida, he attended the U. S. Naval Test Pilot School, where his instructor was his future Apollo 12 Commander Pete Conrad.

The British aircraft manufacturer Saunders-Roe developed the first practical man-carrying hovercraft, the SR. N1, which carried out several test programmes in 1959 to 1961 ( the first public demonstration in 1959 ), including a cross-channel test run in July 1959 piloted by Peter (" Sheepy ") Lamb, an ex-naval test pilot and the Chief Test Pilot at Saunders Roe.

After graduating from TPS in June 1992, he worked as a TA-4J and EA-6B test pilot in Flight Systems Department of Strike Aircraft Test Directorate at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland.

Test pilot Roland Beamont finally made the first flight from the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment ( A & AEE ) at Boscombe Down, Wiltshire, on 27 September 1964.

Graduated from U. S. Naval Test Pilot School in 1986 and subsequently worked as project flight test officer and pilot for F-14A ( PLUS ) and F-14D Full Scale Development.

He continued at Patuxent until 1957, working as a test pilot in the Electronics Test Division ; his next tour of duty was spent in Monterey, California, at the Navy Line School.

At that time he was granted medical clearance to fly, and was assigned as the docking module pilot of the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, becoming the oldest person to fly in space at age 51.

A long medical program led to Slayton being restored to full flight status in 1972, when he was selected as docking module pilot for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, a docking between the American Apollo spacecraft and the Soyuz spacecraft of the Soviet Union.

Cooper was then assigned to the Experimental Flight Test School at Edwards Air Force Base in California and after graduation was posted to the Flight Test Engineering Division at Edwards where he served as a test pilot and project manager testing the F-102A and F-106B.

In 1989, Collins became the second female pilot to attend the U. S. Air Force Test Pilot School and graduated with class 89B.

He graduated from the Aerospace Test Pilots School and was an experimental test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base, CA from 1965 to 1966.

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Test pilots have a rating system, the Cooper-Harper rating scale, for vehicles between 1 and 10 that relates to difficulty to pilot.

Following graduation from USNTPS, he was test pilot for three years in the Carrier Suitability Branch of the Flight Test Division at NAS Patuxent River.

Upon her graduation, she was assigned to the C-17 Combined Test Force, where she served as a test pilot until her selection for the astronaut program.

Following graduation, he was assigned as a test pilot / project officer for Strike Aircraft Test Directorate ( SATD ) at the Naval Air Test Center, NAS Patuxent River, Maryland.

In the third Test, they scored 517 and although Mark Taylor carried his bat for 169, Australia needed to bat 109 overs to save the match.

Taylor carried his bat for 169 in the first innings of the Third Test at Adelaide which helped Australia to draw the match and clinch the series.

" At the end of his final Test match, Waugh was carried by his team mates in a lap of honour around the Sydney Cricket Ground.

Prior to the first closure experiment in Biosphere 2, initial tests were carried out in a smaller, 480 cubic meter onsite facility ( the " Test Module "), looking at potable water generation, atmospheric sealing, atmospheric expansion and contraction, and the behavior of life systems inside a closed ecological system.

A dummy LM known as a Lunar Module Test Article, LTA-10R was carried as ballast to simulate the loadings of the LM on the launch vehicle.

Hutton's form continued in the fourth Test as he carried his bat for the second time in six months.

The primary objectives included conducting a variety of science experiments in the pressurized Spacehab module, the deployment and retrieval of the Spartan free-flyer payload, and operations with the HST Orbital Systems Test ( HOST ) and the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker ( IEH ) payloads carried in the payload bay.

The Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Test ( HOST ) platform carried experiments to validate components planned for installation during the third Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission and to evaluate new technologies in an earth orbiting environment.

Shows regularly carried on Create include Lidia ’ s Italy, P. Allen Smith ’ s Garden Home, The Joy of Painting, America ’ s Test Kitchen and Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie.

Test transmissions for the new local radio station were carried out from Wrotham, Kent, on 95. 3 MHz in FM mono, relaying BBC Radio 1 ( at the time broadcast only on medium wave ), with several announcements informing listeners of the new service.

On the following tour of New Zealand, Boon carried his bat for 58 not out in a total of 103 in the third Test at Auckland, which Australia lost.

It was conducted in 1951 and was the first series to be carried out at the Nevada Test Site.

A variety of BTV ( Ballistic Test Vehicle ) drops were carried out at various heights and speeds at the experimental Bombing Range on Orfordness.

AFWL carried out tests of its Booster Vulnerability Test Program.

Woodfull carried his bat in a record-breaking first Test defeat.

Woodfull carried his bat to make an unbeaten 30 as Australia were skittled for 66 on a sticky wicket in Brisbane in the first Test to lose by a record 675 runs.

His highest score of 188 not out, came against came against India during the 1998 – 99 Asian Test Championship at Eden Gardens, Kolkata, in a match in which he carried his bat, in 1999.

However, in the second innings, Katich carried his bat through the innings ; the first cricketer to do so at Test level since Mark Taylor in the late 90's.

On his Test debut in April 2001, he carried his bat for 85 not out becoming only the third player in history to achieve this on debut.

Test firings were carried out in 1967, although the SARH missile's seeker head proved to be extremely problematic.

A number of items in the BBC Radio 4 schedule are carried on the longwave frequency only: these include Yesterday In Parliament at 0835 – 0900 on Tuesdays to Fridays, The Daily Service at 0945 – 1000 on Mondays to Fridays, the Shipping Forecast at 1201 – 1204 daily and 1754 – 1757 on Mondays to Fridays, and Test Match Special during international cricket games.

A number of items in the BBC Radio 4 schedule are carried on the longwave frequency only: these include Yesterday In Parliament at 0835 – 0900 on Tuesdays to Fridays, The Daily Service at 0945 – 1000 on Mondays to Fridays, the Shipping Forecast at 1201 – 1204 daily and 1754 – 1757 on Mondays to Fridays, and Test Match Special during international cricket games.

In April 2008, Revetec completed their first Independently Certified Test Report carried out by Orbital Australia, achieving a repeatable BSFC figure of 212g / kW-h ( 38. 6 % efficiency ) with a best tested figure of 207g / kW-h ( 39. 5 % efficiency ).