Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally he was ready for the tenth and last dive. He climbed to 10,000 ft., leveled off, jammed the stick forward. How a test pilot feels in that final dive earthward "Jimmy" Collins had described in his Satevepost article...
...test pilots are famed and few live long enough to get rich on their fat earnings. Fortnight ago Pilot Collins was asked to name offhand the crack U. S. test pilots. His list...
...Eddie Allen, longtime test pilot for Fokker, Lockheed, Douglas, Northrop and until last week chief test pilot for Chance Vought Corp., East Hartford, Conn. Described by Collins as "the best test pilot in the country," Allen is also a noted aviation engineer and writer on technical subjects. Last week General Manager Edward Vernon Rickenbacker announced his appointment as chief engineer of Eastern Air Lines...
...Bert Acosta, onetime [1923-25] chief test pilot for Curtiss-Wright, famed as "the bad boy of aviation." Frequently in official bad graces because of intoxication and stunting, Acosta was finally grounded in 1929. Since then he has been mostly jobless. Fellow pilots still rate...
...Vance Breese, test pilot for Douglas, Northrop, president of Aviation Express Co., oldtime airmail pilot...