Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia where it would not be dangerous to people or wildlife (see below) . . . Siberia, in the mountainous area of Russia, in the Arctic or in the islands north of Canada. . . Very likely members of the United Nations will be invited-in the same proportion as to the Crossroads test." "How soon?" asked goggle-eyed reporters. Said the professor: "In the measurable future...
...Test pilots, who put experimental planes through their paces, face a potent rival. Airplanes are being tested by remote control with no pilot on board...
Last week the Navy described its version of the gadget that is stealing the test pilot's job. The cockpit of the plane to be tested is crammed with instruments and radio equipment. Part of the gear controls the plane engine, flight controls, landing gear, etc., by radio signals. The rest, by radio and television, reports the plane's performance in the air, and does it more completely than any pilot could...
...plane controls are basically the same as those by which the Army flew two pilotless and crewless Flying Fortresses from Hawaii to California a fortnight ago. But a "mother" plane is not always needed. In short-range test work all the flying signals can be sent from a truck on an airfield...
Structural Test. During tests of the airplane's structural strength, the radio equipment especially shines. Designers like to know how much extra strain an airplane will take. Formerly, they sent a human pilot aloft with instructions to test the plane for the most extreme strains it would get in combat or commercial service. Often, especially in spin tests or pullouts from high-speed dives, something broke or failed to work. Even if the pilot parachuted to safety, neither he nor the plane's smashed instruments could tell the full story of just what happened at the climax...