Below you will find example sentences with "test pilot". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Test Pilot in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: pilot
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 12
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 28.2 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 5 start, 12 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "test pilot" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 28.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as air force test pilot school and, air force test pilot whose nickname, force, first and air stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with test positive, positive test, test cricket, pilot program, module pilot and pilot mountain, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with test pilot
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Bell Aircraft Corporation test pilot Chalmers “Slick” Goodlin was the pilot. (11 words)
Iron Man: What Happened to the Armor's Forgotten Test Pilot? (11 words)
In 1945, Lockheed chief test pilot Tony LeVier promoted him to engineering test pilot. (14 words)
Another of Ryan’s previous forays into the superhero genre saw him star as Hal Jordan, a test pilot who is given powers and a place in the Green Lantern Corps intergalactic space force – but the movie wasn’t quite the hit that Deadpool is. (45 words)
Chief Test Pilot Charles “Les” Morris made the first flight of the Vought-Sikorsky VS-316A at Stratford, Conn. The first flight lasted approximately three minutes, and by the end of the day, Morris had made 6 flights totaling 25 minutes duration. (42 words)
On Oct. 14, 1947, U.S. Air Force Capt. Charles E. (“Chuck”) Yeager became the first test pilot to break the sound barrier as he flew the experimental Bell XS-1 (later X-1) rocket plane over Muroc Dry Lake in California. (42 words)
Iron Man: What Happened to the Armor's Forgotten Test Pilot? (11 words)
Example sentences (20)
Yeager later credited his postwar success in the Air Force to this decision, saying that his test pilot career followed naturally from his having been a decorated combat pilot, along with having been an aircraft mechanic before attending pilot school.
In 1945, Lockheed chief test pilot Tony LeVier promoted him to engineering test pilot.
Mr Ferrier was a highly skilled test pilot after earning an aerospace engineering degree at MIT he had worked for various civil companies as a test pilot.
Test pilot career Between 1976 and 1991 he served as a test pilot at the Mikoyan Experimental Design Bureau (MiG aircraft).
Bell Aircraft Corporation test pilot Chalmers “Slick” Goodlin was the pilot.
Incredibly the pilot Lt Cdr E.M. Brown, who was chief Royal Navy test pilot, was uninjured and was able to fly his own plane home from the Island the following morning.
An F/A-18 fighter pilot and graduate of the Air Force Test Pilot School and California Polytechnic State University, Glover grew up wanting to fly the space shuttle.
Test Pilot (1938) gave Tracy a larger supporting part as the agonizing friend of Gable's glamorous pilot while Boom Town (1940) depicted an epic rivalry between Gable and Tracy's characters over Claudette Colbert and their oil businesses.
Chief Test Pilot Charles “Les” Morris made the first flight of the Vought-Sikorsky VS-316A at Stratford, Conn. The first flight lasted approximately three minutes, and by the end of the day, Morris had made 6 flights totaling 25 minutes duration.
With Bell’s Chief of Flight Research, test pilot “Skip” Ziegler, in the bomb bay above the X-2, the system operation was being tested.
Another of Ryan’s previous forays into the superhero genre saw him star as Hal Jordan, a test pilot who is given powers and a place in the Green Lantern Corps intergalactic space force – but the movie wasn’t quite the hit that Deadpool is.
Quaid is again not the film’s focus; instead, he plays Gordon Cooper, an Air Force test pilot whose nickname (Hot Dog) tells you an awful lot about him.
She served as a test pilot until her selection for the astronaut program in December 1994, and just two months after she had been doing touch and go’s at Mojave, she reported to the Johnson Space Center, March 1995.
Sunita "Suni" Williams, an astronaut and test pilot, will fly Starliner for the first time.
Iron Man: What Happened to the Armor's Forgotten Test Pilot?
Nonetheless, on August 7, 1945—the day after Hiroshima became the first atomic victim—test pilot Lt. Cdr.
On Oct. 14, 1947, U.S. Air Force Capt. Charles E. (“Chuck”) Yeager became the first test pilot to break the sound barrier as he flew the experimental Bell XS-1 (later X-1) rocket plane over Muroc Dry Lake in California.
They were looking for the pilots, who were the traditional test pilot astronauts just like it had always been in the program, but they were also looking for scientists, engineers, medical doctors….
Watergen’s GEN-350 was installed at the orphanage as part of a two-month test pilot requested by Uzbekistan’s water utility company.
We’ve already earmarked a couple of new products that we plan to fine-tune before their official release as part of the relaunched Test Pilot program.