Re: Where will the pilot/crews come from?

From: Reunite Gondwanaland (reunite.gondwana_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:04:16 -0800

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:32:41 -0600, Earl Colby Pottinger
<earlcp@idirect.com> wrote:

> But are there many test pilots now? In the old days the only way to see if
> it would fly was to have someone take it up. Today alot of computer
> simulation replaces a high percentage of what a test pilot does. I get the
> impression that today there are fewer active test pilots than 50 years ago.

More, probably. The four military test pilot schools turn out over a
hundred a year, after all. Remember that the USN cycles test pilots
back to the fleet, too, even though the USAF doesn't. (I don't know
about other militaries' practices.)

Mary 

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Mary Shafer   Retired aerospace research engineer
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