test pilot

English

test pilot (plural test pilots)

(aviation) An aviator who flies new and modified aircraft in specific maneuvers.
- 2018 October 9, A. A. Dowd, “The Star and Director of La La Land Reunite for First Man’s Spectacular Trip to the Moon”, in The A.V. Club‎, archived from the original on 16 June 2020:
  Written by Josh Singer, who shaped a triumph of investigative journalism into the award-winning Spotlight, First Man recounts a significant decade of [Neil] Armstrong's life, from pushing boundaries as a test pilot to taking that one small step for mankind.

aviator who flies new and modified aircraft in specific maneuvers

Danish: testpilot c, testflyver c
Finnish: koelentäjä
Hungarian: berepülőpilóta (hu)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: testflyger m, testflyver m

Nynorsk: testpilot m, testflygar m
Romanian: pilot de încercare m
Russian: лётчик-испыта́тель (ru) m (ljótčik-ispytátelʹ)
Spanish: piloto de prueba m
Swedish: testpilot (sv) c, provflygare c
Ukrainian: льо́тчик-випро́бувач m (lʹótčyk-vypróbuvač)

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