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The Test Pilot School is where the Air Force's top pilots, navigators and engineers learn how to conduct flight tests and generate the data needed to carry out test missions. Human lives and millions of dollars depend upon how carefully a test mission is planned and flown.
The U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School (USAF TPS) is the Air Force's advanced flight training school that trains experimental test pilots, flight test engineers, and flight test navigators to carry out tests and evaluations of new aerospace weapon systems and also other aircraft of the U.S. Air Force.
Established in September 9, 1944, the Air Force Test Pilot School (TPS) is deemed “the center of the aerospace testing universe.” As one of the world’s premier advanced flight training institutions, an impressive 101 Test Pilot School graduates have gone on to become NASA astronauts.
7 apr 2021 · The U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School graduated the first-ever Space Test Fundamentals class April 6, 2021, at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Fifteen enlisted, officer, civilian Airmen and Guardians represent the first class dedicated to testing within the newly contested domain of Space.
17 giu 2024 · Students from the Space Test Course at the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School successfully operated a satellite in space from Edwards Air Force Base.
Scarcely a year after the move to Edwards Air Force Base, the school's name changed once more, to the U.S. Air Force Experimental Flight Test Pilot School. This change was more significant than it might appear.
24 feb 2023 · ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) -- The U.S. Air and Space Forces have partnered to create the new Space Test Course, which will instruct Guardians on test and evaluation processes, in order to conduct robust and methodical system testing on space-flight equipment at the Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
