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    The Indian Air Force Test Pilot School is a unit of the Indian Air Force (IAF) that evaluates aircraft and systems for induction into user organisations...
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  • Fedotov Test Pilot School, Russian aviation industry school based at the Gromov Flight Research Institute, Zhukovsky (founded 1947) Indian Air Force Test Pilot...
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    Jeetendra Mishra (category Indian Air Force air marshals)
    Commandant of the Aircraft and Systems Testing Establishment which also houses the Indian Air Force Test Pilot School. Jeetendra Mishra is an alumnus of National...
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  • 1946. Other schools in India (Indian Air Force Test Pilot School in Bangalore) and Japan were established in later years. Some of these schools operate exchange...
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  • CEV Indian Air Force Test Pilot school (Bangalore, India), the only school in Asia which trains Flight Test Engineers. Fedotov Test Pilot School, Russian...
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    United States Air Force (USAF) facility within the Nevada Test and Training Range. A remote detachment administered by Edwards Air Force Base, the facility...
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  • it is the largest air force in Europe.: 51  The world's first black pilot, Ahmet Ali Çelikten, the world's first female fighter pilot, Sabiha Gökçen, and...
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    sent to Empire Test Pilots School to a test pilot for the Indian Air Force. He was a group captain. He commanded the Halwara Air Force Station Base between...
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    The Indian Air Force (IAF) is the air arm of the Indian Armed Forces. Its primary mission is to secure Indian airspace and to conduct aerial warfare during...
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  • The Indian Air Force was established on 8 October 1932 independently of the army and navy and in a similar format to the British Royal Air Force. It had...
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    The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) (Urdu: پاک فِضائیہ, romanized: Pāk Fìzāʾiyah; pronounced [pɑːk fɪzɑːɪjəɦ]) is the aerial warfare branch of the Pakistan Armed...
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    Arun Prakash (category Use Indian English from April 2018)
    enemy territory. After the war, in 1976, he attended the Indian Air Force Test Pilot School. He subsequently commanded the Chamak-class missile boat INS Chatak (K96)...
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    A fighter pilot or combat pilot is a military aviator trained to engage in air-to-air combat, air-to-ground combat and sometimes electronic warfare while...
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    Rakesh Sharma (category Indian test pilots)
    alumnus of the 35th National Defence Academy, Sharma joined the Indian Air Force as a test pilot in 1970 and progressed through numerous levels where in 1984...
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    Barksdale Air Force Base (Barksdale AFB) (IATA: BAD, ICAO: KBAD, FAA LID: BAD) is a United States Air Force (USAF) base in Bossier Parish, Louisiana,...
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    pioneers, but also teachers for the next generation of pilots. The official predecessor of the Air Force was the Army's Auxiliary Aerial Militia Squadron (Escuadrilla...
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    3525th from its Flying Training Air Force to Crew Training Air Force. It also discontinued the single engine basic pilot school (T-28 Trojan) at Williams and...
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    Chuck Yeager (category U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School alumni)
    2020) was a United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot who in October 1947 became the first pilot in history confirmed to...
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    currently hosts the Royal Air Force RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft System) Formal Training Unit (FTU) and the Italian Air Force RPA training courses. The...
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  • Training Schools, the pilots are trained at the Air Force Academy located at Dundigal, near Hyderabad, Telangana. For Officers For Airmen As of now Indian Coast...
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    the Indian Air Force. With a long career of 37 years, he has commanded a fighter aircraft squadron, was an instructor at Air Force test pilot school and...
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    Prasanth Nair (category Indian test pilots)
    Balakrishnan Nair is a qualified flight instructor and a test pilot in the Indian Air Force. Nair is one of the four designated astronauts trained by...
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    Turkish Air Force School plays a great role in the training of military pilots. The Azerbaijani pilots are also trained in Ukraine's Pilot Training School. The...
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    Raja Chari (category American test pilots)
    American test pilot and NASA astronaut. He is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and U.S. Naval Test Pilot...
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    African Air Force (SAAF) is the air warfare branch of South African National Defence Force, with its headquarters in Pretoria. The South African Air Force was...
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  • to the appointment of Chief of Air Force on 1 July 1995. Gradually, the SADC had its own pilots, flying instructors, air traffic controllers, and ground...
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    Headquarters, Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School, the Atlantic Test Range, Patuxent River Naval Air Museum, and serves...
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    The Indonesian Air Force (Indonesian: Tentara Nasional Indonesia Angkatan Udara, (TNI-AU), lit. 'Indonesian National Military-Air Force', sometimes shortened...
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    Kirtland Air Force Base (IATA: ABQ, ICAO: KABQ) is a United States Air Force base. It is located in the southeast quadrant of the Albuquerque, New Mexico...
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    The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. It was formed towards...
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