Flight testing is a branch of aeronautical engineering that develops specialist equipment required for testing behaviour and systems of aircraft or testing...

Boeing Crew Flight Test (Boe-CFT) is the first crewed mission of the Boeing Starliner capsule. Launched on 5 June 2024, the mission flew a crew of two...

Eleven test flights were of single-stage Starship spacecraft flying low-altitude tests (2019–2021), while four were orbital trajectory flights of the...

integrated flight test 1 (IFT-1) was the first integrated flight test of the SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. SpaceX performed the flight test on April 20...

SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 5 (IFT-5) will be the fifth integrated flight test of a prototype Starship launch vehicle. The prototype vehicles...

Integrated Flight Test 2 (IFT-2) was the second integrated flight test of SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. SpaceX performed the flight test on November...

integrated flight test 3 (IFT-3) was the third integrated flight test of the SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. SpaceX performed the flight test on March 14...

(F-22) 416th Flight Test Squadron: (F-16) 419th Flight Test Squadron: (B-52H, B-1, B-2) 445th Flight Test Squadron: (Initial Flight Test Operations, T-38)...

The SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 4 (IFT-4) was the fourth integrated flight test of a prototype Starship launch vehicle, the world's most powerful...

development and testing of experimental aircraft and weapons systems. The USAF and CIA acquired the site in 1955, primarily for flight testing the Lockheed...

experimental test flight vehicle, crashes during a test flight, killing one of the pilots and injuring the other. May 3, 2017 - First suborbital test flight of...

contract round. The first crewed test flight test was initially planned to occur in 2017. The first unmanned Orbital Flight Test did not occur until December...

Approach and Landing Tests The Approach and Landing Tests were a series of sixteen taxi and flight trials of the prototype Space Shuttle Enterprise that...

in development with an iterative and incremental approach, involving test flights of prototype vehicles. As a successor to SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Falcon...

produced and modified aircraft with specific maneuvers, known as flight test techniques. Test flying as a systematic activity started during the First World...

The 486th Flight Test Squadron is a secretive United States Air Force unit with a misleading designation, assigned to Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, which...

SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 6 (IFT-6) will be the sixth integrated flight test of a prototype Starship launch vehicle. According to NASASpaceflight...

TestFlight is an online service for over-the-air installation and testing of mobile applications, currently owned by Apple Inc. and only offered to developers...

A flight test engineer (FTE) is an engineer involved in the flight testing of prototype aircraft or aircraft systems. The flight test engineer generally...

veteran and test pilot Capt. Glen Edwards. Edwards is the home of the Air Force Test Center, Air Force Test Pilot School, and NASA's Armstrong Flight Research...

Muroc Flight Test Unit (1946), the center was subsequently known as the NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station (1949), the NACA High-Speed Flight Station...

Verification Test CMCM: Critical Measurements and Countermeasures CTV: Control Test Vehicle FTG: Flight Test Ground-Based Interceptor FTX: Flight Test Other...

completed its first powered hypersonic flight on 26 May 2010. After two unsuccessful test flights, the X-51 completed a flight of over six minutes and reached...

its uncrewed flight test (DM-1), refurbish the flight test vehicle, then conduct the in-flight abort test prior to the crew flight test. Using the same...

ground-tested in 2016, with flight testing to begin in 2017 and certification happening in 2018. Because of the delays, the first flight test occurred...

DRDO successfully test fired Abhyas from Integrated Test Range, Odisha on 13 May 2019. The test was conducted to check low altitude flight capability with...

during a test flight. The electrical fire caused some systems to fail before landing. Following this incident, Boeing suspended flight testing on November...

The 420th Flight Test Squadron is an active United States Air Force squadron. The squadron was first activated as the 420th Night Fighter Squadron, one...

The 514th Flight Test Squadron is a squadron of the United States Air Force, which has been stationed at Hill Air Force Base, Utah since 1973, performing...

Falcon 9 prototypes were experimental flight test reusable rockets that performed vertical takeoffs and landings. The project was privately funded by...