flight testing

Provides a brief overview of the training requirements, dangers, and day-to-day experiences associated with being a test pilot.

Describes the training and job of a test pilot and discusses the risks involved in this kind of occupation.

The story of the high-speed, high-altitude X-15 rocket -- the aircraft that proved that humans could master flight into outer space.

Discusses the training and work of test pilots by profiling the career of Major Rex Bailey, who tests military airplanes for the United States Air Force at Edwards Air Force Base in California.