Who is or was the greatest Test Pilot?

Test pilot

Test pilot

A test pilot is an aircraft pilot with additional training to fly and evaluate experimental, newly produced and modified aircraft with specific maneuvers, known as flight test techniques.

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John Glenn
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Michael Collins
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Christopher Pike
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Mark Kelly
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Gus Grissom
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Valery Chkalov
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Hal Jordan
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Lisa Nowak
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John Young
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Toktar Aubakirov
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Ed White
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Deke Slayton
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Svetlana Savitskaya
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Raja Chari
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David Scott
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Scott Carpenter
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Leonid Kadeniuk
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Michael Burnham
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Kurt Tank
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Alan Bean
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Timothy Peake
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Amet-khan Sultan
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Jasmin Moghbeli
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Nikolay Kuimov
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Geoffrey de Havilland
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Michael J. Smith
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Joseph A. Walker
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Eric Melrose Brown
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Vladimir Ilyushin
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Richard F. Gordon
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Anne McClain
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Georgy Beregovoy
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Joe Engle
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Magomed Tolboyev
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Anatoly Serov
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Mykola Melnyk
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Thomas Reiter
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Robert Hines
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Mikhail Gromov
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Igor Volk
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Charles Bassett
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Stephen Anastasovych Mikoyan
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Anatoly Kvochur
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Joseph C. McConnell
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Alexander Kartveli
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Aleksandr Fedotov
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Georgy Baydukov
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Ed Dwight
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Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov
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Alvin M. Johnston
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Aleksandr Garnayev
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Michael Alsbury
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Grigory Bahchivandzhi
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Aleksandr Anisimov
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Rimantas Stankevičius
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David Pinsent
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Matthew Dominick
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Grigory Kravchenko
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Robert Michael White
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Elizabeth L. Gardner
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Erich Warsitz
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Stepan Suprun
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Ivan Fiodorov
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Sergey Bogdan
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Karol J. Bobko
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Joshua Kutryk
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Category:Evgeny Krutov
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Konstantin Konstantinovich Kokkinaki
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Taygib Tolboyev
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Anatoly Artsebarsky
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Ken Bowersox
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Michelle Auriol
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Glen Edwards
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Aleksandr Viktorenko
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Mikhail Kondratenko
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Bill Dana
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Yuri Garnaev
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Constantin Rozanoff
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Sergei Anokhin
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David Mackay
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Lars Rådeström
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Susan Kilrain
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John Derry
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Merited Test Pilot of the USSR
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James M. Kelly
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Carina Massone Negrone
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Kenneth Ham
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Jean Boulet
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Vladimir Kondaurov
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Robert Olejnik
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Eugene Peyton Deatrick
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Joseph Summers
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Alexander Aleksandrovich Shcherbakov
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Eduard Yelyan
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Jeffrey Quill
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Alex Henshaw
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Georgy Parshin
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Alexey Grinchik
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Kenneth Cockrell
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Georgi Mosolov
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