Schools of test pilots train pilots, navigators and test engineers of aircraft (schools are listed by their founding years) [1] [2] :
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Public Schools
- Imperial Test Pilot School , the oldest British school in the world, Boscombe Down , England (founded in 1943)
- US Air Force Test Pilot School , Edwards , California , USA (founded in 1944)
- US Navy Test Pilot School, US Navy Air Base Patuxent River , Maryland , USA (founded in 1945)
- School of Test Pilots of the French Ministry of Defense (EPNER) , Istres , France (founded in 1946)
- School of test pilots named after A. V. Fedotov , school of the aviation industry - a structural unit of the LII them. M. M. Gromova , Zhukovsky, Moscow Region , Russia (founded in 1947)
- Indian Air Force Test Pilot School , Bangalore , India (founded in 1957)
- The training center for test pilots of the Air Forces of the USSR and the Russian Federation - structural unit 929 GLITS of the Ministry of Defense of Russia , Akhtubinsk , Russia (founded in 1973) [3]
- Brazilian Air Force Test Pilot School , São José dos Campos , Brazil (founded in 1986)
Independent Private Schools
- National Test Pilot School , Mojave California , USA (founded in 1981)
- International Test Pilot School , London (Ontario) , Canada (founded in 1986 in Cranfield , England ) [4] [5]
University Schools
- Linkoping University Flight Test School, Linkoping , Sweden
- Spanish School of Flight Testing (E4A) , Madrid , Spain (founded in 2016 as a school of the Madrid Polytechnic University )
See also
- List of aerospace flight test centers
Notes
- ↑ Norton, William J. Selected Sources for Flight Test Training (Neopr.) // The ITEA Journal. - International Test and Evaluation Association, 1998. - T. 19 , No. 2 . - S. 18 . - ISSN 1054-0229 .
- ↑ Corda, Stephen. Introduction to aerospace engineering with a flight lest perspective . - Chichester. West Sussex. UK: John Wiley & Sons, 1958. - ISBN 9781118953365 .
- ↑ 929th State Flight-Test Center Defense Ministry USSR . www.ww2.dk. Date of treatment March 11, 2019.
- ↑ Cranfield hosts new test pilot school (neopr.) // Business Aviation. - 1986. - November. - S. 20 .
- ↑ Fundamental Approach (en-gb), Wings .