Mozilla launches a VPN, brings back the Firefox Test Pilot program The Test Pilot program allows users to try out new features before they are ready for mainstream usage. 6.
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Mozilla is bringing back its Test Pilot program for Firefox.
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Chari also graduated from the US Naval Test Pilot School.
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He was previously a fighter pilot and experimental test pilot.
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It was Test Pilot that first trialed features like Containers, which became the Firefox Facebook Container extension, Page Shot for taking screenshots and the Lockbox app for iOS, the first non-Firefox Test Pilot project.
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There, she is Carol Danvers, a test pilot of irrepressible pluck.
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Test pilot Robert Courter blasted through the air on a jetpack.
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Price Wise is available in beta now from Mozilla's Test Pilot site.
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Mozilla today announced that it is closing the Firefox Test Pilot program.
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Like Chari, he also graduated from the US Naval Test Pilot School.
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In 2012, the chief test pilot for the Max had a problem.
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After Korea, Glenn joined the U.S. Navy's Test Pilot School, graduating in 210.
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The team is already working on bringing more experiments to Test Pilot, too.
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Chuck Yeager, test pilot that he was, would never take such a risk.
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"He was probably the best test pilot amongst us in that he had been flying the X-15 rocket plane, which today still holds some speed and altitude records, and so he was the most experienced test pilot," Collins said.
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He graduated from test pilot school, then joined the astronaut corps in April 173.
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Firefox launches side-by-side browsing and a theme editor as Test Pilot experiments
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The battery-powered plane took off with a test pilot and flight engineer onboard.
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Existing batteries cannot provide a useful range, says George Tielen, the firm's test pilot.
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He also serves as a Navy commander, naval aviator and was a test pilot.
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It's like being a test pilot, except with URL validators instead of space-planes.
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The hometown of its test pilot has monuments to both him and the plane.
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Just graduated from test pilot school and we were all vying for a spot.
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Just graduated from test pilot school and we were all vying for a spot.
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Eric Thurber, a test pilot assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 20.
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The Firefox Private Network is the first project from Firefox's revitalized Test Pilot program.
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He entered the Navy after graduating and flew fighters before becoming a test pilot.
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The first new project in the Test Pilot program is the beta of the Firefox Private Network VPN service, which is now available for Firefox desktop users in the U.S. The Firefox Test Pilot program has gone through its share of iterations.
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He's from Charlotte, North Carolina, an Eagle Scout, and an accomplished Air Force test pilot.
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Now Sanchez serves as test pilot for an innovative, lightweight exoskeleton from SuitX called Phoenix.
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NASA test pilot Einar Enevoldson first dreamed of soaring 85,000 feet above Earth in 1992.
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The test pilot described the flight as "extremely stable," according to manufacturer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
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Send began in 2017 as an experiment, part of Firefox's since-discontinued Test Pilot program.
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"The systems on the airplane ran like a watch," test pilot Evan Thomas told reporters.
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It is a replacement for the one that crashed in 2014, killing a test pilot.
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Test pilot Fell credits the aircraft's flight capabilities to the rigidity of the rotor blades.
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In 1997, a man called in claiming to be a test pilot from Area 51.
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He became a test pilot and instructor afterward, then joined NASA's astronaut corps in 1966.
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Dave Carbaugh, the former Boeing test pilot, had the most charitable view of the matter.
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He was also a Marine Corps test pilot and is widely considered an American hero.
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She also graduated from the US Naval Test Pilot School and tested H-1 helicopters.
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"It doesn't make any sense," said a former test pilot who worked on the Max.
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"Everyone's had a master's or had been a test pilot, so it made sense," she said.
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At the ceremony, pilots for the delivery flight to Singapore pose with an Airbus test pilot.
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The failure caused the death of one test pilot, while a second pilot was severely injured.
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Test pilot Dick Rutan made one nine-minute flight from Mojave, California to California City, California.
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Indeed, the idea behind Test Pilot is to allow the Firefox team to test new concepts.
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"That test pilot was Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell, portrayed by Tom Hanks in "Apollo 13.
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While Test Pilot is going away, though, Mozilla promises that it will continue this kind of experimentation.
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Watch famed test pilot Chuck Yeager climb into the low slung cockpit of the Bell X-1.
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They hope to roll out a test pilot to around thirty or fifty customers by late summer.
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Upon his return, he attended the Test Pilot School at the Naval air Test Center in Maryland.
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Both extensions are available for testing through Firefox's Test Pilot program, which you can download for free.
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These two new experiments are now available for anybody who signs up to the Test Pilot program.
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To give these new features a try, you also have to install the Test Pilot add-on.
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Neil Armstrong worked as a test pilot at NASA for years before he went to the moon.
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During a test pilot in Israel, where Waze was founded, the company took a 15 percent cut.
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In 1961, Collins was a student at the Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
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It was actually his reputation as a top test pilot that directly led to him becoming an astronaut.
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Perhaps fine for a test pilot without a family, but you wouldn't recommend it for 300 commercial passengers.
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Then a test pilot drove the car into the grid at medium speed, and finally at normal speed.
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Test Pilot is Mozilla's program for experimenting with some of its more outlandish ideas for Firefox and beyond.
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He began his career with the Air Force, and served as a fighter pilot, test pilot and colonel.
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She is a retired Navy captain and test pilot and was selected as a NASA astronaut in 1998.
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Before joining NASA, Worden was a test pilot, instructor and colonel in the US Air Force, Bridenstine said.
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Women had previously been excluded because all astronaut applicants were required to have military jet test pilot experience.
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In preparation for the launch-day US audience, Disney ran a test pilot of Disney+ in The Netherlands.
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YOU INTERVIEW ANY ENGINEER YOU WANT TO, ANY TEST PILOT WE WANT TO FIND OUT EXACTLY WHAT'S HAPPENED HERE.
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Mackay, an ex-Royal Air Force test pilot and Virgin Atlantic captain, was joined by pilot Mike "Sooch" Masucci.
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On October 14th, famed test pilot Chuck Yeager climbed into the low slung cockpit of the Bell X-1.
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So he transitioned by working for the government as a test pilot while coaching golf in his spare time.
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That's what Chris Guarente, chief test pilot for Scaled Composites, tells me as I take Stratolaunch to the skies.
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He served more than 1663 years in the US Marine Corps as a fighter pilot and a test pilot.
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"It's like Chuck Yeager chasing demons beyond the sound barrier," she said, referring to the famed American test pilot.
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When I mentioned this to Larry Rockliff, a former Canadian military and Airbus test pilot, he shrugged me off.
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He was also a developmental test pilot on F-15 models while working on his master's in aerospace engineering.
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Because Dickson is not a test pilot, he will not be in the cockpit during the Max recertification flight.
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Then he attended test pilot school at Edwards Air Force Base, and realized his dream might be within reach.
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Glenn was a Marine Corps test pilot when he was chosen to be one of the seven original U.S. astronauts.
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Her older brother, Dwayne, is a Nietzsche devotee who's taken a vow of silence until he becomes a test pilot.
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According to NASA, he graduated from the US Air Force Test Pilot School with a master's in flight test engineering.
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Much of that smoothness comes from the skills of the pilot at the controls: Airbus experimental test pilot Olivier Gensse.
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After Korea, Glenn became a test pilot, setting a transcontinental speed record from Los Angeles to New York in 1957.
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Honeywell's senior test pilot talks me through the upcoming trip in the Beechcraft King Air C90, which I'll be piloting.
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"With that training solution, we change the entire method of training students," says Lockheed chief test pilot, Mark "Red" Ward.
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That means answering a lot of "what if" questions, says Pete Field, an aviation consultant and former Navy test pilot.
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By age 16 he was competing as a professional drone racer and acting as a test pilot for new aircraft.
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The aircraft, called the Icon A5, was involved in a crash that killed its chief test pilot earlier in May.
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According to my test pilot, the technology available in Vision Jet cockpit far surpassed what commercial pilots have access to.
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Earlier this week, internal text messages sent by a senior Boeing test pilot were reported by The New York Times.
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Clearly, Mozilla was getting valuable feedback from the Test Pilot users, who were surely among the most dedicated Firefox fans.
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It's a Test Pilot project because the team wants to fine-tune it a bit more before its public release.
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He was admitted to flight-training school, joined the Air Force, flew jet fighters and served as a test pilot.
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At first, they planned to just run a small test pilot of a few of the Dutch samples through VirScan.
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He put his life on the line again as a military test pilot in the early days of supersonic flight.
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That, said Lawless, is why this is a small test pilot, although he admitted he already expects it to expand.
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A test pilot who originally advocated for the expansion of the system didn't understand how the changes affected its safety.
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After Korea, Glenn became a test pilot for naval and Marine aircraft and, in 1957, set the transcontinental air speed record.
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The company has also relaunched something called Test Pilot, a home for experimental add-ons that change the desktop browser experience.
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Virgin Galactic's early flights led to a number of mishaps, ultimately resulting in the death of a test pilot in 2014.
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This line of thinking led us to our fearless test pilot Thomas Hershey, an entertainment-industry executive based in Los Angeles.
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"This thing will handle very much like a fighter jet," Boom Supersonic test pilot Bill "Doc" Shoemaker says with a grin.
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On September 29, 2004, a SpaceShipOne test pilot barely, but triumphantly, crossed the 62-mile border between Earth's atmosphere and space.
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The obituary also misidentified the company with which North American Aviation, for which Mr. Hoover worked as a test pilot, merged.
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As a naval aviator, she flew combat missions during operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom before becoming a naval test pilot.
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In May, Jon Karkow, Icon's chief test pilot who was responsible for the plane's design, died in a crash in California.
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Zach Roycroft, 413th Flight Test Squadron lead test pilot for the program, the first Air Force pilot to fly Grey Wolf.
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This is no more true than in Armstrong himself, who we first meet as a test pilot before he joins NASA.
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The company's executives reasserted their earlier promise to launch a test pilot with NuTonomy's self-driving cars in Boston later this year.
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The meeting attendees included Mike Sinnett, a Boeing vice president; Craig Bomben, a top Boeing test pilot; and senior lobbyist John Moloney.
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He attended the Navy Test Pilot School and accumulated more than 5,500 hours of flying time in 27 different types of aircraft.
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The Iowa native has a Master's degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT and graduated from the US Naval Test Pilot School.
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The company has been without a main vehicle since October 2014, when a crash killed one test pilot and seriously injured another.
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That lack of qualifications is exactly how I ended up with my own little fleet of entry level drones to test pilot.
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US Navy Commander Christian "Wilson" Sewell, a top Navy F-35 test pilot at Pax River, is happy with his new ride.
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A test pilot couldn't quickly and easily follow Boeing's instructions for regaining control of the plane, and rated the failure as catastrophic.
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"Therein lies the issue with the design change: Those pitch rates were never articulated to us," said one test pilot, Matthew Menza.
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The second NF-104A #56-0760 is mounted on a pole outside the US Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB.
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Facebook Global Head of Safety Antigone Davis has clarified some things about how Facebook's test pilot to combat revenge porn in Australia works.
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Plus, the company also had a fatal accident in 2014, which killed one test pilot and seriously injured another during a test flight.
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No More 404s may be introduced to regular Firefox soon, but for now, it's only available on the browser's experimental Test Pilot platform.
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Virgin Galactic's last powered test with Unity's predecessor, VSS Enterprise, ended in failure: a test pilot was killed and the spacecraft was destroyed.
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He has a master's degree in physics and is a US Navy test pilot who has served in more than 20 combat missions.
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Forty-eight-year old Gummi Olafsson acts as a test pilot for Icelandic company Ossur, one of the world's leaders in prosthetics research.
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She arrived as a young girl when her father took a job nearby as a test pilot in California's then-growing aerospace industry.
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Bann is an acceptance test pilot for all three fifth-generation fighter variants, and he&aposs accumulated 3,000 hours in various fighter aircraft.
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All strongly preferred landings, including Mark Feuerstein, a retired test pilot who captained the first flights of two recent versions of the 747.
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"The flight was a success," Ed Wilson, the new chief test pilot for the Max, said in a news release at the time.
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Mozilla says it'll actually experiment more now, but it remains to be seen how exactly it will do so without the Test Pilot program.
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Mozilla's Test Pilot program for Firefox has long been the organization's way to trial some of its more experimental ideas for new browser features.
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If this sounds a bit familiar, that's probably because the Notes browser plugin itself is a Test Pilot experiment that launched back in 2017.
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After the Korean War, Glenn remained in the military as a test pilot, flying supersonic aircraft and other state-of-the-art military models.
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The former U.S. Navy test pilot was the ninth person to set foot on the moon, an experience shared by three others after Young.
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And now, he's got a gig ensuring his successors won't face the same dangers: He's the chief test pilot in Sikorsky's autonomous helicopter program.
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Nick Hague spent 20 years dreaming of getting into space, first as an Air Force test pilot, then as a NASA astronaut since 2013.
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Under the control and overall direction of French test pilot André Turcat, the French Concorde "001" prototype had set numerous speed and altitude records.
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He was well-qualified: besides having served as a test pilot and college instructor, he earned a doctorate from MIT in aeronautics and astronautics.
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He worked as a test pilot for NASA and the Air Force, logging experience on more than 170 types of vehicles throughout his career.
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As the lead test pilot, Stucky was expected to navigate unexplored aerodynamic realms, so that the engineers could define the spaceship's capabilities and limits.
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"There's a distinction between taking someone's ticket for a joyride in space and having a commercial test pilot who knows the risk," Allen says.
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The idea behind Test Pilot is to allow users — and Mozilla's engineers — to test experimental browser features long before they arrive in the browser.
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At the table was Mr. Sinnett, along with Craig Bomben, a top Boeing test pilot, and one of the company's senior lobbyists, John Moloney.
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The test plane will be outfitted with sensors and other monitoring equipment, and F.A.A. officials will be joined by a top Boeing test pilot.
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As NASA Ames Chief Test Pilot Fred J. Drinkwater III put it, "Flying the Avrocar was "like trying to balance on a beach ball.
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Firefox Lockbox allows volunteers in the company's Test Pilot program to sync names and passwords saved in their Firefox accounts to their mobile devices.
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"I think the odds are good that at least one of the two [Boeing or SpaceX] will fly a test pilot in 2018," Logsdon said.
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"So many people even today don't know what women flew in World War II," Haydu, an engineering test pilot and utility pilot, told Fox News.
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If you want to find the real best drone for a beginner, then it only makes sense to assign a beginner as a test pilot.
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Armstrong was a Navy bomber and hotshot test pilot before joining NASA, becoming its first civilian pilot in space during the orbital Gemini 8 mission.
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Private aviation expert Doug Moss, an airline captain and former test pilot who owns AeroPacifc Consulting of Los Angeles, said the helicopter apparently entered controlled airspace.
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From there, he joined the US Navy, served aboard the USS LAWS during the Korean War, and went on to attend the Navy Test Pilot School.
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After receiving a degree in aeronautical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1952, he entered the Navy and graduated from its test pilot school.
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Starting later this week, the two will begin a test pilot that offers members of Waymo's early rider program grocery savings when they shop from Walmart.com.
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Shepard was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for playing Yeager, the swashbuckling, larger-than-life flyboy who's still considered the greatest test pilot in American history.
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He remained in the military after the war as a test pilot based at Wright Field in Ohio (now part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base).
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Not every Test Pilot experiment makes it into Firefox, but some of the recent experiments that did include the browser's screenshot tool, containers and activity stream.
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Dave Carbaugh, the former Boeing test pilot, spent his first 10 years with the company traveling the globe to teach customers how to fly its airplanes.
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He obtained a commission in Navy aviation and after completing test-pilot school was selected by NASA as one of 14 new astronauts in October 1963.
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The NTSB's recommendations are "absolutely valid," says Clint Balog, a flight test pilot and human factors expert with the College of Aeronautics at Embry-Riddle University.
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Ricardo Traven, chief test pilot for the F/A-18 Super Hornet, said the competition is really between the F-35 and the F/A-18.
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When he is interviewed for a job at NASA, he says that travelling beyond the earth's atmosphere as a test pilot gave him a more global vision.
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This is nothing out of the ordinary for Pax River, the nearby air base that has housed the American navy's test-pilot school for over 70 years.
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That same year, Neuhaus, who had started working with exos two years earlier, in 2008, after receiving some grant money, was in need of a test pilot.
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While Sturckow had been to space before as an astronaut with NASA, it was the first spaceflight for Stucky, a former test pilot and commercial airline pilot.
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FAA said that during a recent test of the simulator, an FAA test pilot was responsible for activating the MCAS stall prevention system on the test aircraft.
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Firefox Send, Mozilla's free, encrypted file-transfer service, is officially launching to the public today following its debut as a "Test Pilot" experiment back in August 2017.
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Mr Flynn, Lockheed's test pilot, says that more than 300 pilots have been trained to use the HMDS and that all "have become believers" in the helmet.
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" But when it touched down safely after flying around Washington State for an hour and 16 minutes, the test pilot, Jack Waddell, said, "It almost lands itself.
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Like the archetypal moon walker, he was a Boy Scout and a military test pilot with a protestant upbringing and an impressive command of engineering and aeronautics.
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He might have been the first to break the sound barrier as chief test pilot for the Miles M.52, a bulletlike jet designed to fly 1,000 m.p.h.
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The test pilot was due to launch at some point in 2019 but Wednesday's minutes mean it will almost certainly take place after Brexit, due on March 29.
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You can test SnoozeTabs now by activating Mozilla's Test Pilot extension, which lets users try out experimental features before they're added to Firefox proper in a later release.
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It happened just after an emergency takeover of control of the vehicle by the test pilot, which may not always be possible in a fully autonomous production vehicle.
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Mr. Pino, 61, a former Army test pilot who spent decades in the commercial aviation industry, was deeply involved in XTI's development and passionate about the project's potential.
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Mozilla today announced that it is bringing back the Firefox Test Pilot program to allow users to try out new features before they are ready for mainstream usage.
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"It started to move and accelerate automatically maintaining the runway centre line, at the exact rotation speed as entered in the system," said Airbus test pilot Yann Beaufils.
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An obituary last Tuesday about the British test pilot Eric Brown referred incorrectly to an innovation he proposed to the United States Navy for easier takeoffs from aircraft carriers.
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An Air Force Test Pilot School T-203 passes in front of the sun at supersonic speed, creating shockwaves that are captured using schlieren photography to visualize supersonic flow.
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For the last three years, Test Pilot was Mozilla's project to trial some of its more experimental Firefox features with a group of users that opted into this program.
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And while the chaperones—like Jim Brown, who was once the chief test pilot for the F-22 program—usually have military aviation training, these trainees usually do not.
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Interestingly, results from a case study featuring test-pilot input on AGCAS details some of the ways pilots can learn to work with and "trust" the system's computer automation.
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She worked as a flight instructor, sold airplanes for Beechcraft and Piper and was a test pilot; in the 22007s, she flew an experimental helicopter with no tail rotor.
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Mr. Yeager was also a test pilot there, and in the fall of 1003 they became friends after getting into a spontaneous mock dogfight that ended in a draw.
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"Bob McNeilly was like a test pilot in the Mercury flight program," said Chuck Wexler, the president of the Police Executive Research Forum, a group of law enforcement professionals.
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He trained as a Navy test pilot under Conrad, who years later during their astronaut days played a key role in getting Bean designated for the Apollo 11 mission.
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Mark Goodrich, an aviation lawyer and former engineering test pilot, told the Times that charging extra for non-mandatory safety features has become "a great profit center" for Boeing.
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He continued to work as a test pilot until 22012, being awarded his fifth Distinguished Flying Cross for completing the first supersonic transcontinental flight (code-named Project Bullet) in 2100.
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Ace 1960s test pilot Larry Trainor (Matt Bomer) merged with a cosmic being and crashed his plane, becoming the perpetually bandage-wrapped Negative Man (Bomer's voice with Matthew Zuk's body).
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The Navy later assigned him to the US Naval Test Pilot School in Maryland, where he trained under his future Apollo 12 commander Pete Conrad, an instructor at the school.
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It's Time to Rethink Who's Best Suited for Space TravelThe definition of the "right stuff" has changed since the military test-pilot astronauts of old became the first US astronauts.
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At an altitude of about 8,000 feet over the Pacific, test pilot Markus Scherdel performed maintenance checks and verified the plane's newly installed technology — including a new battery cooling system.
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In recent years, the organization channeled many of these experiments through its Test Pilot program and today, it's launching two new projects through this project: Firefox Color and Side View.
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"Airlines don't want Boeing to give them a fancy new product if it requires them to retrain their pilots," said Matthew Menza, a former 2157 Max test pilot for Boeing.
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On Sunday, Boeing said it understands the outcry over leaked messages from a former test pilot over erratic software behavior on its 737 Max jet two years before recent crashes.
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Being a test pilot means taking the ultimate risk every time you take to the skies, putting your faith in the soaring ambitions of engineers, and your life in their hands.
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Judy Garland's tumultuous 15-year romance with Sid Lift, a former boxer and test pilot, was marked by both career highs and a dark descent into drugs and rumors of abuse.
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Douglas Hurley/ Photo courtesy of NASA Douglas Hurley/ Photo courtesy of NASA Douglas Hurley: Douglas Hurley joined the Marine Corps and served as a test pilot before joining NASA in 2000.
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Proptech companies that A/O PropTech back can potentially leverage these assets as a "ready-made" sandbox to test, pilot and "fast-track the commercial and operational scale" of their offerings.
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Glenn was one of the astronauts who testified at the hearing, noting that women could not qualify for flight status, as they did not have the requisite military test pilot experience.
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Here's how it works: Once enabled through the Test Pilot app, you can browse as normal, and Advance will start taking notes and learning about the kind of sites you browse.
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Advance is part of Firefox's Test Pilot program, which the company uses to test new features for users who want to try them before rolling them out to the main app.
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The company is launching a test pilot in Arizona with Walmart later this week that will provide riders with discounts on groceries that are ordered through the massive supermarket chain's website.
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Ryan Richardson, commander of the 514th Flight Test Squadron and an A-10 test pilot, flew the last A-10 to be re-winged on July 25 and declared it airworthy.
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It will be the first pair of wings awarded to VSS Unity's pilot in command, Mark "Forger" Stucky, a former Marine and test pilot for NASA and the US Air Force.
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Two people briefed on the matter told Reuters that an FAA test pilot during a simulator test last week was running scenarios seeking to intentionally activate the MCAS stall-prevention system.
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According to Mr. Ewbank's complaint, Ray Craig, a chief test pilot of the 737, and other engineers wanted to study the possibility of adding the synthetic airspeed system to the Max.
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From there, he moved up to be a military pilot, then a test pilot, then, of course, to be an astronaut, each step vital to helping him climb to the top.
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The Price Wise extension is available from Mozilla's Test Pilot program, and it currently supports five retailers — Amazon, Best Buy, Home Depot, eBay, and Walmart — although more are planned for the future.
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Mozilla's Firefox Test Pilot experimental program is extending to mobile today with the announcement of two new mobile apps for willing users to try out: Lockbox for iOS and Notes for Android.
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In May of 1972, just over a year before the celestial encounter, an astronomer from the Paris Observatory called Pierre Léna took his own proposal to French test pilot André Turcat personally.
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In "First Man," Ryan Gosling plays a young, ambitious Neil Armstrong as he works as a test pilot, grieves the loss of his 2-year-old daughter, and barely escapes death — twice.
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A first version of Test Pilot first launched all the way back in 2009, but its focus was on studying how users interacted with their browser and not on testing new features.
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The new Test Pilot program then is less about giving users the opportunity to test some of the Firefox team's more eccentric ideas and more like a traditional public beta test program.
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"There are so many things that should not be optional, and many airlines want the cheapest airplane you can get," said Mark H. Goodrich, an aviation lawyer and former engineering test pilot.
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Later, the test pilot requirement would fall away, and Harrison Schmitt, an American geologist, was trained as an astronaut who landed on the moon during the final mission of the program, Apollo 17.
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Proptech companies that the VC backs can potentially leverage these assets as a sandbox to test, pilot and "fast-track the commercial and operational scale" of their offerings, according to a company statement.
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Guarente, known to everyone as Duff (a test pilot thing, I guess), is instructing me on how to use the standard 747 controls—throttle, pedals, yoke—to taxi down the long Mojave runway.
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Sam Shepard, Pulitzer-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor who played legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff and the Rayburn family patriarch in the Netflix drama series Bloodline, has died.
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In those messages, a former test pilot described erratic behavior of a simulator version of the same software now linked to the crashes, and also mentioned "Jedi-mind tricking" regulators over training requirements.
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One man who has made a living doing so is Jason Heaton, a Minnesota-based journalist, who is known to watch geeks as a test pilot for the world's most illustrious undersea timepieces.
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"The flight itself was smooth, which is exactly what you want the first flight to be," Evan Thomas, a test pilot with Scaled Composites who flew the Stratolaunch, said at a news briefing.
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In "The Right Stuff," Tom Wolfe makes the case that nearly every pilot in America, whether knowing it or not, is imitating Chuck Yeager, the test pilot who broke the speed of sound.
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Gruber has been a biologist for the state of Florida, an underwater tour guide at the John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, a professional divemaster, and a test pilot for new underwater devices.
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After 2100 years of development and a tragic setback that resulted in the death of a test pilot in 212, Virgin Galactic has finally reached space, or at least, its preferred definition of space.
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On May 8, the airplane's designer and test pilot, 55-year-old Jon Karkow, along with a new employee, were both killed in a crash while flying an A5 over Lake Berryessa in California.
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In those messages, a former test pilot described erratic behavior of a simulator version of the same software now linked to the deadly crashes, and also mentioned "Jedi-mind tricking" regulators over training requirements.
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The book's narrative is split between Kelly's year in space — a zero-gravity journey of "unprecedented" duration — and his personal development from a child reading "The Right Stuff" into a decorated naval test pilot.
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A second former Boeing test pilot was surprised to learn that the company had relied on a single sensor, as opposed to a redundant system, to perform such a vital function in the first place.
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Following his graduation in 1952, he joined the US Navy, where he became a pilot, flying A26 aircraft off of aircraft carriers USS Bon Homme Richard and USS Ticonderoga and later became a test pilot.
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That role, and Wolfe's book, belonged to Chuck Yeager, the slow-talking West Virginian whose feats as a test pilot made the work of the astronauts (who were just "spam in a can") look small.
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Nine years later and in a more restrained style than some of his earlier works, he wrote "The Right Stuff" about the first seven U.S. astronauts and test pilot Chuck Yeager who came before them.
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Mozilla believes that its Test Pilot guinea pigs will be the kind of users who "consciously choose to use Firefox," aren't afraid to try something new and want to be part of a unique community.
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Early reports by a Norwegian F-353 test pilot indicate that the F-235 is a lot better dogfighter than the Norwegian air force's current F-235s, which the F-235 is meant to replace.
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The company released a video of its 18-rotor aircraft (or octadecacopter) flying around Helsinki Airport on Friday, which shows test pilot Damian Hischier zooming around the runways a few dozen feet in the air.
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By the next day, I had finished it and had found my life's ambition: I was going to fly military jets off an aircraft carrier, become a test pilot, and maybe even become an astronaut.
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In 2017, Lockheed Martin test pilot David "Doc" Nelson became the first pilot to achieve 1,000 flight hours in an F-35 belonging to Edward Air Force Base&aposs 461st Flight Test Squadron in California.
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Garland and Luft, a former boxer and test pilot who had become her manager, were working on a show together at New York's Palace Theatre at the time, and he didn't react well to the news.
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"About 22 years ago, I retired from the Unites States Air Force, and I had the privilege of flying F-16s both as a combat pilot and as a test pilot," he said into the intercom.
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In other warplanes pilots would have to expend "significantly more brainpower" assimilating data from multiple cockpit display screens, some of them not in their line of sight, says Billie Flynn, a test pilot for Lockheed Martin.
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But Shoemaker isn't a Silicon Valley startup commentator, he's a test pilot, and his perspective is that of someone who has worked on and flown dozens of aircraft, including supersonic ones, over his decades-long career.
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CNBC's Jim Cramer on Monday ripped into Boeing following the leak of messages from a former test pilot expressing concern about the 737 Max two years before the first deadly crash involving the now-grounded jet.
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Mozilla today announced that its Firefox Private Network (FPN), which lets you encrypt your Firefox connections, is now in an extended beta after a few months of relatively limited testing in the Firefox Test Pilot program.
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Marina L. Popovich, a test pilot who broke more than 19913 flying records and who was the first Soviet woman to break the sound barrier, died in the Krasnodar region of southern Russia on Nov. 21991.
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Then, when the team deploys in a set of explorer pods to navigate an unpredictable asteroid cluster, he presumes he knows the vehicles better than her, even though she was the original test pilot for the pods.
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Apple has conducted a test pilot of its payment system at a Chevron station in the Bay Area, but the partnership with ExxonMobil is the first real availability of Apple Pay at a major gas station chain.
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Alphabet-owned self-driving vehicle company Waymo is starting a test pilot program in Phoenix that will allow Walmart customers to use its autonomous car service to pick up groceries at stores as soon as this week.
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"The opportunity to fly in a new vehicle is any test pilot and astronaut's dream," Mike Hopkins, an Air Force colonel who will fly aboard the Crew Dragon on its first long-term mission, wrote on Twitter.
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When Mr. Bean, a former Navy test pilot, left NASA in 269, he drew on a longstanding interest in painting to become a full-time artist, creating images of the era when science fiction morphed into reality.
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Meanwhile, if an accident were to occur, like in 22014 when a Virgin Galactic test pilot was killed, it's also not dictated by law who would be in charge of investigating the cause and recommending remedial actions.
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Pure performance show of an F-16 BM Block 15 which belongs to 11 th Squadron "Arrows" - Pakistan Air Force, by TAI Test Pilot Murat KELEŞ (Pilot in Command) and Murat ÖZPALA ( Rear Seat Pilot)… Open kinja-labs.
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Mozilla launched a new project on its Test Pilot platform this week that replaces missing web pages with archived entries for the site in question, giving users a glimpse at what would've been there if they'd searched before.
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After leaving the Air Force (the successor to the Army Air Forces), Mr. Hoover became a test pilot for General Motors and then North American Aviation, a Los Angeles-based military contractor that later merged with Rockwell-Standard.
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The book, adapted into a film in 1983 with a cast that included Sam Shepard, Dennis Quaid and Ed Harris, made the test pilot Chuck Yeager a cultural hero and added yet another phrase to the English language.
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"Certainly, the industry is aware and has been for decades, that the introduction of automation is a double-edged sword," said Clint Balog, a former test pilot who researches human performance, cognition, and error at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
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Though Shepard didn't physically resemble Chuck Yeager, the real-life test pilot who most embodied the movie's eponymous "Right Stuff," the actor-playwright's sense of cool evoked the original's no-sweat bravado and prickly, let's-get-it-done resolve.
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Today, the organization is announcing two new Test Pilot projects: Price Wise, which lets you track the price of items in online stores, and Email Tabs, a tool for making it easier to send links to people by email.
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Boeing said on Sunday it understood the outcry over leaked messages from a former test pilot over erratic software behavior on its 153 Max jet two years before recent crashes, and added it was still investigating what they meant.
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Abdul Hadi Barakzai, military attaché at the embassy of Afghanistan; and Phillip "Convoy" Clay, test pilot for the Navy's Imminent Fury/Combat Dragon technology demonstration will discuss "Light Attack Aviation: A Current Operational Partner Perspective," at 28503:22019 a.m.
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Josh Cassada/Photo courtesy NASA Josh Cassada/Photo courtesy NASA Josh Cassada: From his home in Minnesota to a career in the Navy, commander and test pilot Josh Cassada has spent more than 20093,500 flight hours in more than 40 aircraft.
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Reuters was given rare access at Houston's Johnson Space Center to NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Mike Fincke, and Boeing astronaut and test pilot Christopher Ferguson, who will crew the ISS mission, along with other astronauts training for future missions.
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In his complaint, Ewbank alleged that a chief test pilot of the 1893 Max and other engineers wanted to study the possibility of installing synthetic airspeed, a new system that calculates airspeed using different data, to the plane, the Times reported.
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Flying as a U.S. Naval test pilot, Glenn took off in a Vought F8U Crusader from Los Alamitos Naval Air Station, near Los Angeles, and landed at Floyd Bennett Field, in Brooklyn, N.Y., just over three hours and 23 minutes later.
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And today is a good day to give Firefox a new try because the team just launched three new Test Pilot experiments that bring voice search, built-in note taking and a tool for sending large files to the browser.
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As a test pilot, he would be awarded another DFC for the record-breaking "Project Bullet" cross-country flight where he averaged a speed of 725 mph in order to prove the durability of a jet engine at that high speed.
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"I may be the first female developmental test pilot (in the F-35), but (pilots) are just one small part of the test enterprise," said Winiecki, adding that her California squadron also has female test directors, engineers and maintenance workers.
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Wolfe came up with "radical chic" to brand pretentious liberals, the "me decade" to sum up the self-indulgence of the 19303s and the "right stuff" to quantify intangible characteristics of the first U.S. astronauts and their test pilot predecessors.
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"There's nothing like it out there," says Commander Bill "Doc" Shoemaker (Ret.), chief test pilot for Boom Supersonic, the startup aiming to make a passenger airliner for transoceanic flights at speeds (as you might guess from the name) faster than sound.
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"The difference with the newly relaunched Test Pilot program is that these products and services may be outside the Firefox browser, and we will be far more polished, and just one step shy of general public release," the team explains.
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Bann is an acceptance test pilot for all three fifth-generation fighter variants; he&aposs currently assigned to the Defense Contract Management Agency at Lockheed Martin&aposs F-35 production facility in Fort Worth, Texas, according to a news release.
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Overcoming hurdles presented by both her gender and her diminutive height, she attained the rank of colonel in the Soviet Air Force as a test pilot, setting dozens of flying records for distance and speed, some of which still stand.
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Eric Melrose Brown, a renowned British Navy test pilot who shattered records and made history with exploits that advanced Allied fighter power in World War II and quests for jet propulsion and supersonic speeds in postwar aviation, died on Sunday in southern England.
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You probably best know the 52-year-old former United States Navy test pilot from his prolific photography, including an Instagram feed full of incredible shots of the Earth and other celestial bodies, from arguably one of the greatest vantage points around.
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According to The New York Times, Jacob has a desire to be president one day (that, or a test pilot), and thanks to President Obama and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, this is no longer a pipe dream for many boys and girls.
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The first effort in this arena, a new functionality called Activity Stream that helps users more intuitively interact with their history and bookmarks, graduated from Test Pilot and shipped out with the new Firefox Quantum browser in November of this past year.
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"It's been said you don't really have a fighter until you can actually hit a target ... this successful test demonstrates the combat capability the F-35 will bring to the U.S. military and our allies," said U.S. Air Force test pilot, Maj.
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Reuters also reported on Friday that Forkner was grappling with a number of software problems with the flight simulator itself, according to a former Boeing test pilot who analyzed the transcript and who had direct knowledge of the flight simulator at the time.
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He was also a Marine who defended his country in war; a test pilot who flew the first transcontinental flight that averaged supersonic speed; a United States senator who served with both distinction and integrity; and an educator at Ohio State University.
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The pusher prop can also be reversed very quickly to provide negative thrust for quick braking power, and then turned off for a quieter sound signature, said Bill Fell, a former Army aviator and senior experimental test pilot for Raider and Defiant.
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Owing a considerable debt to "The Right Stuff," the 1983 movie about the Mercury 7 astronauts, "First Man" introduces Armstrong as a steely test pilot, albeit one who is at a bit of a crossroads when he's accepted into the astronaut corps.
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Bean, 211, a former U.S. Navy test pilot who became one of only 12 people ever to set foot on the moon, died at Houston Methodist Hospital, his family said in a statement released by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
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Kitty Hawk ran this test pilot at a lake near San Francisco, the New York Times reports, and as you can see it resembles more a motorcycle than a car per se, with an open-air design and pontoons to facilitate its water landing.
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"I'd send them down in a heartbeat because they're very, very good" US Air Force test pilot Raven LeClair said a test conducted last week, when the F-35 successfully used a missile to destroy a flying drone, helps prove it's ready for combat.
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But others say the calculation changes when the person killed is not a test pilot, but instead a famous movie star or a soccer mom, and that, regardless of which company experiences the accident, the blowback is likely to be felt across the entire industry.
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Captain Brown, a Scot who flew combat missions over Britain, Continental Europe and the Atlantic, and who was the Royal Navy's chief test pilot for many years, retired from active duty in 1970, after 31 years of service, a hero to generations of military and aviation enthusiasts.
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The service will debut in a test pilot set to begin this summer, under GM's Maven mobility sub-brand, per the report, and will allow GM car owners to list their vehicles on the platform for short-term rental by other users when not in use.
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U.S. planemaker Boeing is under growing pressure to explain what it knew about 737 MAX problems before the aircraft entered service, especially after a Reuters report on messages from a former test pilot describing erratic software behavior on the 737 MAX jet two years before recent crashes.
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"After 10 years since first flight, with our first opportunity to demonstrate the capabilities and the maneuverability of the F-35, we are going to crush years of misinformation about what this aircraft is capable of doing," Billie Flynn, the test pilot in Paris told Aviation Week.
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I was on a carrier in the Pacific, just about to come back to the States for some test pilot work, and when Sputnik went up I realized humans were going to be right behind it, so I started orienting my career toward that at that time.
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Born on March 15, 19753, in Wheeler, Texas, Bean was a test pilot in the US Navy when NASA selected him and 13 others in October 1963 for training to become the third group of NASA astronauts, according to the family obituary shared by the space agency.
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But life is long and movies are short, though rarely as short as they should be, and Chazelle begins with the adult Armstrong, now a test pilot, zooming upward at the controls of a not quite controllable X-15—an airplane with ambitions to be a rocket.
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"It's all self-contained back here; you can take significant combat damage back here, and if you lose the prop, you are still a 150-knot machine," Ed Henderscheid, former US Army AH-64 Apache pilot and Boeing's lead test pilot for Defiant, told defense reporters recently.
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He was caught in Germany and arrested by the Gestapo as the war began in 13, but after several days of interrogation he was released at the Swiss border as a harmless exchange student — only to become a major asset to the Allies as a combat and test pilot.
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Related: Sam Shepard, Pulitzer-winning playwright and actor, dead at 73 A taciturn, Marlboro Man-type demeanor defined Shepard as an actor, including what's likely his most iconic performance as test pilot Chuck Yeager in "The Right Stuff," the 1983 movie that earned him an Academy Award nomination.
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The very first to do so, the test pilot Jack Waddell, described it as "a pilot's dream" and a "two-finger airplane" — one that can be flown with just the forefinger and thumb on the control wheel; it is hard to imagine higher praise for such an enormous aircraft.
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I followed the paths of the characters in the book as closely as I could — joined the Navy, became a naval aviator, qualified to fly jets off an aircraft carrier, was accepted into the Navy test pilot school at the Patuxent River air station, where "The Right Stuff" begins.
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Credit Suisse and UBS downgraded the shares to neutral from buy on Monday with both citing the news that broke on Friday that a Boeing test pilot had warned about problems with the 737 Max system implicated in two deadly crashes and said he had "unknowingly" lied to regulators.
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Some experts predicted that people who want to go to space understand the risk and will still want to fly after a deadly incident, pointing to the fact that people are still lining up to fly with Virgin Galactic after an accident in 2014 killed a test pilot.
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"I couldn't be more excited to be a part of the NASA-Boeing team... It's gonna be a proud moment for America," said NASA astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann, who is a F-18 test pilot and will conduct her first spaceflight aboard the first crewed test flight of the Boeing Starliner.
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Mr. Wheal, who said his father was a test pilot for the British royal navy, came to the United States from England at age 8 and speaks rapidly in a mash-up accent, dropping idiosyncratic phrases and erudite references to the Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky, to Cincinnatus and Aldous Huxley.
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Mr. Wheal, who said his father was a test pilot for the British royal navy, came to the United States from England at age eight and speaks rapidly in a mash-up accent, dropping idiosyncratic phrases and erudite references to the Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky, to Cincinnatus and Aldous Huxley.
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Here's what Paramount has to say about Maverick's story: After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy's top aviators, Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him.
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