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{{short description|Pilot with extra training to test aircraft}}
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[[File:Léon Lemartin (1911).jpg|thumb|[[Léon Lemartin]], the world's first professional test pilot,<ref>[http://patrimoine.gadz.org/gadz/lemartin.htm Léon Lemartin (Ai. 1899)]</ref> under contract to [[Louis Blériot]] in {{c.|1910}}]]
[[File:Curtiss Racer NASA GPN-2000-001310.jpg|thumb|[[Jimmy Doolittle]] in 1928 with his [[Curtiss R3C-2]], around the time he pioneered [[blind flying]]]]
[[File:Chuck Yeager.jpg|thumb|[[Chuck Yeager]] and the [[Bell X-1]], first test pilot to break the [[sound barrier]] at [[Mach number|Mach 1]] in 1947]]
[[File:Pilot Neil Armstrong and X-15 -1 - GPN-2000-000121.jpg|thumb|right|[[Neil Armstrong]] and the [[North American X-15]] after a research test flight in 1960]]

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.<ref>Stinton, Darrol. ''Flying Qualities and Flight Testing of the Airplane.'' American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., 1996, p. 265</ref>