On The Edge Of The Envelope – TEST PILOTS TELL THEIR TALES

“You can’t hoot with the owls all night and expect to soar with the eagles the next day. It just doesn’t work that way.” - Chuck Yeager

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There are those select people who have chosen their life’s work of being aircraft test pilots. More often than not, they are high and mighty and dreadfully arrogant. But they are courageous in the truest sense of the word, and without them, mankind would never have flown—and more importantly, flown safely. First flown on October 1, 1947, by Pearl Harbor hero and North American Aviation test pilot George S. “Wheaties” Welch, the first of three...

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