Abstract

“Learn to Test. Test to Learn.”which succinctly state the task of the student and the graduate test pilot, were selected in 1953 as the most suitable inscription to place under the Armorial Bearings of the Empire Test Pilots’ School. This small Unit, which was formed in 1943 at the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment, Boscombe Down, has, over the past 22 years, provided the formal training necessary to enable test pilots to meet the requirements of the Flight Test Establishments of the Ministries of Aircraft Production, Supply and Aviation. During this period the School has trained some 595 test pilots, 34 per cent of whom have come from 26 Commonwealth and Foreign Air Forces.

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