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test flight

noun

a flight made to observe the performance characteristics of a new aircraft or spacecraft.

First recorded in 1910–15

The 2014 midterms were a test flight for the CounterPAC model.

Early this year a test flight proved that the fuel being used for the rocket would never meet that goal.

Virgin Atlantic was the first airline to conduct a commercial test flight using biofuels in early 2008.

The radio had been stripped out of the ship along with every other instrument not absolutely necessary to test flight.

It was held in an office ringed with mementoes of the epoch-making test flight of 2338.

Maybe he was just some pilot up on a test flight, but his sudden dash for the seclusion of the clouds didn't bear that out.

He felt as if the test flight itself was secondary to what the senator thought about it, what he would say in his progress report.

And in Number One the installations were complete and the ship's first test flight was scheduled for tomorrow morning.

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