test-fly
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of test-fly
First recorded in 1935–40
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It could also conduct a banned launch of a long-range rocket to put a spy satellite into orbit or test-fly missiles over Japan, experts say.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2022
Universal Hydrogen plans to test-fly a hydrogen-powered regional airplane next year, "hopefully well before the end of the year," Eremenko added.
From Reuters ● Dec. 1, 2021
It pioneered the Europe-South America run in 1934; two years later it was one of the first to test-fly the North Atlantic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Einar-Paal Albert Muni Lundborg started to test-fly a new Jagtfalken pursuit plane.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ltd,, which has built and last week was ready to test-fly the British dirigible R-100, ordered by the British government.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Moses Lake, the retrofitted Dash 8 test-flew the system delivering the power that drives the propellers.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
They flew more than 60 million miles domestically, test-flew and repaired military aircraft and ferried male officers around the country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2016
Just hours before Secretary of Defense Robert Gates touched down in Beijing Tuesday, the Chinese military test-flew its first stealth fighter plane.
From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2011
Just hours before Secretary of Defense Robert Gates' meeting on Tuesday with President Hu Jintao in Beijing, the Chinese military test-flew its first stealth fighter plane.*
From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2011
The Philadelphia-born son of a Polish immigrant tailor and graduate of New York University's Guggenheim School of Aeronautics, he developed and in 1943 test-flew the second successful helicopter made in the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tech behind a flying car, originally developed and successfully test-flown in Europe, has been bought by a Chinese firm.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2024
The U.S. supersonic will not be test-flown until 1972, and will probably not enter service until 1978.
From Time Magazine Archive
The homemade jet has been successfully test-flown at least three times.
From Time Magazine Archive
California's McCulloch Aircraft Corp. has successfully test-flown a contemporary Autogiro that is safer than a conventional plane, less expensive than a helicopter, and just about as easy to operate as an automobile.
From Time Magazine Archive
With a Soviet SST and the Anglo-French Concorde already being successfully test-flown, what has delayed the American SST?
From Time Magazine Archive
The treaty banned the U.S. and Soviet Union from possessing, producing or test-flying a ground-launched cruise missile with a range of 300 to 3,400 miles.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2022
It prohibits the United States and Russia from possessing, producing or test-flying a ground-launched cruise missile with a range of 300 to 3,400 miles.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 20, 2018
It bars its signatories, the U.S. and Russia, from possessing, producing or test-flying a ground-launched cruise missile with a range of 300 to 3,400 miles.
From Fox News ● Oct. 20, 2018
At her sister-in-law’s, she talked about long-ago summers spent test-flying machines as fragile-looking as dragonflies.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 3, 2016
"I'll bet you want me to quit test-flying," Mayhem said with a smile which, clearer than words, told the Firstman his advice would be rejected.
From World Beyond Pluto by Marlowe, Stephen
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