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	Pilot article - Pilot pilot ships harbour coastal aviation aviator aircraft human - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The pilot on a locomotive is the device at the front to deflect obstacles (also known as a cowcatcher).
		Many appliances that use natural gas or propane as their fuel utilize a pilot light, which is a small outlet of gas kept continually burning and generally used to light the larger burners on the appliance.
		In telecommunications, a pilot signal (or pilot tone) is used as an indicator, such as to indicate the presence of FM stereo or AM stereo.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Pilot (427 words)

	Pilot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Palm Pilot (often referred to simply as "Pilot") was the original model of the personal digital assistant (PDA), or handheld, computer manufactured and sold by US Robotics, then by its owner 3Com Corporation, later by its spinoff Palm, Inc., and now by its spinoff palmOne, Inc..
		Many appliances that use natural gas or propane as their fuel utilize a, which is a small outlet of gas kept continually burning and generally used to light the larger burners on the appliance.
		In public finance, a PILOT is a payment in lieu of taxes.
	www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Pilot (456 words)

	Search Encyclopedia.com
		pilot pilot, person responsible for safe navigation of a ship or airplane.
		The pilot flies his aircraft along a course delineated by the intersection of two radio beams—the localizer beam for guidance in the horizontal plane and the glide-s...
		Young served as pilot of Gemini 3 (Mar. 23, 1965), command pilot of Gemini 10 (July 18-21, 1966), command-module pilot of the Apollo 10 lunar-orbit mission (May 18-26, 1969), and commander of the Apollo 16 lunar-landing mission (Apr. 16-27, 1972), during...
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Pilot+(spaceflight) (382 words)

	Transiting from Air to Space
		During the deceleration the pilot was concentrating on performing stability and control maneuvers and as a result the profile was not exactly as planned.
		As the pilot was performing a turn to downwind in the landing pattern, the one remaining bolt failed structurally and the ramjet separated from the aircraft.
		With the pilot's visibility being restricted (the left window was still covered by the eyelid) his guidance to the high key position was based on radar vectors from ground control.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/hyperrev-x15/ch-6.html (5995 words)

	FirstCoast News.com - Print Article
		The former test pilot was selected as an astronaut in 1994 on his fourth try.
		He graduated second in his 1983 class at the Naval Academy, went on to test pilot school and became an astronaut in 1996.
		On only other spaceflight, in 1996, she made mistakes that sent science satellite tumbling out of control.
	www.wtlv.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=277 (376 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| SpaceShipOne News \| Mission Status Center
		SpaceShipOne, flown by veteran test pilot Brian Binnie, rocketed into space history today, climbing higher than 62 miles for the second time in five days in a bid to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize for designer Burt Rutan and financial backer Paul Allen.
		SpaceShipOne pilot Brian Binnie is sticking his hand out a porthole window, waving to the crowds lining the runway.
		SpaceShipOne pilot Mike Melvill, struggling to regain control after the futuristic-looking craft went into an unexpected roll, shut down the spaceplane's engine 11 seconds early today in the first of two flights aimed at capturing the coveted X Prize.
	spaceflightnow.com /ss1/status.html (2638 words)

	Pilot (spaceflight) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In human spaceflight, a pilot is someone who directly controls the operation of a spacecraft while located within the same craft.
		This rocketry or spacecraft article is a stub.
		This page was last modified 08:14, 2 May 2005.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Pilot_%28spaceflight%29 (102 words)

	Science Fair Projects - SpaceShipOne flight 11P
		The date of the test flight was 100 years to the day since the Wright Brothers made the first powered flight.
		At 08:15 PDT at an altitude of 47,900 feet (14.6 km) and a speed of 112 knots (58 m/s), SpaceShipOne was released from White Knight.
		The craft sustained minor damage, later repaired, and the pilot was uninjured.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/SpaceShipOne_flight_11P (402 words)

	app.e
		Pilot of Gemini 5, 21-29 Aug. 1965; commander of Gemini 11, 12-15 Sept. 1966; commander of Apollo 12, 14-24 Nov. 1969.
		Commissioned from NROTC on graduation, he qualified as a pilot and served as a fighter pilot with Marine squadrons overseas from 1962 to 1965.
		Served as lunar-module pilot on Apollo 9, 3-13 March 1969, testing extravehicular activity procedures and simulating a lunar-orbit rendezvous with the command module.
	history.nasa.gov /SP-4208/app.e.htm (843 words)

	JS Online: Crew of the Columbia
		Spaceflight experience: Pilot on STS-96 Discovery in 1999, a 10-day mission during which the crew performed the first docking with the international space station and delivered 4 tons of logistics and supplies.
		Spaceflight experience: STS-89 (1998), the eighth Shuttle-Mir docking mission, during which the crew transferred more than 9,000 pounds of scientific equipment, logistical hardware and water from space shuttle Endeavour to Mir.
		Spaceflight experience: She was mission specialist and prime robotic arm operator on STS-87 in 1997, the fourth U.S. microgravity payload flight; her work focused on experiments to study how the weightless environment of space affects various physical processes, and on observations of the suns outer atmospheric layers.
	www.jsonline.com /news/nat/feb03/115305.asp?format=print (1029 words)

	Chicago Tribune \| Crew biographies
		Pilot William McCool, 41, was a Navy commander who grew up in Lubbock, Texas.
		McCool was an experienced Navy pilot with more than 2,800 hours in flight.
		On her only other spaceflight, in 1997, she made mistakes that sent science satellite tumbling out of control.
	www.chicagotribune.com /bal-shuttlebios0201,0,4480251.story (621 words)

	CBC News:Shuttle Columbia crew members (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pilot William McCool, 41, was a U.S. Navy commander from Lubbock, Texas.
		A father of three sons, he graduated second in his 1983 class at the Naval Academy and went on to test pilot school.
		A fighter pilot, Ramon fought in the Yom Kippur War 1973 and Lebanon War 1982.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/2003/02/01/crew_bios030201 (402 words)

	Shuttle Columbia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		McCool was Columbia's pilot and a rookie astronaut.
		Michael P. Anderson, 43, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force, was a former instructor pilot and tactical officer, and a veteran of one spaceflight.
		When it came to the risks of spaceflight, she said, it was not unlike the risks people face in everyday life.
	jdenise.staghost.com /Columbia (6025 words)

	Guide page: "The Gathering"
		The DS9 pilot had to explain very little that wasn't specific to the plotline: you already knew what a Bajorran was, what a wormhole was, what the Federation was, what the Cardassians were, on and on and on.
		The miracle of the B5 pilot is that it got done at all, given the odds against us, given a team working together for the first time, without the benefit of an established universe, and actors who had never worked together before who had zero chance for rehearsal.
		Agreed, the pilot movie was much darker...unfortunately, it was SO dark that we actually veered into what're called "illegal fls," that is, the picture is too dark, and this causes problems with foreign distributers.
	www.midwinter.com /lurk/guide/000.html (10280 words)

	The Space Review: Alighting the pilot
		While astronauts and test pilots have been integral to spaceflight to date, it may be technically feasible and economically desirable to conduct tourist flights without human pilots.
		While unions and passengers are unlikely to let the pilot’s chair go unoccupied on commercial aircraft, a good case can be made for putting a computer or a teleoperator into the co-pilot’s chair.
		As the instrumentation and control of airplanes become more cognitively manageable, the co-pilot is reduced to an expensive insurance policy on the pilot having a heart attack during the flight.
	www.thespacereview.com /article/211/1 (1224 words)

	Project Apollo: Astronaut Biographies
		For the next seventeen years, he was an engineer, test pilot, astronaut, and administrator for the NACA and its successor agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
		During that mission Armstrong piloted the Gemini VIII spacecraft to a successful docking with an Agena target spacecraft already in orbit.
		He was the pilot for the 1961 Mercury-Redstone 4 (Liberty Bell 7) mission, a suborbital flight; command pilot for Gemini 3; backup command pilot for Gemini VI; and had been selected as commander of the first Apollo flight at the time of his death in the Apollo 204 fire on 27 January 1967.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/ap11ann/astrobios.htm (3083 words)

	indexcolumbia
		Rick Husband, Commander 45, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, was a test pilot and veteran of one spaceflight.
		William C. McCool, Pilot 41, a commander in the U.S. Navy, was a former test pilot.
		Michael P. Anderson, Payload Commander 43, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force, was a former instructor pilot and tactical officer, and a veteran of one spaceflight.
	www.wolfdenz.org /indexcolumbia.html (786 words)

	Columbia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pilot William McCool, 41, Navy commander from Lubbock, Texas, and father of three sons.
		Kalpana Chawla, 41, emigrated to United States from India in 1980s and became an astronaut in 1994.
		David Brown, 46, a Navy captain, pilot and doctor.
	www.parlorcity.com /mdwlark/memorial.html (468 words)

	SPACE.com -- SpaceShipOne Makes History with First Manned Private Spaceflight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pilot Mike Melvill kisses his wife Sally goodbye before flying SpaceShipOne into suborbital space and back again in the first privately-built ship to leave Earth's atmosphere.
		Civilian test pilot, now turned astronaut Mike Melvill brought SpaceShipOne down to the Mojave Airport tarmac after flying to 100 kilometers (62 miles) in altitude, leaving the Earths atmosphere during his history-making sub-orbital space ride.
		Melvill, a test pilot and vice president-general manager of Scaled Composites, called the flight a mind-blowing experience.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/SS1_touchdown_040621.html (904 words)

	USATODAY.com - Pilot wrestles rocket to 62-mile mark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was inspired by another flight from a much earlier era: the $25,000 prize that Charles Lindbergh won in 1927 after crossing the Atlantic in the Spirit of St. Louis.
		Wednesday's episode underscored the danger and unpredictability of manned spaceflight, which is so risky and expensive it has been achieved by only three nations: the United States, Russia and China.
		But Melvill, who was the pilot on that trip also, kept the spacecraft on track and made it to space.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/science/space/2004-09-28-x-prize-preview_x.htm (605 words)

	Space Shuttle Columbia 02-01-03
		Rick Husband, 45, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, was a test pilot and veteran of one spaceflight.
		Michael P. Anderson, 43, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force, was a former instructor pilot and tactical officer.
		Laurel Clark, 41, was a commander (captain-select) in the U.S. Navy and a naval flight surgeon.
	www.leisofhawaii.com /spaceshuttlecolumbia02-01-03.html (284 words)

	SPACE.com -- Pilot Announced on Eve of Private Space Mission
		Pilot Mike Melvill describes the experience while Scaled Composites chief Burt Rutan and crew chief Steve Losey listen.
		Pilot Mike Melvill controls SpaceShipOne during sixth glide to a desert landing strip.
		SpaceShipOnes pilot will become the first civilian pilot to ever cross the boundary of space in a completely privately funded vehicle," Allen said.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/SS1_pilot_040620.html (856 words)

	Space Adventures — Experience < High-G Training: MiG29/L39 Flights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He served as a fighter pilot in Georgia and Czechoslovakia until 1987 when he entered the Ministry of Aviation's Industry Test Pilot School.
		Although August's specialty is the L-39, he has piloted more than 30 types of aircraft and has participated in numerous flight demonstrations.
		The son of a famous Russian test pilot Valery Pavlov who perished while testing jets in 1994, Alexander Pavlov was born in 1969 in the town of Zhukovsky, Moscow region.
	www.spaceadventures.com /steps/beyondsound/experience (591 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Science -- Pilot named for first private manned spaceflight
		MOJAVE – A veteran civilian test pilot will be at the controls when a rocket plane attempts the first commercial manned space flight, program officials said Sunday.
		He is a test pilot and vice president/general manager at Rutan's Scaled Composites, which built SpaceShipOne.
		He piloted the rocket plane on a test flight last month in which it soared 40 miles high.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/science/20040620-1523-ca-privaterocket.html (607 words)

	First private space pilot 'ready to go' - The New Space Race - MSNBC.com
		He was picked out of a pool of three test pilots for the flight, which represents a preparatory step toward winning the $10 million X Prize for private spaceflight.
		Pilot Dick Rutan, in orange hat, mans the controls of his 1939 Piper Cub J3, while a friend spins the propeller to start the engine at the Mojave Airport on Saturday.
		Burt’s brother Dick — who was a pilot on that Voyager flight and is now a test pilot for XCOR — is betting on 100,000.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5236958 (1508 words)

	Pilot (spaceflight) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pilot (spaceflight) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		In (Click link for more info and facts about human spaceflight) human spaceflight, a pilot is someone who directly controls the operation of a (A craft capable of traveling in outer space; technically, a satellite around the sun) spacecraft while located within the same craft.
		This term derives directly from the usage of the word "pilot" in (The aggregation of a country's military aircraft) aviation, where it is synonymous with " (Someone who operates an aircraft) aviator".
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pi/pilot_(spaceflight).htm (85 words)

	Tales of a War Pilot (Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight Series) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tales of a War Pilot (Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight Series) Review: This story is very interesting and gives a lot of insight on the conduct of the air war in the Pacific in WWII.
		The author, Richard C. Kirkland, was a pilot very early in his life, age 20 or around that age.
		After WWII he serves in the newly formed Air Force and he is picked to transition into helicopters and this is a fine story of his exploits as one of the first chopper pilots in Korea and one of the first to airlift casualties from battle in a helicopter.
	www.textkit.com /0_1560988886.html (550 words)

	reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Woman pilots were denied military funerals (38 women died in the war effort).
		Leslie Haynsworth and David Toomey have written an intriguing account of how a few pioneer women fliers were of great service to their country, and how, but for gender politics, the US might have been first to send a woman into space.
		Flight instructors said women pilots learned quickly without being pushed, were not overtly competitive, and worked in a spirit of cooperation with each other and their machines.
	athena.english.vt.edu /~toomey/reviews.htm (1206 words)

	Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster: Tribute to the Crew
		On her only other spaceflight, in 1997, she made mistakes that sent a science satellite tumbling out of control, forcing other astronauts to go on spacewalk to capture it.
		Ramon fought in Yom Kippur War in 1973, and Lebanon War in 1982.
		He also served as a fighter pilot in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, flew F-16s and F-4s.
	doreen.mkbmemorial.com /02012003 (586 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| STS-92 \| Pilot Pamela Melroy
		After completing a masters degree, she attended Undergraduate Pilot Training at Reese Air Force Base in Lubbock, Texas and was graduated in 1985.
		She completed a year of training and evaluation and is qualified for flight assignment as a shuttle pilot.
		Melroy is currently assigned as pilot on STS-92, the third Space Shuttle mission to assemble the International Space Station, scheduled for launch in mid 2000.
	www.spaceflightnow.com /shuttle/sts092/crew/melroy.html (551 words)

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